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This book is an excellent guide to Web design. It is very well written with practical information. The reading is easy and very interesting. I reccommend it very much.

"Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites" is the first book on web design to focus on integrating marketing, customer service, accessibility, and web standards into the design process. It's an accessible, clear, and up-to-date resource on best practices for modern business- and service-oriented websites.

Kevin Potts begins the book by pointing out that the internet is now an essential medium for businesses of all shapes and sizes; at the same time, customers are more sophisticated than in the early days of the internet, and have little patience for poorly designed websites. In order for a company to present an effective presence on the web, it "must deliver beyond customer expectations; better content, sharper design, smarter architecture, and more proactive communication and interaction are all components of websites that produce exceptional results for corporations."

In the first chapter, the author begins by outlining what a company's website should be doing:

* Marketing, selling products, & promoting services
* Providing customer support & company information
* Creating branding & market awareness

He then covers planning, researching, and selling the design (or redesign) within the company, then moves on to a brief overview of platforms and technologies.

The rest of the book proceeds to show the designer how to create an effective and compelling site for his or her client. He covers content creation, accessibility, architecture & navigation; essential sections of a company website such as the Homepage, About page, Products, and Support pages; error pages, print-friendly pages, legal considerations, and SEO; email marketing, RSS, and advertising campaigns and metrics.

This book is an amazing collection of diverse information presented in a clear and concise fashion. It's not intended as an in-depth treatment of any of the subjects he covers--rather it's an invaluable checklist of essential tools and considerations for designing a top-notch company website.

"Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites" has become a valuable addition to my reference library, and it is one that I know I will reach for first when I am planning a new or redesigned business or service website.

"Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites," by Kevin Potts,was first brought to my attention by my wife, Adrienne, a website designer whose business, Cloud Islands, develops business identity plans for internet marketing.

She recommended it to me as an extraordinarily useful text. I've found it particularly readable, including the chapters on platforms, content management, standards-based development, and other topics which normally are either over my head or simply difficult to read.

Potts' chapters on content and SEO are cogent, provide excellent examples, and are as useful as any I've ever read. The book is only several months old, so he is even using illustrations from Google Analytics new web configurations.

It's published by [...], which is a publishing house run by and for web designers.

I don't often recommend books for other people's professional libraries, but this one is proving very useful to me.

This color chart makes it so easy to find Web-safe colors at a glance. The colors are all arranged in coordinating groups, so you can pick one color and then quickly try out its "neighbors" to find a Web-safe color scheme for project.

I'm an independent Web developer working from an office in my home, and you can bet that I have Bob's color mousepad by my computer and the color chart in my briefcase. I own a couple of his HTML cards, too. C'mon, Bob, how about some more great products? ...Julie S.

Bob Stein has developed the GREATEST products!

The colors on the charts, mouse pads and posters are vivid and true. These products simplify and enhance any web-based page (including auctions!).

I purchased the poster, chart, card and mouse pad. Don't limit yourself with these exciting new products, grab a mouse pad to take with you when you travel or the card or chart to take with you to appointments or other places you can sneak in a little extra planning time!

These products are so much easier to use than trying to hold open a book and look for the color you need. It's also easy to visualize the colors together and helps to create more pleasing eye appealing pages.

These are simply the BEST new products to hit the market in a long time! They also make great gifts, send one today. They are great for beginners and advanced users alike!

This card is an absolute must-have for web designers. The colors are clear and arranged in logical order. The card is cross-referenced so you can choose by visual hue or locate a color by its code. The color codes are listed as hexadecimal HTML, decimal RGB and "VisiBone's Visual Anglo-Centric Color Code." An added bonus is a chart showing the color chart through the eyes of a color-blind person (yes, women can be color-blind also.) I heartily recommend this purchase.

