CSS Web Site Design: Includes Exercise Files and Demo Movies [With CDROM]

John Tollett, Robin Williams

The Non-Designer's Web Book: An Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site

If you think web design is beyond your reach, or if you want your existing web site to look more professional, this thoroughly updated classic is the place to turn In these pages, best-selling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett share the creative ideas, useful techniques, and basic design principles that are essential to great Web design-all in the context of the most current technology, software, and standards. Throughout, the authors' aim is to inspire you and spark your creativity rather than sedate you with pages and pages of code. To that end, you'll find loads of real-world examples, interesting illustrations, and the simple instructions you need to implement the techniques and concepts described in these pages.

Steve Schwartz

Google Gmail: Visual QuickStart Guide

Imagine never having to delete or file an old email--and still being able to find just the missive you need--and you begin to understand the incredible power of Google's new (free!) email service! With Google's legendary search engine as its backbone and offering an unheard of 1 gigabyte of storage space, Google's brand-new Gmail service promises to revolutionize the way we use email. In this visual, task-based reference, author Steve Schwartz shows you exactly what you need to know to get your Gmail up and running fast--from determining system requirements to signing up for an account, configuring your system, sending and receiving email, fighting spam, managing email, using Gmail's labeling and filtering systems, and more. Simple step-by-step instructions, loads of screen shots, and a plethora of time-saving tips will have you up and running with Google's Gmail in no time.

Barbara van Schewick

Internet Architecture and Innovation

Today -- following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment -- the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture -- a consequence of technical choices regarding the Internet's inner structure that were made early in its history.The Internet's original architecture was based on four design principles: modularity, layering, and two versions of the celebrated but often misunderstood end-to-end arguments. But today, the Internet's architecture is changing in ways that deviate from the Internet's original design principles, removing the features that have fostered innovation and threatening the Internet's ability to spur economic growth, to improve democratic discourse, and to provide a decentralized environment for social and cultural interaction in which anyone can participate. If no one intervenes, network providers' interests will drive networks further away from the original design principles. If the ...