Meryl's Notes Blog

Be prepared to lighten your wallets as New Riders has released a frenzy of books by talented authors this month. Molly releases her 20-something book, Integrated Web Design: Building the New Breed of Designer & Developer. My copy of Special Edition Using HTML and XHTML hasn’t arrived yet and she’s already coming out with a new one. I can’t keep up! She amazes me with her flair for writing. I can only hope that I can accomplish a fourth of what she has.

A much needed new CSS book joins Eric Meyer’s newest book. Between the two, it should get anyone off the ground running in CSS. Who better than Christopher Schmitt to write Designing CSS Web Pages. He did an impressive job on Digital Web’s CSS issue.

Andrew Chak shows designers how to get customers to Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Websites.

Blogging continues to be the hot topic in the world of publishing as Biz Stone, Genius, releases Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content. What are we bloggers supposed to do with the flux of talent writing about blogs including Rebecca who wrote The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog and Shelley, Ben, Mena, Cory, and et. al. combine their brains into one book on Essential Blogging.

OK, I am convinced. I need another pair of eyes to keep up with all this reading.