This book will do exactly what they said wasn't possible by illustrating how video and sound can be integrated into your Flash presentations, placing you at the extreme edge of creative web design. The application of such tools as AfterEffects, QuickTime, SoundForge and Wildform test the boundaries of Flash and suggest ways to take sound and video beyond Flash and into the realms of Shockwave.

Showing you how to break your site down and incorporate video and sound, the techniques covered in this book capitalise on the capabilities of Flash whilst tackling its limitations head-on. It will then look at how to take web ideo and sound a step further with Shockwave presentations.

This book shows his master of the darkroom, making all his works unique to themselves. If you are into black & white photography and printing this book is a revelation of what is possible.

This book reveals an exciting new field in the investigation of ancient sites: acoustic archaeology. It brings to light a vanished aspect of the past with the aid of computer modelling and sophisticated equipment to calculate frequencies and resonances. These investigations have demonstrated that stone chambers, temples, dolmens, menhirs and even paleolithic caves were deliberately constructed or used in ways that would enhance the ritual sounds produced within them. In the process it reveals the very origins of music and a lost world where echoes were regarded as the voices of the spirits. It assists in our understanding of the biochemical and physiological reasons that lie behind the reasons why dance and rhythm and percussion are such powerful human experiences. Particularly interesting sections include the one on Infrasound (below the hearing ability of the human ear, but one can feel it), on brainwave states, the resonation of body parts, and music and mysticism. Locations tested and reported on, include Stonehenge and other spots on the British Isles, French and Spanish paleolithic caves, Grecian and Mayan temples. The text is enhanced by black & white illustrations, musical notations and beautiful color plates. There are also references & notes and an index. Being the first work ever in this exciting new discipline, this book is very valuable and I highly recommend it to readers who are interested in mankind's unknown past, and to musicologists, ethnologists and archaeologists.

This book is fabulous in that in that it not only charts the tour sites of the Great Sioux was with excellent maps, directions and fantastic pictures but also provides excellent mini-histories on what occurred at each site including bios on the main participants. Just reading this book gives you a good historical perspective for the great plains war with chapters that categorize the historical sites by period starting with the Gratten marker in Wyoming. The Gratten monument was for a Lt. and his company that threatened Conquering Bear's village over the alleged theft of a cow resulting in his death and his companies (1856). This book proceeds with sites and histories flowing the Red Cloud War of 1866, through the Little Bighorn Campaign period and aftermath, the summer and winter campaigns. Also includes historical sites after 1877 such as sitting Bull's Canadian sites with descriptions of the sites and pictures. Hedren covers every major historical site from old forts, some of which have been reconstructed and some have actual structures that he describes and has pictures of. You can virtually follow the expeditions of the army or find exact locations of significant village sites. This book adds an extra dimension to any trip as Hedren shows you additional sites, some obscure, right next door to the more publicized sites. A great example is Little Bighorn, just 30 miles away is the pristine Rosebud Battlefield site where Crook encountered the Sioux and Cheyenne in a desperate and critical battle a week before Custer. In addition, the Powder River Battlefield where Crook's forces struck first but lost the initiative in March is just further west of the Rosebud Battlefield. This book provides so much information and easy directions including those that are on private property (includes caution to seek permission) that an adventurous traveler can seemingly so it all in a long week but perhaps two. The book's pictures are better than many books that are dedicated to a specific battle. The pictures of the massive Bear Butte Mountain are incredible as its mass is seen along a flat plain. The also book includes pictures of the main participants and their places of rest. A book that Walter Camp would be proud of as he documented many of these sites almost 100 years ago before they were lost to obscurity. I wish I had this book when I visited the Little Bighorn two years ago; however, there is so much great information I would have had to stay west another week.

This book is loaded with mesmerizing photographs, including many spectacular full-page and page-and-a-half photos that make me feel like I'm in full gear, right at the photographer's elbow. Includes both well known sites as well as reefs rarely seen by humans. As a diver, this is the book I dig out to dream with.

Outstanding coverage of all aspects of Exchange Server 2000. I bought the book because I needed to know not only how to program with Web Storage System (WSS) forms, but also Active Directory. This book covered both without the need to buy two books. It covers virtually everything having to do with programming on Exchange Server 2000 with great examples. The author clearly demonstrated that he knows the topic inside and out. I highly recommend buying this book!

A user friendly guide to web design basics. I especially liked the easy to follow illustrations that showed you exactly what your screen will look like as you develop your web pages. Each area i.e. how to add a hyperlink, how to add radio buttons, creating forms and tables etc. etc. has easy step by step instructions. You'll get a lot of use out this excellent training and resource book!

We are an IT company engaged in the development of electronic commerce/distributed database software that is designed to support both government and commercial supply-chain management business- to-business operations. In this brave new world of network infrastructures, firewalls, security requirements, etc., the need to stay current with technology change is critical. The Electronic Commerce, Third Edition provides a source of knowledge that helps fulfill this need. The authors have produced a book that is easy to read and understand, and yet, provides just the right amount of technical detail to do justice to the subject at hand. The following chapters provide the right level of information to help IT managers and software engineers make sound strategic and tactical decisions regarding business-to-business implementation decisions; (2) Security Technologies, (4) Protocols for the Public Transport of Private Information, (9) Strategies, Techniques, and Tools, and (10) E-Commerce Environments and Future Directions.

