I often get requests from readers to recommend books they can read to further advance their web publishing studies. Following is a list of books that I have found to be excellent well-written resources:
HTML: The Definitive Guide by Chuck Musciano | $27.96 (20% off) | |
Description: One of the most comprehensive reference books available on HTML, covering HTML 4.0, browser compatibility, JavaScript, style sheets, layers, and more. | ||
HTML 4.0 Sourcebook by Ian S. Graham | $27.99 (20% off) | |
Description: A comprehensive reference book on HTML 4.0. Besides its exhaustive coverage of HTML 4.0 tags and attributes, this edition also deals with cascading style sheets, dynamic HTML, CGI scripting, and more. | ||
HTML Goodies by Joe Burns | $15.99 (20% off) | |
Description: Written by the creator of the HTML Goodies web site. Organized as a series of brief tutorials, one chapter explains image maps, another goes into depth on frames, while others explain Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Java applets, and more. | ||
JavaScript Goodies by Joe Burns | $15.99 (20% off) | |
Description: Written by the creator of the HTML Goodies web site. If you liked JavaScript Goodies, try Ed Burn's follow-up on JavaScript. Organized in bite-chunk tutorials that are easy to digest. | ||
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan | $31.96 (20% off) | |
Description: This is the top-selling book on JavaScript at Amazon.com. If you want an exhaustive reference, this book is a good choice. | ||
JavaScript Bible, 3rd Edition by Danny Goodman and Brendan Eich | $34.99 (30% off) | |
Description: This is the second best-selling book on JavaScript at Amazon.com. If you're in a mind to buy your books by the pound, this one tops off at 1015 pages. It has lots of glowing reader reviews at Amazon.com. | ||
Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide by Elizabeth Castro | $15.19 (20% off) | |
Description: Bedeviled by the inability to create your own CGI scripts? If so, this book is designed to ease beginners (with lots of hand holding) into the arcane world of CGI scripts. | ||
Increase Your Web Traffic in a Weekend, 3rd Edition by William R. Stanek | $19.99 (20% off) | |
Description: Have a web site, but nobody's visiting? This book introduces you to the most effective methods to promote and market your web site, including information on designing web pages to snag search engines, getting listed in web directories and indexes, how to get listed as "Cool Site of the Day" and receive other awards, plus many other methods and techniques for increasing your web traffic. | ||
Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Unleashed by William R. Stanek | $39.99 (20% off) | |
Description: For those who want to go beyond the introductory FrontPage 2000 book I co-authored, this book is a good place to start. | ||
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor by Tim Berners-Lee | $19.99 (20% off) | |
Description: This is not a book on web publishing, but on the Web, its background and history, written by the guy who invented it. |
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