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Creating Web sites is easy. Creating sites that truly meet the needs and expectations of a wide range of online users is quite another story.In Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, renowned Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen shares his insightful thoughts on the subject.

If your paperback copy of Dreamweaver 3 Bible is dog-eared or you're delving into the more advanced realms of Web site production, this hardcover Gold version might be just the thing for you. It contains all of the material that the "non-Gold" edition has, and it sets a good foundation for beginners.

Whether you use a high-end authoring application like Dreamweaver, or in the most economical fashion you write your own code out in a textfile, knowing your way around HTML comes in handy. HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide will teach you what you need to know quickly.

Provides a rapid and thorough exposition of the JavaScript programming language, as well as an in-depth reference section covering each JavaScript function, object, method, and even handler. Experienced programmers will quickly find the information they need to start writing JavaScript programs.

Learning by doing is always good, especially if you have good role models to follow. As part of the publisher's "Showing It" series, this book brings together 19 of the most innovative designers who are working in motion graphics, and gives them lots of page room to talk about their work in general.

Wrox specializes in books written by programmers, for programmers. Professional Java Server Programming, a volume on developing Java-based Web applications, is no different. All the 12 authors are developers and consultants — including some who've been part of Sun's own Java team.