     The Web development field is growing at an alarming rate. New trends in HTML, programming languages, design styles, authoring tools, graphics programs, Web browsers, marketing, publications, and associations have taken off. Dan and Judith Wesley have produced Web Developer's Marketplace to provide Website designers a sizable amount of information about the latest trends in Web development.      This mammoth 695 page book is divided into two parts. The first part provides readers with a wealth of knowledge about Website design, including tips, HTML programming, programming languages such as CGI and JAVA, the use of 2D and 3D graphic images, a number of popular and recommended programs, hardware, job descriptions, setting up a business, and other important industry news. A number of interviews were conducted with people in the business. Their contributions are worth reading!      The second part of the book features one of the most exhaustive resources for Web development tools available in print today. Check out the listings of recommended books, magazines, tradeshows, conferences, organizations, and online resources. Read up on the latest Web development tools and their vendors, such as HTML editors, graphics image editors, sound file editors, and server software. The accompanying CD contains a searchable database of this entire section, as well a number of shareware and trial versions of some of the programs listed in the book!      Readers will find this book to be a valuable resource for information they need to keep up-to-date on the latest trends in the Web development industry. It's a great place to start. It is also an investment they cannot afford to pass by! How about you?

Although I have not yet finished reading this book, I am astounded by how much information I have already garnered. Written clearly though with a corporate mindset, this book prepares anyone for the ins and outs of web development. Highly recommended!

     The Web development field is growing at an alarming rate. New trends in HTML, programming languages, design styles, authoring tools, graphics programs, Web browsers, marketing, publications, and associations have taken off. Dan and Judith Wesley have produced Web Developer's Marketplace to provide Website designers a sizable amount of information about the latest trends in Web development.      This mammoth 695 page book is divided into two parts. The first part provides readers with a wealth of knowledge about Website design, including tips, HTML programming, programming languages such as CGI and JAVA, the use of 2D and 3D graphic images, a number of popular and recommended programs, hardware, job descriptions, setting up a business, and other important industry news. A number of interviews were conducted with people in the business. Their contributions are worth reading!      The second part of the book features one of the most exhaustive resources for Web development tools available in print today. Check out the listings of recommended books, magazines, tradeshows, conferences, organizations, and online resources. Read up on the latest Web development tools and their vendors, such as HTML editors, graphics image editors, sound file editors, and server software. The accompanying CD contains a searchable database of this entire section, as well a number of shareware and trial versions of some of the programs listed in the book!      Readers will find this book to be a valuable resource for information they need to keep up-to-date on the latest trends in the Web development industry. I'ts a great place to start. It is also an investment they cannot afford to pass by! How about you?

Wendy is a former federal employee turned whistleblower. She suffered a disability from her job and was basically threatened, denied her rights, denied her compensation and made unemployable because of her former work arena in the U.S. federal gov't.

If you work for anyone but yourself, you'll find this book a "legal-like" treasure. It gives you all the information you need about all the agencies involved, and the laws that are in place to protect workers' rights. Wendy also explains how sexual harassment and degradation are a huge part of what American women face everyday trying to earn a living!! If you think that working for the fed'l gov't is comparable to something on West Wing, this book will certainly open your eyes.

This book has eye-opening subject matters for everyone who reads it. I am astounded that the U.S. Federal Gov't treats its own employees so ruthlessly. The author's story has made me question my own American ideals. Being fired for one's disability is disgraceful in this day and age, and we should all be aware of what is truly going on in the workplace!

When I first got this book and read it, I thought to myself "what is going on inside the Fed'l Gov't today?" Then I realized that this book is about scandal and controversy surrounding workplace rights and protections for every American who reads it. I am appalled that my tax dollars are going into a cesspool of gov't garbage, while the federal employee is left suffering the consequences!! Thanks, Wendy Ghannam, for writing this and allowing all of us to peer into the real world of civilian federal service. You are a hero for writing your story!!

Quite a page-turner. A must-read for anyone who spends lots of time in chat-rooms...or allows their children to do so!

Could not put it down! Suspence with a tender touch you won't forget. If this is her first novel, I can hardly wait for what is up ahead!

