Web Books for Development, Design and Interaction Books
In this Web Book Review you will find some great book in development. You need to continue to learn about development and what better way than to read a book on the particular section. Maybe your new and need somewhere to start, design, usability or seo. All of these books can help you become a better developer, designer or if your just curious.
Site Planning
Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works (2nd Edition)
This book has a great idea of what stages to take a new site or a redesign. It not only looks at design and layouts. It also focuses on planning, target market and content.
Site Planning Runner Up:
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
Design Books
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
This is probably the easiest book to understand if you have never got deep into design. He takes you through simple steps each one very important to design. There is some HTML and CSS reference, but not many.
Design Runners Up:
Designing With Web Standards
Bulletproof Design
HTML
HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition
This is a great resource if jumping into HTML for the first time. The book isn’t very long and gets to the point. If has great examples that aren’t too technical.
HTML Runners Up:
Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS
CSS
The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks
When they say there is a 101 Essential Tips, they aren’t kidding. There are so many get tips, tricks and techniques to get results like rounded corners, drop down menus and W3C friendly code.
CSS Runners Up:
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
CSS: The Missing Manual
JavaScript, Ajax & jQuery
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
This book is great, it has lots of beginner JavaScript examples and explanations. One thing to note is that you need some experience is development. It will make your life easier going through this book.
JavaScript, Ajax jQuery Runners Up:
Ajax and PHP: Building Responsive Web Application
Learning jQuery 1.3
PHP, MySQL & ASP
You need to know some HTML before getting into PHP. When you’re ready this is a great book to get started and create some application in PHP. The end of the book talks about integrating some MySQL databases.
PHP, MySQL & ASP Runners Up:
Ajax and PHP: Building Responsive Web Application
ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Drupal is one of the most universal open source content management systems available. Learning how Drupal works and how to use its framework can help your current site or your development to a new level. This book breaks down the different section of Drupal.
CMS Runners Up:
WordPress for Dummies
Joomla! 1.5 A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website (2nd Edition)
Interactivity Reviews
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
If you want to start looking at this a different way, this is one of the best books to help you with this. This book takes interfaces and twists them around on how the visitor would react to different scenarios. This book can really help you think about how things interact and how to improve interactivity.
Usability
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
This could be one of the best books you could read for development. This book is amazing. It breaks down what your visitors are actually doing on your site and explains how to make your site better. There are problems with sites that you wouldn’t think about.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day
There is one weird thing about this book. It encourages you to fill out this worksheets that you can download online. If you put that to the side and focus on what information they share with you. It has all the solid principles of SEO.
SEO Runner Up:
SEOMOZ Beginners Guide - (Free)
