Users experience the usability of a web site before they have committed to using it and before making any purchase decisions. The web is the ultimate environment for empowerment, and he or she who clicks the mouse decides everything. Designing Web Usability is the definitive guide to usability from Jakob Nielsen, the world's leading authority. Over 250,000 Internet professionals around the world have turned to this landmark book, in which Nielsen shares the full weight of his wisdom and experience. From content and page design to designing for ease of navigation and users with disabilities, he delivers complete direction on how to connect with any web user, in any situation. Nielsen has arrived at a series of principles that work in support of his findings: 1. That web users want to find what they're after quickly; 2. If they don't know what they're after, they nevertheless want to browse quickly and access information they come across in a logical manner. This book is a must-have for anyone who thinks seriously about the web.

Introducing the ultimate Dreamweaver resource! This Gold Edition Bible adds 10 new chapters to cover everything professional Web developers need to develop dynamic, cutting-edge Web sites with Dreamweaver--including coverage of advanced active databases, customizing and extending the Dreamweaver environment, and e-commerce extensions not available elsewhere. The two CD-ROMs contain a trial version of Dreamweaver 3 along with lots of plug-ins, templates, and extensions.

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the lingua franca of the Web, and like any language, it's constantly evolving. You'll find all the concise, practical advice--and fun examples - that made the first edition a worldwide bestseller, plus entirely new coverage of debugging, JavaScript, and using tables for page layout, and an expanded section on Cascading Style Sheets. This book breaks even the most complex tasks into easy-to-follow steps illustrated with hundreds of screenshots and the actual code. The book presumes no prior knowledge of HTML, making it the perfect introduction for beginners. But its tabbed format and info-packed appendixes (on special HTML characters and Web-safe colors, for example) also make it a handy and indispensable reference for those who build Web pages for a living. Find out why this book is often called the "dream guide" to HTML.