photoshop books?

has anyone bought some photoshop books lately? could anyone give me advice on which book i should buy if i am not a newb but not so much an intermediate user? i am mainly looking for nice meaty(graphic) tutorials and how to use photoshop to design websites.:confused:

also another question::rolleyes:
what should i learn after HTML4? i tried looking for dhtml learning stuff but all i find are "examples" of stuff which doesnt help me at all. And is there a way to layer stuff in Internet Explorer?

thanks to all who reply. if you only want to answer 1 question please answer the first one.:D

I hear all the books from www.friendsofed.com are good. Also some people always say any book by Deke Meclelland(sp?) are good. There is a list on the TeamPS page you can check out.

You should learn CSS really well. Then Javascript I suppose.

PS BOOKS:
yup as deker said.. check out the teamps list

DHTML:
http://www.bratta.com
http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/

AFTER HTML:
maybe learn server-side scripting like php or cgi/perl
i'd recommend php, much easier

CSS, to ease controlling how text look in ur webpages, (colors, fonts)

LAYER in IE:

its <.div.><./div>, without the ".", its to prevent this board from rendering to html

CSS is much more than just controlling how text looks. You can basically use it to replace laying out pages in tables. It's very, very, good. I suggest learning it really well. And learn to code in compliance with standards so that your page will look the best in the most browsers possible.

deker,

can you give me a few links to some sites that have alot of CSS info, or some example sites that heavily use CSS?

sidefx,

what is server side scripting used to do? is it like java?




also, which would be better to learn now that im done with html4:
dhtml
java
css
flash5/6
focus on photoshop skills

php... it make a webpage dynamic..
more info over at php.net

its not like java...

www.webmonkey.com
has info on php, asp, cgi, css .. almost everything u need

Here are some CSS resources for you.


http://www.alistapart.com/stories/journey/

http://style.cleverchimp.com/

http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/css2tests/

http://glish.com/css/

http://glish.com/css/hacks.asp

http://gallery.theopalgroup.com/selectoracle/

http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/

http://www.webstandards.org/css/