The author has woven the good, bad, ugly and beautiful into a suspenseful story about the internet and its wide-range effects on its users. I love the characters (the good guys) and wasn't sure who the bad guys were...until the very end. Messages subtle but solid, throughout this very nice piece of work..a beginner? Really good start.

i want this book entitled "web programming with visual j++".
thank you.
i want buy it as quickly as possible.

This was the only book that I could find which was dedicated to designing web based applications in Visual J++. It is written in a concise, yet easy to understand way with lots of good examples. It is not a beginners book but there are lots of Visual J++ books around suitable for beginners. An excellent source of information. It even comes with Visual J++ version 1.0 on CD. Just what I needed

The best J++ book I have ever seen. Not for beginer

FileMaker and PHP are absolutley the way to go, and this is
THE BEST BOOK to get for Filemaker web publishing.
As a "non-programmer" who has struggled in the past trying to bring a database to the web,
I found the examples in this book easy to follow and understand.
It definately took me to the next level.

This book is an excellent introduction to HTML, PHP and the FileMaker API. Jonathan has an easy-to-read style. I found it to be a quick and informative read. I enjoyed how he can cover a topic in sufficient depth without the material being too long. This book focuses on the code in a text editor (rather than a visual editor), which is the best way to truly master the subject. Each chapter covers a specific topic so you can read it cover to cover or just focus on the material that is of interest to you. Well done Jonathan!

Over the holiday break I had some time to read (a better word might be "consume") Jonathan Stark's book "Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9." In a little more than 250 pages, Jonathan manages to do the impossible: He explains how to put the FileMaker API for PHP to use.

The book is divided into four logical sections. The first section provides background information for those new to the world of Web publishing, including an introduction to HTML and PHP. After reading this section, you won't be an HTML expert, and you certainly won't be a PHP pro. But you will have a good understanding of the technologies involved in Web publishing and development, and how those technologies fit together.

The second section of the book provides a foundation for the examples that are used later on. The section includes a chapter on how to setup a FileMaker database (creating fields, working with the database, performing finds, and so on). I'm sure that the majority of readers will find this section to be unnecessary and might be tempted to skip it. However, the chapter does cover one key topic that you should take a few minutes to check out, and that is an explanation on how to setup a FileMaker account (and grant it the correct privileges) that PHP can use to connect to the database.

The second section also covers installation, deployment, and configuration of FileMaker Server, as well as the new PHP Site Assistant. Jonathan makes a recommendation -- and one that I heartily agree with -- that if you do not absolutely need your own server, then using a server provided by a Web hosting provider is an ideal solution. However, if you do have your own server, you'll find this information to be of great use.

The third section of "Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9" includes what I consider to be the most valuable information in the book. This section covers the FileMaker API for PHP (often referred to as "FileMaker.php") itself, and does so using an example Web application that is developed and expanded throughout the section. The application is one that most readers will be able to associate with -- an online product catalog.

The section includes chapters on how to select, sort, and do finds against a FileMaker database using PHP. Another chapter explains how to alter FileMaker data over the Web, including the creation of new records and updates and deletions of existing records. There are also chapters on how to view, add, edit, and delete related data via PHP (which is accomplished using portals), as well as some very useful information on how to work with images (including images stored in container fields and those stored by reference using URLs).

The last chapter in the third section describes a very interesting concept: Developing a PHP application that automatically updates as the FileMaker layouts that it is built on are updated. For example, if a field is added or removed, the PHP application automatically adds and/or drops the field as well. If you are looking for an easy way to let your FileMaker users "self-manage" a PHP application, then this chapter will prove to be invaluable to you.

"Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9" covers a lot of ground, and does so in a way that makes it a fast and enjoyable journey. Jonathan's writing style and "voice" make it easy to follow along with the material. His expert knowledge of PHP and FileMaker is apparent, and he does a great job of sharing that knowledge in the book.

