New web design book hits the mark for beginners

This is a fantastic book for anyone looking at creating their own website using Microsoft's latest web design application called Expression Web. Expression Web is setting itself up to rival the biggest players in the web design business (like Dreamweaver) and having this book will bring you up to speed in a short period of time.

The reason I like this book is its not the typical 'this is how you use this application' type of book. This book teaches you the proper way to create a website using current and established technologies. What this means for a beginner is not only to you learn Expression Web but you are also getting a strong foundation on building websites. This is important as you grow and gives you knowledge that can be carried to other design applications.

Link:
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1590598059/...

Book: Web APIs with PHP

I got a chance to read through and review the Web APIs with PHP book from Wrox Press and was quite impressed with the structure and presentation of the information. Its just the way I like, direct and straight to the point with easy to follow examples. Just show me the code and tell me what its supposed to do and I'm a happy camper.

My main is reason for getting the book was to do some work with the API from Flickr and Google. I have some clients that wanted to pull in Flickr images into their website so the bandwidth on galleries was on Flickr's server and not theirs.

Finally a book thats fun to play around with...

Site I developed using the Flickr API:
http://thatsmyhorse.com/

Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Web-APIs-PHP-Google...