HTML & XHTML DeMYSTiFieD, by Lee Cottrell

December 27, 2010

HTML & XHTML DeMYSTiFieD is an excellent book for people wanting to learn the basics about how to build web sites by self-study. It is a well designed book that starts right at the beginning – with what HTML and XHTML is – and quickly moves on to show readers how to build their first [...]

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Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, by Dan Cederholm

December 12, 2010

This is the second – and substantially revised and expanded – edition of Dan Cederholm’s best-selling Web Standards Solutions. Web Standards is a movement that is gathering strength among Web designers, and is increasingly embraced as the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make sure that web designers and [...]

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WordPress 3.1 and beyond: What I would like to see

November 14, 2010

WordPress is a marvelous thing. Easy to install, easy to work with, free (OpenSource), has lots of themes and plugins. I am a huge fan of WordPress and use it on a number of sites, and I am extremely grateful for the enormous effort by the good people at WordPress.org, Matt Mullenweg, and the other [...]

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CSS3 – Floated images with captions and shadows

September 17, 2010

1. Stockholm, Sweden I am floating all the pictures to the right, just for fun. You can easily change that. All the pictures have the caption neatly underneath, set in a smaller font and in italics. The first is an image without borders. To see the CSS and markup, view the source code in the [...]

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A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization, by Deltina Hay

August 17, 2010

Marketing has never been a cakewalk. The struggle for attention, connecting with the target group in just the right way and creating and maintaining the right brand image, has always been intense and the choices needing to be made always complicated. The emergence of the internet and online marketing, with all its new and mind-blowing [...]

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Internet marketing and the old style marketers

August 7, 2010

I have a variety of ads on my various web sites. That means I work with numerous advertisers and ad agencies.  As webmaster, I am a publisher and they are buyers wanting to run ads on my sites. I have noticed that a number of the advertisers simply do not understand the internet and how [...]

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HTML & CSS: The Complete Reference, Fifth Edition, by Thomas A. Powell

May 28, 2010

This is a comprehensive reference which covers all versions of HTML and CSS, including HTML5 and CSS3. It is written by a Web development expert who has participated in the development of the new standards, and who is very knowledgeable. I was very impressed by this book, which I think currently is the most comprehensive, [...]

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HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible (Fifth edition), by Steven M. Schafer

April 20, 2010

This is a big and thick book – 740 pages including appendices. It is marketed as a beginner to intermediate book on HTML, XHTML and CSS. The book provides coverage of these three Web authoring standards, and also gives some coverage of the upcoming releases of HTML 5 and CSS 3. The book also explains [...]

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