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Look to Prentice Hall PTR's Essential Books for all the Web skills you need. All these books feature companion Web sites and share the same great format, so once you've used one, learning from the others is a piece of cake!
Fully updated for the latest standards and browsers, Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals, Second Edition is simply the fastest way to gain the JavaScript skills you need most! Learn hands on, by building actual practice sites that deliver dynamic content using CSS/DHTML, sell products, offer subscriptions, display ads—even enforce security. Best of all, the finished sites are on the Web—so you can reuse the code, and see exactly how your pages should look and work! Go to the Companion Website.
With Essential FrontPage 2002 for Web Developers, you'll learn FrontPage 2002 hands on from the world's #1 independent expert, through real-world projects linked to a live site, where you can see exactly how everything should look—and work! Along the way, you'll master every phase of FrontPage Web development, as you discover FrontPage 2002's hottest features, from database integration to SharePoint team intranet sites. Go to the Companion Website.
Essential Apache for Web Professionals is the fastest way for Web professionals to master the skills they need to configure, deploy, and manage virtually any site! Through hands-on projects and real configuration directives, you'll learn how to download, compile, install, optimize, and secure the world's #1 Web server. Coverage includes dynamic content delivery, virtual hosting, database integration, load balancing, session management, and much more. Go to the Companion Website.
Master Dreamweaver 4 fast, hands-on, through real-world projects! Start simple, then learn sophisticated techniques you'd otherwise need months—or years—to learn. Concise and easy, Essential Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 for Web Professionals focuses on the skills you need most: tables, forms, CSS, Behaviors, debugging, site management, and more. As you practice, a companion Web site shows exactly how your projects should look—and work! Go to the Companion Website.
Essential XML for Web Professionals is the fastest way for Web professionals to master XML skills for building dynamic, portable, and scalable applications. Through hands-on projects covering key e-Commerce development tasks, you'll master schemas, namespaces, XSLT, XLink, XHTML, and more. All sample applications are on the Web, so you can reuse the code, and see exactly how your pages should work! Go to the Companion Website.
JavaServer Pages give Web professionals unprecedented power for building enterprise-class, platform-independent Web applications. Now master JSP fast and hands-on by building real applications! Start with the simplest examples, then work your way up to sophisticated projects, acquiring practical techniques you'd otherwise need months-or years-to learn. This concise book delivers up-to-the-minute coverage of Sun's new JSP 1.2 API standard, custom tags, WAR files, and much more. Go to the Companion Website.
With Essential Photoshop 6 for Web Professionals, you'll master today's hottest Photoshop 6/ImageReady 3 features hands on, by building a complete site that solves today's key Web design problems. Master layer styles, effects, filters, image editing, optimization, slicing, tiling, and more. Every project's linked to a live site, where you can follow along and check your work. Go to the Companion Website.
Essential WAP for Web Professionals offers no-nonsense, practical introductions to the key elements of WAP systems, and the key techniques of WML/WMLScript development. It also contains complete WAP server-side applications built with four leading tools: ASP, Perl, JSP, and Servlets—all viewable and downloadable on the Web! Go to the Companion Website.
In this fully updated best-seller, a world-renowned Web developer helps you master CSS and DHTM—hands-on! You'll use CSS and DHTML to build real-world practice sites that sell products, educate visitors, display ads, present quizzes, and deliver sophisticated interactivity. Plus, the author provides code for handling Netcape 6's quirks. Go to the Companion Website.
This concise, example-rich guide shows Web professionals exactly how to create high-quality graphics with the GIMP, the free open source alternative to Photoshop®. Master layers, selections and masks, text, color management, drawing, painting, image maps, animation, working from scans, using effects and rendering filters—even scripting! Go to the Companion Website.