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Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache in 24 Hours

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Book Description
Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL, and Apache in 24 Hours combines coverage of these three popular open-source Web development tools into one easy-to-understand book — and it comes with one easy-to-use Starter Kit CD-ROM for Windows or Linux.

The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design (Essential Guide)

Posted by IDM under Development for Web, Graphics & Design

Book Description
The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design is a special book—it will tell you all you need to know to design great web sites that are standards compliant, usable, and look great, but not overwhelm you with waffle, theory, and obscure details. It is designed to be invaluable to you, whatever stage you are at in your career, with a mixture of practical tutorials and reference material—beginners will quickly pick up the basics, while more experienced web designers and developers will keep returning to the book again and again to recap on techniques they maybe haven’t used for a while, or look up properties, attributes and other details. It is destined to become a close friend, adopting a permanent place on your desk.

Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

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Review
Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he’s the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation, and everything in between, to p2p@prosetech.com. –sources

Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

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Book Description
The most up–to–date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you’ll find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 guides you through Microsoft’s latest technology for building dynamic web sites. This book will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and it assumes only the most basic knowledge of C#.

The book provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and tuning your site for optimal performance. Within these pages, you’ll find tips for “best practices” and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will start you off on the track to building real–world web sites right from the beginning—rather than just faking it with simplified coding practices.

Professional Web Parts and Custom Controls with ASP.NET 2.0 (Wrox Professional Guides)

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Book Description

• Web Parts are reusable components that extract data from existing Microsoft or non-Microsoft applications for use in ASP.NET Web pages; they can also be used to build user controls
• Presents developers with an understanding of how Web Parts work and how they can be developed
• Examines how to secure and integrate Web Parts into other Windows systems (SQL Server, Office, ASP.NET, Content Manager)

Wrox’s ASP.NET 2.0 Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit

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Book Description

• This Starter Kit serves as an entry-level introduction centered around prebuilt projects that developers can easily deploy and customize for their own sites
• Explains how to build good basic Web sites, including design and architecture, for users who plan to build more complex sites in the future
• Details the key site features that beginners like to implement, including catalogs, shopping carts, images, and secure site sections
• The authors use very little code, but where coding is needed, they feature the simple Visual Basic language
• The CD-ROM includes Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition