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High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
$29.99
This book lays down nicely all the theory needed to speed up web sites. It's easy to read and IMHO is an essential one for every web developer.

How to Design Your Own Web Site DVD
$89.95
This video provides you with the basic information that you'll need in order to become involved in web page design. A simple explanation of the web-authoring process is provided and can be understood by beginners.

Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual
$29.99
What's GOOD: A must have for any beginning web site developer. I continue to find this book an excellent resource as I develop my website.

What's BAD: Beware of sources/websites within the book. I did a lot of additional research on hosting solutions as recommended in the book and initially went with aplus.net (who is featured in the book also). After working on my site and looking at some other features I wanted to take advantage of, I canceled the aplus.net hosting solution and went with another provider. Needless to say, it has been 25+ days since the cancellation and aplus.net has not processed the refund (it's still "pending"). Shame on the author and publisher for including references to a company with such POOR business practices.

Web Easy 7.0 Professional
$49.95
If you buy this software, just hope you never have a problem because you most likely won't get help. First you have to call a long distance phone number where you are put on hold for a half hour or more. Their customer support reps have attitudes that make you feel like you are an idiot for bothering them. Their typical stock answer is, "the problem isn't with our software, call your web host." I created three websites with this software. Now that I want to make some changes to them, the changes are loading into the wrong websites. I am going out today to buy a new software program and will throw webeasy in the garbage where it belongs.