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"Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity"
by Jakob Nielsen
There's nothing more irritating to a Web surfer than a site with a poorly designed interface. Building quality Web sites that work across the broad spectrum of users and platforms is usually a talent acquired the hard way--through lots of painful experience. In this eagerly anticipated title, usability expert Jakob Nielsen helps shorten this trial by fire. "Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity" covers the ins and outs of content and site design and offers plenty of straight-shooting opinions, as well as lots of intriguing statistics about what does and doesn't work on the Web. If you want to avoid making the same design mistakes as numerous others, read this book first and get prepared. Read more

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"Collaborative Web Development"
by Jessica R. Burdman
If running your development team sometimes seems like herding cats, "Collaborative Web Development," a brief but insightful book, might help you get a better handle on things. Author Jessica Burdman offers a step back from the daily chaos of team development to help you analyze the process from start to finish. She offers clear and concise advice on project planning, team management, and communication without boring you with "project-speak." Interviews with key industry leaders about their personal experiences and a number of brief case studies add interesting flair to this thought-provoking title. Read more

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WHAT'S HOT?
At the top of this month's Web Development bestseller list are a Photoshop 5.5 Web resource, a guide to HTML 4 for pros and novices, and a flashy Flash 4 text.

"Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Classroom in a Book, Special Web Edition"
by Adobe Creative Team
"Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Classroom in a Book, Special Web Edition," like others in the fine Classroom in a Book series, is somewhere between a manual and a tutorial; the lessons can be read straight through or referenced on a need-to-know basis. Photoshop 5.5, a significant upgrade to the top image-manipulation software, now comes packaged with ImageReady 2.0, Adobe's Web graphics application. Read more

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"HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide"
by Elizabeth Castro
Whether you use a high-end authoring application like Dreamweaver, or in the most economical fashion you write your own code out in a text file, knowing your way around HTML comes in handy. "HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide" will teach you what you need to know quickly. Read more

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"Flash 4! Creative Web Animation"
by Brooks Patton and Derek Franklin
Flash 4 is Macromedia's extremely complicated but powerful Web animation application. "For us, the Flash learning process was extremely painful," write authors Patton and Franklin. And since they observed many others expressing pain similar to theirs in the Flash newsgroup, they are now sharing all their hard-earned secrets in "Flash 4! Creative Web Animation." Read more

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RECOMMENDED READING: "DATA ON THE WEB"
"Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and Xml"
by Serge Abiteboul, Peter Buneman, Dan Suciu, and Jim Gray
"Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML" is an examination of XML as a universal data transfer language and the theory behind the merging of the document-centric Web with a data-driven infrastructure. The book is intended as a textbook analysis of the issues, as well as background material for tool developers and others interested in the serious architectural details. Read more

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ALMOST PUBLISHED
Web Development guides that have garnered the most pre-orders from Amazon.com customers--before they've even been published.

"Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0"
by Juan Libre, Chris Ullman and Alex Homer
Publication date: January 2000
Active Server Pages 3.0 is the scripting tool for programming dynamic Web sites. "Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0" shows HTML developers and those making the switch to Windows 2000 how to use ASP 3.0 to control content--to handle complex professional commercial sites by utilizing components, objects, and databases. Read more

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"Flash 4 Hands-On Training"
by Lynda Weinman
Publication date: March 2000
"Flash 4 Hands-On Training" is the second in the Hands-On Training (H.O.T.) series from Lynda Weinman, author of "Dreamweaver 2.0 Hands-On Training." The text explores the updated version of Flash, the popular graphics, animation, and interactivity tool for creating and producing Web sites. Some of the enhancements to Flash tackled here include changes to the timeline, layer, toolbar, and animation features; more Inspectors; and improved delivery of Flash movies. Read more

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FEATURED REVIEWS: "BEGINNING COMPONENTS FOR ASP"
"Beginning Components for ASP"
by Richard Anderson, Alex Homer, Simon Robinson
"Beginning Components for ASP" is an intermediate title in the Wrox line of Active Server Pages guides. This volume is intended for developers comfortable with ASP who are interested in leveraging the power of component-based applications. The two key development languages for components--Visual Basic and C++--are addressed in this work. Read more

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