A detailed and complete reference on e-commerce. This book covers the whole gamit of electronic commerce. Going from concepts through complete set-up and on to implementation and beyond. Excellent coverage on payment systems and everyone's #1 priority - security. A complete and detailed table of contents and appendix make quick searches a breeze. Complimenting the book itself is an enclosed CD which, along with many resources and helpful links, is chock full of technical setup procedures and protocol. A very complete book on e-commerce. Read it or be left behind!

If, at my last job, we had had access to this book with its compilation of the many technologies that are critical to e-commerce, we would have been spared months of research, technical errors and frustrations, and costly delays in implementing our dotcom. Fortunately, I can now use this information in my current project. Having up-to-date reference material combined in one book is not only a major time-saver; it is also far more readable and understandable than most technical information I had already collected and tried to assimilate on my own into a cohesive and fail-safe plan.

Even for someone who is building a non-commercial site (without requirements for SSL, firewalls, encryption, and the complex security needed for electronic payments), I thoroughly recommend reading Chapter 10 at the very least, with all of its valuable pointers and concrete examples of both good and bad. If more sites complied with these, I would find navigating the web a far more pleasant experience than it has come to be over the past few years.

I can highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in designing a web page, but has been scared off by having to learn HTML.

The author writes with a light, humorous style, and never overloads you with information. As you go through this book, you will quickly learn how to prepare a simple page, then will learn how to add graphics, links, sounds, forms, etc. to it.

The book comes with a CD that features several helpful programs, and dozens of pieces of clip art that you can use on your site.

Will this book make you a high-speed Java programmer? Definitely not, but that is not its goal.

If you want to learn how to put together a web page, and want to read an easy-to-follow book, complete with step-by-step instructions, that does not talk down to you for being a novice, this is it!

This book was worth every penny I paid for it!

Before you turn away from a title that says "Complete Idiot's Guide"...don't feel embaressed! I willfully purchased this book because I wanted to make my own web page. "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML Web Page" is the perfect and essential companion for beginners. You have to know basic information on the internet and computers but besides that it's a great resource. The book is very thorough and covers every aspect of advanced HTML (Forms, Frames, Image Maps) to beginner (Links, Paragraph Tags, Basic Documents). Not only does it have HTML lessons but it also gives notes on how to organize your site to make it look good for its audience. I found this book very laid-back and sincere. It's devided into several chapters and also includes humerous comics below each chapter title. So If you're a beginner HTML/web-page Enthusiast, know a little already about how Windows and the Internet works then I would definatly reccomend "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML webpage." My overral grade for this book is an A+

I have a few books on html and designing web pages, including one by Laura Lemay. But I would have to say that The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML Web Page is the easiest to follow, beginners or advanced users. The author, Paul McFedries, writes in a way we can all understand and makes reading about html fun (a feat in itself). If you want to design your own web pages, this is *the* book to own.

If you use Adobe Golive to create web sites and want to dig deeper into the powerful program, this book will help you do it.

It has 14 projects, along with a companion CD (contains all the necessary data to use in Golive), that will increase your knowledge of Golive and help you to create more advanced web sites.

Creating and using text macros, authoring your own javascript actions,
very cool dhtml projects (I really like the online calender), authoring wireless handheld web sites, and setting up your own dynamic content management system using PHP and MySQL (with a sample database included).

Some of the projects may seem a bit intimidating to intermediate users like myself, but when I went thru the book,I found that it is layed out so clearly that it became fun to delve into the projects.

I am setting up the PHP and mySQL Dynamic link as I write and I have never done it before!

A very cool and needed addition to the Golive library.

If you want to take GoLive a few steps further then this is the book for you. Though this book is not for the novice GoLive user, as somone who considers himself in the intermediate/advanced user category I found it very useful indeed. My biggest problem was installing the Dynamic Content Servers from the GoLive CD so that I could work through the "Building a Dynamic Content Management System using PHP and MySQL" Project!

Author Paul Vachier brings in "GoLive Superstars" such as Rob Keniger as contributors to great advantage.

I have really enjoyed working through the tutorials which are very well edited. Often I get frustrated with books like these because I find that the text does not always match up with the practical steps to be taken. However in GoLive 6 Magic they matched very well indeed. I actually had fun doing it. And now after working through "Creating Quicktime Sniffers" to "Displaying Random Images and URLs" to "Building Dynamic Content" and the other 11 tutorials I think that I am a much more skilled user. What more can I ask?

Great book for Golive users who want to go to the next level.

Golive is a very powerful web authoring program and Golive 6 Magic is very good in showing some of the features that I might have never duscovered on my own.

Text macros, Quicktime and Flash sniffer techniques, creating Quicktime sprites and skins, cool DHTML projects (I like the online calender), authoring your own javascript actions, getting into the SDK, setting up your own Dynamic database content management system with PHP and MySQL are some of the 14 projects included.

There is a companion CD that has all the data for Golive 6 to use when you follow along with the book.

Some of the projects seemed a bit intimidating to an intermediate user like myself, but the book is layed out so clearly that it was fun to delve into the projects.

I have set up my own MySQL,PHP database for the first time thanks to Golive 6 magic ( a sample database is included).

This is a needed addition to the Golive library.