Web Design Books & Web Design Software

During our Web Design lifetime we went through many web design books and software. Some of them we still use and reference, but others ended up in garbage bins. We will not tell you which web design books not to buy but rather suggest which you should buy and have in your web design collection. Below is the list of great web design software and books that will make your web design and web development life much easier.


Dreamweaver MX   Dreamweaver MX - software
Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX is a one of the best Web editors for dynamic sites as well as static web pages. Dreamweaver's excellent visual tools generate code that works across all the leading Web browsers, winning it the respect of professionals. It is available for Mac (Macintosh) and of course for Windows platform. Dreamweaver MX is also extensible, with a huge range of third-party add-ons available from Macromedia's Web site, many of them are free of charge. There is great support for Internet standards, including cascading style sheets, XHTML, and accessibility features and many forums that help while learning and designing web sites. Offers built-in validating mechanisms that make it easy to check a page, and everything is highly configurable so you can specify the standards you want to support for your new web pages.
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Macromedia Flash MX   Macromedia Flash MX - software
The Flash MX software is by some developers considered standard for development and delivery of high-impact, visually rich, interactive web content. Flash MX promises a similar has nested layer folders and improved cursor feedback for frame adjustment make the timeline more manageable, and the context-sensitive properties panel and collapsing, dockable panels reduce screen clutter considerably.

Vector drawing tools, one of Flash's weaknesses, have been largely overlooked, but there is a new Free Transform tool, which combines rotate, scale, and skew options and makes this web design tool an excellent resource. Video has been improved vith this version as well. Users can now import a variety of formats, including MPEG, DV, and QuickTime and easily publish them on the website. In addition, users can animate and script AVI and video clip objects in the same way as bit maps, even using them on a mask layer. Imagine mastering this web design technique :)
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E-Business In a Box   E-Business In a Box - software
E-business in a Box offers a custom-designed Web site, complete with an online shopping system designed to accommodate your products and business web design needs. Included with this development solution are six months of Web site hosting by CI Host and one year of domain name registration. With a custom-designed administration area for your shopping system, you can quickly add, modify, and delete products from your catalog. You can add new marketing promotions and products to your virtual storefront within a few minutes. You get two-hour initial consultation with CI Host's design team, 10 stock images for your Web site, and a customized form for user inquiries, such as order status. A customized CD-ROM contains all the files and graphics you'll need for your Web site. You'll also receive a merchant account that enables you to take Visa, MasterCard, and American Express credit cards and sell items through your Web site.
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Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8   Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 - software
Paint Shop Pro 8 is truly one of the best graphic software for web design. It is much smaller and takes much less resources than Adobe Photoshop.

If you have slower machine then this is a saver for you. This way you can have several applications open at the same time not only graphic application. We normally get photos from the cd libarary and all of them need some tuning to fit web site in development, that way you save, refresh, change the image (you know the drill), and you do these cycles untill your photo gets perfect position and colour or shade.

You may want to use Paint Shop Pro 8 for other projects not only for web design, but this is where we use it the most.

This Paint shop pro 8 version comes with several nice features like "One step photo fix" which is a great time saver. PSP 8 is just a great product not only for beginners but for professionals as well.
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Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Hands-On   Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Hands-On - book
We just bought Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Hands-On Training book few days ago and seems to be an excellent choice since everyone wants to read it. So, we placed another copy of Macromedia MX Hands-On Training book... just in case. So far it is really uniqe in its own way. Advanced sections of this book show how to create interactive, moving elements in your web site, and how to download and use the hundreds of free extensions available online to Macromedia Dreamweaver users. In any case authors of this book are definitely good teachers who know their flash mx material.
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500 Fantastic Fonts   500 Fantastic Fonts - software
These are really Fantastic Fonts not only for web design but for other graphic needs. Graphics are letters for web designers. We used several other font software until we found these fantastic fonts. Perhaps you think 500 fonts are too many for selecting the right font but trust me you go through them once and there are dozen fonts that you want to use on all your next web design projects.

The good thing is there are really 500 distinct types of fonts for everyones taste. The CD also contains great symbols such as "Christmasstar" showing tons of different stars or "Handmade" with various hand positions that will make regular web designer a true professional. Needless to say, it’s worth your money and you'll start making your new web sites with these 500 Fantastic Fonts without any problems. Get this cd and save yourself lots of time.
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This web design selection of books and software may not satisfy all your requirements, but if that is the case you may try to check Amazon web site [Amazon.com] for other web design books and software products.

pss, pss: just a little advice, buy from Amzaon, because they have an excellent (cheap) prices for web design books and web design software, probably the best on the net not only for web design books but for most of the products :), trust me!
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