web sites

Wikipedia is the product of a lot of hard work. It had its ups and downs and its failures and successes before becoming the Internet phenomenon it is today. This book details the journey, from the early life of Jimmy Wales through the height of Wikipedia's success.

The company that is now Google began as a partnership of ideas between two Stanford University graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. This perceptive book includes sidebars on the company's innovations, a biographical fact sheet on Brin, Page, and Eric Schmidt, CEO.

Step-by-step instructions help teens create personal web pages and blogs, with tips on how to design and update a unique, creative web site while protecting themselves and their identities from online hackers and predators.

Presents eleven lessons designed to help people learn how to use the Adobe Flash CS3 Professional program, covering the newest features, many applications, and other components of the software. Includes a CD-ROM with additional lesson files.

Provides information on how to design home pages on the World Wide Web using an ordinary computer and a text editor.

A look at the origins, leaders, growth, and innovations of Facebook, the online social networking service that was founded in 2004 and today has hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

Presents multiple sides to the current issue about social networking. Also focuses on concerns that today's middle and high school students deal with regularly, such as underage drinking and obesity.

Mr. Speed creates a website on which his students can anonymously type their worries and get feedback from their classmates, which helps them sort out everything from pimples to stepfamily problems.