June 19, 2001

A highly selective list, covering different basic areas of webmastering

General

The Non-Designer's Design Book
by Robin Williams
2nd edition (September 8, 2000)
Peachpit Press; ISBN: 0201710382
An excellent book for newbies and experts on what's involved in designing a Web site.

Web Design in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference
Jennifer Niederst and Richard Koman
Paperback - 580 pages 1st edition (December 1998)
O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 1565925157 ;$29.95
More thorough then the above. My favorite general web reference book, though it's getting a bit dated.

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web
Hakon Wium Lie, Bert Bos, Robert Cailliau
Paperback - 396 pages 2nd edition (July 2, 1999)
Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 0201596253 ; $39.95

Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver 4 Hands-on Training with CD-ROM
Lynda Weinman, Garo Green
Paperback, 650pp.
Peachpit Press , 6/15/2001: ISBN: 0201741334
Weinman's Dreamweaver 3 book was first rate -- fast and thorough -- and now her book for version 4 is out.

HTML

HTML & XHTML : The Definitive Guide
by Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
List Price: $34.95
Paperback - 660 pages 4th edition (August 2000)
O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 059600026X
The best general reference book for HMTL and now XHTML too.

Information Architecture

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
Paperback - 226 pages (March 1998)
O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 1565922824

PHP and MySQL

PHP and MySQL Web Development
Luke Welling and Laura Thomson
Paperback - 896 pages 1 edition (March 30, 2001)
Sams; ISBN: 0672317842 ; $49.99

Photoshop

? I'm not very partial to any Photoshop books. Any suggestions?

Usability

Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity
Jakob Nielsen
Paperback - 432 pages 1 edition (December 1999)
New Riders Publishing; ISBN: 156205810X; $45.00

XML

XML : A Primer
Simon St. Laurent
Paperback - 500 pages 3rd edition (May 2001)
Hungry Minds, Inc; ISBN: 0764547771 ; $29.99

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