Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association (December 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0814471951
ISBN-13: 978-0814471951

Web services are a group of closely related, emerging technologies based on an open, Internet-centric infrastructure. They are the driving force that makes corporate portals work, and the best, most economic way of making content and services available to everyone within a corporation, as well as all of its suppliers and customers.

Paperback: 125 pages
Publisher: Apress (August 13, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590599012
ISBN-13: 978-1590599013

ZK is the most popular open source SourceForge Ajax web framework that enables rich user interface for web applications with no JavaScript and little programming. This firstPress book will cover the following:

Paperback: 475 pages
Publisher: Apress (July 19, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590598482
ISBN-13: 978-1590598481

Do you want the ability to manage documents, photos, and other content over the Web but don’t want to shell out thousands of dollars in proprietary solutions? Want to create an online community for your hobby or user group? You’re not alone. For thousands of like-minded around the globe, the answer is Joomla!, an open source content management system used to manage all sorts of data over the Web.

Paperback: 330 pages
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (December 15, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1934356018
ISBN-13: 978-1934356012

Tired of getting swamped in the nitty-gritty of cross-browser, Web 2.0-grade JavaScript? Get back in the game with Prototype and script.aculo.us, two extremely popular JavaScript libraries, that make it a walk in the park. Be it AJAX, drag and drop, auto-completion, advanced visual effects, or many other great features, all you need is write one or two lines of script that look so good they could almost pass for Ruby code!
Web applications are getting richer and richer, with more interaction baked in every day. But JavaScript, DOM, CSS and a full host of other Web standards are quite complex, and the result isn’t always browser compliant.

Paperback: 328 pages
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (November 5, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1934356026
ISBN-13: 978-1934356029

It’s not a one-browser web anymore. You need to reach audiences that use cell phones, PDAs, game consoles, or other “alternative” browsers, as well as users with disabilities. Legal requirements for assistive technologies as well as a wide array of new browsing experiences means you need to concentrate on semantics, alternate access paths, and progressive enhancement.
Give your audience the power

Paperback: 168 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (September 11, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596529309
ISBN-13: 978-0596529307

Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Page, were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines.