Books for teaching yourself
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Web Design & Content Management
WordPress 2 : Visual QuickStart Guide Maria Langer, Miraz Jordan
This book will take the average blogger further than blogspot can -- WordPress allows bloggers to create more complicated sites with their open-source technology, rather than blogger which is limited by HTML changes to their templates -- it shows you how to install, use, and customize WordPress to the maximum! -- Web, blogging, Internet Publishing, Software, Software Books
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Create Your Own Photo Blog Catherine Jamieson
Whether you seek to showcase a professional portfolio or just want your family across the continent to see the pictures from the reunion, you can do it with a photo blog. Award-winning Catherine Jamieson gives you all the tools you need in this richly illustrated, full-color guide. -- Web, Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions, Reference, Web Site Design, Internet Publishing, Digital Photography, Weblogs
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Expanding a Digital Content Management System Magan H. Arthur
This is a complete roadmap: covering the complete implementation cycle and addresses almost all aspects of an integrated content system -- it allows the non-technical executive to understand the key concepts and issues; and covers the technical process and business aspects of expanding a system. -- Web, content management, HTML - General, Internet
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Publish and Prosper : Blogging for Your Business DL Byron, Steve Broback
While personal blogs take up much of the blogosphere, blogs are quickly gaining popularity in business as an inexpensive and amazingly effective marketing tool. It's time for a practical book about business blogging: this is the first book to demonstrate how businesses are blogging and how you can use blogging technology to converse with your customers to build your brand and sell your products. -- Web, Culture, Meetings & Presentations, Technology & Society
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HTML Utopia : Designing Without Tables Using CSS Rachel Andrew, Daniel Shafer
Tables are so 90s! HTML Utopia covers all aspects of using Cascading Style Sheets in Web Development, and is a must-read for Web Developers designing new sites or upgrading existing ones to use CSS layouts. Get rid of those old-school, table-driven web layouts -- get up to speed with CSS. -- Web, HTML - General, Internet
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Web Site Cookbook Doug Addison
This book covers all the essential skills that you need to create engaging, visitor-friendly websites. It helps you with the practical issues surrounding their inception, design, and maintenance. With recipes that teach both routine and advanced setup tasks, you'll get the clear and professional instruction you need. -- Web Marketing, Web Site Design, Web Programming, Web Authoring & Design, Internet Marketing
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Building Flash Web Sites For Dummies Doug Sahlin
You can get Flash-y with your Web site -- here's how! This friendly guide makes Flash fun and easy, so you can have your site up and running in no time. Gone are the days when you could get by with a boring Web site -- get Flash-y today! -- Web Multimedia, Web Site Design, For Dummies: Applications
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Secrets of RSS Steven Holzner
Whether you want to create your own RSS feeds or just would like to locate and add them to your Web site, this is the book for you. In the Secrets of RSS, author Steve Holzner provides real-world guidance and advice to introduce you everything you need to know about effectively implementing and using RSS -- Web Site Design, Internet Publishing, Database Design
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Designing with Web Standards Jeffrey Zeldman
In this book, Zeldman explains how designers can best use standards--primarily XHTML and CSS, plus ECMAScript and the standard Document Object Model (DOM)--to increase their personal productivity and maximize the availability of their creations. (The first edition of this book was a DTG "BEST" selection! Must reading!) -- Web Site Design, Programming, Measurement, Reference, Web Browsers
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Building Scalable Web Sites Cal Henderson
Flickr.com developer, Cal Henderson, explains how to build sites so that large numbers of visitors can enjoy them. Henderson examines techniques that go beyond sheer speed, exploring how to coordinate developers, support international users, and integrate with other services from email to SOAP to RSS to the APIs exposed by many Ajax-based web applications. -- Web Site Design, Software Development, Web Programming, Web Authoring & Design
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Perl Hacks : Tips & Tools Chromatic, Damian Conway, Curtis "Ovid" Poe
Like all books in O'Reilly's Hacks Series, Perl Hacks appeals to a variety of programmers, whether you're an experienced developer or a dabbler who simply enjoys exploring technology. Each hack is a short lesson--some are practical exercises that teach you essential skills, while others merely illustrate some of the fun things that Perl can do. -- Programming, Hacking, Debugging, Software Development, Perl, Testing, Web Programming
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Security & Identity Safety
Steal This Computer Book 4.0 Wallace Wang
WHAT THEY WON'T TELL YOU ABOUT THE INTERNET ... an annual best seller, and DTG "BEST" book selection -- this is an unabashed look at the dark side of the Net--the stuff many other books gloss over. It's hard-edged, wisecracking, and often quite cynical as it pours over the reality of online scams, illegal activities, and simple annoyances. -- Web, Viruses, Privacy, Hacking, Network Security, File Sharing, cyber culture
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Stealing the Network : How to Own an Identity Raven Alder, Chris Hurley, Tom Parker, Ryan Russell, Jay Beale, Riley Eller, Brian Hatch, Jeff Moss
Chillingly realistic depictions of criminal hacking techniques -- What happens when the tables turn, and the criminal hackers become the targets of both law enforcement and each other? What happens when they must evade detection by creating new identities and applying their skills to get out fast and vanish into thin air. -- Web, Networking, Digital Law, Hacking, Network Security, Internet Newcomer, True Crime
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