If you are looking for a good book on PHP and FileMaker integration -- whether you are new to the topic or consider yourself to be a pro -- then I highly recommend picking up a copy of "Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9."

If you're ready to propel your enterprise into the next technological realm - if you're interested in architecting an enterprise that is agile enough to respond to rapidly changing business drivers - if you're ready for a revolution in traditional approaches to technology innovation, then this book is the light in what has been a somewhat obscure tunnel. Author Melvin Greer gives a timely, insightful, and easy to grasp roadmap for leveraging SOA, and more specifically web services-based SOA, to realize dramatic improvement in interoperability, scalability, flexibility, reusability and the all important cost efficiency.

A wonderfully concise book without the typically verbose pay-per-word variants the IT book market has too much of!

I'll lend my copy to whichever customer needs to know the business value of SOA - AND whoever needs to realize NOW is the time to go ahead!

Mr. Greer's book is a quick read and blueprint for individuals and businesses seeking a method for delivering value through web services. It focuses on delivering value to customers as a trusted advisor; provides ways of reducing their overall costs; and reveals new ideas for transforming customers' business through web services and service oriented architecture. It is a must read!

I bought this book because of the hype around web services. I wanted to learn what they were and how they were different from simple web applications (ASP stype). This book really helped me understand what web services or e-services are and how they can be used in a solution. The book also spent a good amount of time explaining architectural nuances that need to be considered when developing a web service solution. For example, what security considerations to make, issues around scalability, service registry technologies. The book takes a solution perspective rather than a technology perspective, I found a lot of value in it regarding how to build web service solutions. The last part of the book discussed the competitive landscape (gave quite some history as well) and also shared thoughts on the evolution of e-speak into the web services platform. A good read if you want a primer on web services, their architecture or the competitive space. I strongly recommend reading this book to get a perspective on web services and the much-hyped value proposition before buying one of the very technical reference guide texts available.

It was a great experience , learning from this book. All the technicalities have been explained in simple language. Content is highly practical for new learners as well as advanced programmers.

First a disclaimer; I am one of the originators of e-speak, the technology described in this book. That means you should question favorable comments I make about the technology. It also means that I appreciate how hard it was to write a book that describes e-speak as clearly as this one does.

E-speak started at the end of 1995 as a research project at Hewlett-Packard's research division. At that time, there was no such thing as web services, XML was just being defined, and e-commerce was browser-centric. Our goal was to define an infrastructure that hid much of the complexity of developing Internet-based businesses. We succeeded (watch out here), but our solution required thinking about things in a new way. That made explaining e-speak difficult.

The authors of this book succeed in explaining web services, what e-speak is, why you should use it, and how to use it. Neither too formal nor too whimsical, the presentation strikes the proper balance between presenting facts and explaining concepts, doing both in a very readable fashion.

The book opens by explaining what web services are and the benefits of developing businesses around them. The book ends with a review of comparable technologies, the competitive landscape, and prognistications about the future. These sections alone are worth the price of the book.

The bulk of the book is about using e-speak's Java programming interface to develop e-services. (Read the book to see why I didn't say web services.) Rather than present an encyclopedic list of all the features, the authors take the example of a travel service. Each chapter adds a new twist, more functionality or better security, for example. In this way, the reader is led to understand both the benefits each feature provides and the code for using the feature. All the major parts of e-speak are included, but the reader never feels inundated with unnecessary detail.

If you're interested in web services and how they will affect the way business is done, read the opening and closing chapters. If you'd like to build an e-service, this book gives you a jump start. Most importantly, this book will give you an understanding of the concepts, something that is more important to success than just learning the technology.

Awesome plot and I have never read anything like i; well, except of course, the Harry Potter Series which is 1000 times better than this but that's besides the point. However, overall it is a good read.

This Book was exactly like the tv show! When ever i can't see the eposode,(they cancled the show)i just read the book. They still show some eposode's but they still show some but not this one.

This is the best book in the wold and there is nothing to describe it. So, go and buy it and you will be amased