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Know your audience, plan your site, and make it both interactive and cool
Gone are the days when you could get by with a boring Web site. With Flash, you can add interactivity, video, an exciting and easy-to-navigate interface, and eye candy like custom cursors and flying text. This friendly guide makes Flash fun and easy, [...]

Slow websites infuriate users. Lots of people can visit your web site or use your web application – but you have to be prepared for those visitors, or they won’t come back. Your sites need to be built to withstand the problems success creates.
Building Scalable Web Sites looks at a variety of techniques for creating [...]

Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.

Mastering Mambo is a professional-level guide to Mambo’s most powerful and useful features. You will develop powerful interactive sites that fit perfectly with your unique requirements.
Create attractive custom layouts for Mambo
Build multilingual, internationalised sites
Open an online store for your Mambo site, complete with support for gift coupons, automatic invoicing, and more

Build your own eye-popping site design
Create a user-friendly site, design great graphics, and make updating easy
It can take a flock of folks to build, design, and maintain an out-of-sight Web site. Whether you’re designing a site on your own or are a member of a design team, this updated guide will be your best assistant. [...]

Written for experienced web developers, Professional Ajax shows how to combine tried-and-true CSS, XML, and JavaScript technologies into Ajax. This provides web developers with the ability to create more sophisticated and responsive user interfaces and break free from the “click-and-wait” standard that has dominated the web since its introduction.

This book is your indispensable guide to cutting-edge CSS development–all you need to work your way up to CSS professional.
You’ll learn how to:
Plan, organize, and maintain your stylesheets more effectivelyApply the secrets of liquid, elastic, and hybrid layouts

Learn by doing! The lessons in this book guide you step-by-step through the creation of a project Web site, “Yoga Sangha.” With Macromedia’s official guide, you’ll learn how to use the leading, best-selling Web editor and gain a thorough understanding of how you can use Dreamweaver 8 to effectively manage and maintain Web sites, develop [...]