Month: November 2012

Author: Paul McFedries Publisher: Alpha Books – 364 pages Book Review by: Venkat Subramaniam This book comes with a compact disk (CD) that has a lot of tools to help you build a better website in less time. It has cascading style sheets (CSS), HTML tags, JavaScripts, examples, templates, and other “goodies” to help get your website up and running. Among other functionalities and features, this book gives you: Navigation strategies to help you build a user-friendly, searchable website Simple ways to incorporate news feeds, feedback forms, chat rooms, images, links, and video into your site Helpful advice for...

Author: Donna Diegel Publisher: Alpha Books – 322 pages Book Review by Laxmi Chaandi If you want to bake breads, cakes, cookies and other such foods without using dairy products like milk and cheese, eggs and honey and other animal products, this is the book for you. Written by Donna Diegel who is an experienced baker and party chef for more than a quarter century, this guide to vegan baking contains more than 150 recipes for a variety of breads, bars, brownies, cakes, cobblers, Danish, flatbreads, muffins, pies,  rolls, tarts and other delicious desserts and snacks. You will also...

Author: Tod Dimmick Publisher: Alpha House Book Review by Laxmi Chaandi  This book is packed with over 500 recipes for a variety of meals within its nearly 500 pages. If you’re thinking of ideas for appetizers, breakfasts, brunches, lunches, dinners, desserts, sides and snacks or whatever else, you will likely find recipes with a list of ingredients and steps to preparing or cooking them in this ample guide containing 7 Parts and 31 chapters. Our busy modern lives that take up so much of our time and energy demand recipes that enable us to gather the foods and ingredients...