Author Joe Burns' content and approach have been proven by the success of the HTML Goodies Web site. The HTML Goodies Web Site (www.htmlgoodies.com) receives over 390,000 visitors a month. The site has received over 75 awards in the last year, including USA Today and CMP Publishing (publishers of popular computer magazines like Home PC, Windows Magazine, and Internet Week).Joe Burns knows exactly what beginning HTML users need because he receives (and answers!) nearly 150 e-mails a day from visitors to his Web site.This book takes the same approach to teaching as his popular Web site: know what beginners need, give them great examples and code they can immediately use, and keep it fast and fun.The book goes far beyond HTML basics. It shows readers how to build the Web site features that they want the most, from password protected pages to visitor counters, guest books, scrolling marquees, RealAudio sound, and searchable databases. The book is heavily tied into the Web site -- each lesson and example in the book will have a direct URL to the HTML Goodies site where the reader can actually see exactly how the HTML code works. The Web Goodies site will also heavily advertise and cross-promote the book.

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    The latest version of GIMP (2.8) brings long-awaited improvements and powerful new tools to make graphic design and photo manipulation even easier—but it's still a notoriously challenging program to use.The Artist's Guide to GIMP teaches you how to use GIMP without a tedious list of menu paths and options. Instead, as you follow along with Michael J. Hammel's step-by-step instructions, you'll learn to produce professional-looking advertisements, apply impressive photographic effects, and design cool logos and text effects. These extensively illustrated tutorials are perfect for hands-on learning or as templates for your own artistic experiments.After a crash course in GIMP's core tools like brushes, patterns, selections, layers, modes, and masks, you'll learn:Photographic techniques to clean up blemishes and dust, create sepia-toned antique images, swap colors, produce motion blurs, alter depth of field, simulate a tilt-shift, and fix rips in an old photoWeb design techniques to create navigation tabs, icons, fancy buttons, backgrounds, and bordersType effects to create depth, perspective shadows, metallic and distressed text, and neon and graffiti letteringAdvertising effects to produce movie posters and package designs; simulate clouds, cracks, cloth, and underwater effects; and create specialized lighting Whether you're new to GIMP or you've been playing with this powerful software for years, you'll be inspired by the original art, creative photo manipulations, and numerous tips for designers.Covers GIMP 2.8

     With a refreshingly practical perspective, this book explores the principles and techniques of hosting a Web community that allows your business to interact and build relationships with more customers than ever before. The book lays out a step-by-step plan for getting the project off the ground by showing how to define purpose, establish member profiles, incorporate custom site features, organize marketing events, and much more.

    Take an insider's look at how forward-thinking organizations deliver map-based information via the Internet to help staff, clients, and the community at large.

    Yet all the original style, flavor, and features that have made this book so popular in the past will be retained and expanded upon.