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Summary: great book
Review: A friend of mine recommended this book to me. I read it in about a week. It was very simple and understandable. Plus I learned some very intresting things I never knew about CSS.
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Summary: PHP coverage is awesome
Review: An excellent tutorial on PHP! I've been moving several ASP files to a Linux host--found PHP to offer great performance.
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Summary: A Great Reference
Review: By far the best book I have found for Web development. Covers the techniques designers must know to create a secure fast Web site. The discussion of CSS is straight forward and the tricks are clever and valuable. I don't program, but I was able to cut and paste the Javascript examples into my HTML pages and they worked. I was able to get a secure site running over the weekend for free! (I'll have to buy a certificate in 2 months), but it's working now. Instructions were easy to follow. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Excellent discussion on Web site performance
Review: I bought the book because of the Security chapter -- which I used to get SSL up and running. Pretty easy process. I'm finding the performance tips the most valuable. Not just stuff on caching ... but ways to improve PHP, JavaScript, and CSS performance. I wish the book covered more Perl.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I found this book to be excellent. It is very rare today to find a computer science book that is thorough, logical and well organized, yet brief and to the point. This can be said for all of the chapters in this book. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn about web programming.
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Summary: Best Web book I own!
Review: I have been working on Web sites for years. This book is a treasure. Most Web developers will find 30 to 50 new concepts they can immediately put to use. I found ways to perform security monitoring using ASP, ways to redirect referneces using PHP, and learned how to use HTTP headers (very powerful). This is the best book I have purchased in a long time.
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Summary: Finally -- Web page techniques that are new
Review: I must own every HTML book -- almost all of them say the same things -- (the stuff you can find online at w3c). Finally, someone is offering something new. I like the tip format -- I don't have time to read 600 pages in a weekend. The format made using solutions I found easy. The book does a good job with ASP and PHP ... I wished it would have presented Perl too. The Javascript and CSS stuff is good -- the examples are actually usable in real-world web pages.
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Summary: Easy to Use
Review: I really enjoy using this book. The information is organized according to my needs, and all of the information that I need is right at my finger tips. This is one that I'll keep on my desk for years to come.
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Summary: Excellent Coverage of JavaScript and PHP
Review: I'm not a programmer, but I was able to take the Javascript and PHP programs and integrate them into my Web pages. The explanation makes the scripts easy to use (though I'm not sure yet how they work) There are some Java programs I will try next that the book says I can customize. The CSS discussion is good. Wish they had discussed XML.
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Summary: The discussion on SMIL was pretty cool
Review: I've been doing a lot of animation using Flash. I had not heard of SMIL before I read this book. The discussion was interesting and easy to follow. I was able to build my own samples in a few minutes by cutting and pasting code from the book. I don't think that Flash is in any danger from SMIL yet, but the technology is pretty cool.
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