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Do you have a Missing Manual for Microsoft's Expression Web? I can't find one in your catalog. Do you have any books on MS Expression Web?

Problems signing up for safari books online 10 day trial;

Yesterday, I tried to register for an 10 day trial and it took me numerous attempts over span of 3 hours to register.

I faced the following problems :

I tried this with IE7 and FF3, on 3 of safaris websites: O'Reilly Safari, InformIT and PeachPit

* safari SSL certificate was not being accepted by IE7 and FF3, I had to add an exception to FF3 to allow the https registration page to be be displayed. As per the security message displayed by the browsers, it appears the SSL certificate is for Safari Books Online and is being used for all 3 websites?

* On clicking for the trial link, most of the times the trial registration page does not exist message was displayed

* if https registration page did come up few times, the process would get aborted after I submitted my credit card details

I was initially able to register at O'Reilly Safari but I did not receive the trial, and on trying to login to safari, got the message that user does not exists. So I am not sure if that account got created properly.

I was finally able to get a 10 day trial finally on PeachPit.

It appears all 3 websites offer same service and plans so I am not sure what the difference is. A single registration website would make it lot simpler.

The experience quite frustrating and confusing. Maybe the safari books online service was under maintenance at that particular time, if so it would have helped to put up a message to indicate the same.

Another major problem was subscription level. I wanted to register for : 5 Slot Basic Monthly $9.99, which is mentioned at
http://safarikb.bvdep.com/al/12/2/art...
but it is not offered during the registration process.

For now I have gone with the default plan offered ( 10 Slot Monthly $22.99 ), but how can I change to 5 Slot Basic Monthly $9.99.

Recipe 8.4. Create a Seek Bar for a Sound File in Flex 3 Cookbook does not work.

Is the Safari books online site down?
Can't seem to even connect to the server

HI,
Just joined the Safari online books but
Can't find the book's database file to download. The book I'm reading is ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook, 2nd Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-596-10140-4.
The book has example codes for download but I can't find the AdventureWorks database or AdoDotNet35Cookbook database files.

Cannot find "Linux Administration Handbook" second edition published by Prentice Hall Pearson Education, ISBN 0-13-148004-9.

Are you planning on adding mobi pocket books (for blackberrys and PDAs) anytime soon?

Why are the "Harvard Business Review" periodicals not available on O'Reilly Safari? Harvard Business Review always pops up in the type-ahead search box when searched so this tells me that other people are likely searching for the periodicals as well.

The safari logon screen does not appear in the browser (Firefox can't find the server at www.safariu.comredirect.)
This happens frequently. WHat is going on

Does Oreilly has any plans to publish Head First Web Services book?

I'm using Firefox on a Mac (OSX 10.5) and Safari is not working for me. Can you help?

How can I obtain sales figures for O'reilly Macintosh book titles for 2007 (+ other years if convenient)? In particular, Pogue Press Missing Manual series would be interesting. I am more interested in books sold than dollar volume.

Your time and attention will be greatly appreciated.

Tony De Lisa
delisa@arcor.de

There is a two-year-old Drupal book by David Mercer available on Safari, but it is now out of date. I would like to read the updated book that was released in February this year. Is there any way to find out what the plans are?