Peachpit Press, February 2009

There are many books out there that teach CSS, but most of them are not meant for absolute beginners. This book is. If you've never used CSS before, ths book will get you up and running fast. We don't pretend (or even try; the book is only 150 pages) to teach you everything you need to know about CSS. Instead, we show you how to create a clean, standards-compliant Web site using CSS from start to finish. This book was written with Dori Smith.

Peachpit Press, November 2008

Adobe Dreamweaver keeps getting better, and we revised our bestselling Dreamweaver book to keep up with Adobe's advances. We covered the new features, including Dreamweaver's improved handling of CSS, the new Code Navigator, and the improved integration with Photoshop.

Peachpit Press, October 2008

The latest version of our bestselling JavaScript book once again revises the way we teach the language, with a focus on modern coding techniques. We also added much more information about Ajax in this edition.

Peachpit Press, October 2007

This book covers PowerPoint 2007 for Windows, going into more detail than the Visual QuickProject Guide. With more pages, I was able to cover more parts of the program and add lots of tips and tricks for making better presentations.

Peachpit Press, June 2007

This is a revision of the best-selling book written with Dori Smith. We cover the new features of Macromedia Dreamweaver CS3, including the improved CSS handling, management, and CSS layouts; the integration with Photoshop and Fireworks; the new Browser Compatibility Check and CSS Advisor; and we go into detail on Dreamweaver's addition of AJAX with the Spry framework, widgets, and effects.

Based on reader feedback, Dori also tore apart the two CSS chapters in the previous edition and turned them into three chapters, with the intent of making the explanations of the ins and outs of CSS even more approachable, as well as covering the new CSS features.

Peachpit Press, February 2007

This revision of my best-selling PowerPointVisual QuickProject covers the radically-different user interface of PowerPoint 2007 for Windows. The Microsoft Office UI got a big change, and it was reflected throughout this book.The book is still concise, to the point, and loaded with color pictures. Unfortunately, this edition drops the coverage of Mac PowerPoint, because a new Mac version had not yet been released, and because the user interface for the Windows version was so different that the two programs were very different. Until PowerPoint 2008 for Mac is released at the end of 2007, Mac users should still purchase the older edition.

JavaScript & Ajax for the Web, Visual QuickStart Guide, Sixth Edition

Peachpit Press, August 2006

This was a big revision to our best-selling book. We broke from the past and redid virtually all of the scripts in the book, conforming them to current best practices. We've brought the scripts into line with the concepts of unobtrusive scripting, splitting the HTML, JavaScript, and CSS into separate files. This makes the scripts and the pages easier to maintain.And by separating content, scripting, and styles, you can make changes in any one file, and see those changes reflected in all pages that use the file you modified.

We changed the name of the book to include Ajax, and we have two entirely new chapters dealing with Ajax. We also jettisoned some old chapters, as well as the discussion of how to deal with old Web browsers; we now deal only with modern, standards-compliant browsers in this book. We do, however still have a chapter about dealing with older browsers; it's just not in the book. Instead, we've put it up on the book's companion site.

Peachpit Press, December 2005

This book was written with Dori Smith. We were asked by our publisher to take over this title from a previous author, and we wrote this book from scratch. Not only did we try to cover most of the new features of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, we also wanted to take a different approach to teaching Dreamweaver.

We think that too many of the other Dreamweaver books out there rely on old-style methods for creating sites and pages with Dreamweaver, such as using tables for layout and font tags for styling text. Those methods aren't appropriate anymore, especially because Dreamweaver 8 has great tools for creating and using CSS. So our book walks readers through building sites the modern way, respecting Web standards throughout. We still show people how to do things the old-fashioned ways (because some people have special requirements for using those methods), but we focus on teaching modern methods.

Special thanks to Virginia DeBolt for contributing some important chapters to the book.

Peachpit Press, August 2005

After two years, Apple finally revised Keynote, their presentation program, and made it part of their new productivity suite, iWork '05. I've updated my book to include the new features in Keynote 2, such as hyperlinks, the new Media Browser, improved animations and transitions, and more.

This was also my thirtieth book, after being in the book writing business for a little over a decade.