AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript + CSS + DOM + XMLHttpRequest

AJAX For Dummies, by Steve Holzner, For Dummies, Mar 2006. Shows how to get up and running with the Ajax development platform and application architecture. 384 pages.

AJAX Patterns and Best Practices, by Christian Gross, Apress, Feb 2006. This enables you to quickly write AJAX applications that work properly using REST on the server. 400 pages.

Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer, by Justin Gehtland, Ben Galbraith, and Dion Almaer, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Apr 2006. This shows you how to apply Ajax easily, exploring both fundamental technologies and the emerging frameworks that make it easy. 200 pages.

ASP - Active Server Pages

ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer’s Notebook, by Wei-Meng Lee, O’Reilly and Associates, Jun 2005. An introduction to ASP.NET 2.0, and a guide to its new features by means of nearly 50 hands-on projects. 352 pages.

ASP.NET Cookbook, by Michael A. Kittel and Geoffrey T. LeBlond, O’Reilly and Associates, Aug 2004. This provides a wealth of solutions to common problems when developing ASP.NET apps, with solutions and recipes that developers can insert into their apps. 656 pages.

ASP.NET in a Nutshell, 2^ndEd, by G. Andrew Duthie and Matthew MacDonald, O’Reilly and Associates, Aug 2003. A concise reference to everything you need to make effective use of ASP.NET, including how to migrate from older technologies, updated for Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET, 3^rdEd, by Jesse Liberty and Dan Hurwitz, O’Reilly and Associates, Oct 2005. Shows how to create dynamic, data-driven web sites and services using ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. 944 pages.

C#

C# Cookbook, 2^ndEd, by Stephen Teilhet and Jay Hilyard, O’Reilly and Associates, Jan 2006. This offers more than 300 code solutions to common problems that you’re sure to face as a C# programmer, with a documented code sample for nearly every solution. Updated for C# 2.0. 1184 pages.

C# 3.0 Cookbook, by Stephen Teilhet and Jay Hilyard, O’Reilly and Associates, Dec 2007. This offers 250+ code recipes for problems that C# programmers face every day. Updated for C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5. 800 pages.

C# in a Nutshell, 3^rdEd, by Joseph Albahari and Ben Albahari, O’Reilly and Associates, Sep 2007. A concise, thorough reference to C# 3.0 as implemented in Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008, now organized around concepts and use cases. 858 pages.

Head First C#, by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, O’Reilly and Associates, Nov 2007. This teaches beginners how to use the C# language. 778 pages.

Learning C#, 2^ndEd: Get Started with C# 2.0 and .NET Programming, by Jesse Liberty and Brian MacDonald, O’Reilly and Associates, Feb 2006. An entry-level guide to C#, updated to C# 2.0 and Visual Basic 2005. 544 pages.

Programming C#: Building .NET Applications with C#, 4^thEd, by Jesse Liberty, O’Reilly and Associates, Feb 2005. A guide for experienced programmers that focuses on features and programming patterns that are new to C#, and fundamental to the programming of web services and web applications on Microsoft’s .NET platform. Updated to the C# ISO standard and changes to Microsoft’s implementation, with notes and warnings on C# 1.1 and C# 2.0. 666 pages.

Programming C# 3.0, 5^thEd, by Jesse Liberty, O’Reilly and Associates, Dec 2007. This tutorial for beginning to intermediate programmers covers C# 3.0 and the newest .NET platform in developing Windows and web applications. 704 pages.

CSS - Cascading Style Sheets

Bulletproof Web Design, 2^ndEd: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS, by Dan Cederholm, New Riders, Aug 2007. Outlines strategies for creating standards-based designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control. 312 pages.

Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 3^rdEd, by Eric A. Meyer, O’Reilly and Associates, Nov 2006. A comprehensive CSS 2 reference and guide, updated for CSS 2.1, today’s prime CSS standard. Updated for IE 7, and includes info on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more. Details each CSS property, how it interacts with other properties, and how to avoid common errors. By Eric Meyer, the CSS guru. 524 pages.

Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, 3^rdEd, by Hakon Wium Lie and Bert Bos, Addison-Wesley, Apr 2005. The definitive guide to CSS, written by the creators of CSS. Updated for CSS 2.1. 416 pages.

Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, 2^ndEd, by Owen Briggs, Steven Champeon, Eric Costello, and Matt Patterson, APress, Mar 2004. A guide to separating content from presentation, and how to cope with browser differences. 409 pages.

Head First HTML & CSS, by Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman, O’Reilly and Associates, Dec 2005. A starter book for those interested in web design. 694 pages.

HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS, by Patrick Griffiths, New Riders, Dec 2006. With web standards best practices at its heart, this comprehensive guide outlines how to do things the right way from the start, resulting in highly optimized web pages. 368 pages.

More Eric Meyer on CSS: Voices That Matter, by Eric A. Meyer, New Riders Publishing, April 2004. An in-depth guide with 10 hands-on projects to teach about problems when designing with CSS, written by the CSS guru. 304 pages.

Stylin’ with CSS: A Designer’s Guide, by Charles Wyke-Smith, New Riders Publishing, December 2007. This teaches everything you need to know to start using CSS in your web development work, starting from the basics. 312 pages.

The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web, by Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag, New Riders Publishing, Feb 2005. This uses examples from the CSS Zen Garden site to show how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites; a good supplement to your CSS reference or tutorial. 304 pages.

HTML and xHTML

Bulletproof Web Design, 2^ndEd: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS, by Dan Cederholm, New Riders, Aug 2007. Outlines strategies for creating standards-based designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control. 312 pages.

Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 3^rdEd, by Danny Goodman, O’Reilly and Associates, Dec 2006. A comprehensive dHTML reference book. 1408 pages.

Head First HTML & CSS, by Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman, O’Reilly and Associates, Dec 2005. A starter book for those interested in web design. 694 pages.

HTML & xHTML: The Definitive Guide, 6^thEd, by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, O’Reilly and Associates, Oct 2006. A comprehensive HTML and xHTML reference book, updated for IE 7, FF 1.5, HTML 4.01, xHTML 1.0, CSS 2, and a preview of xHTML 2 and CSS 3. 672 pages.

HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS, by Patrick Griffiths, New Riders, Dec 2006. With web standards best practices at its heart, this comprehensive guide outlines how to do things the right way from the start, resulting in highly optimized web pages. 368 pages.

Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics, 3^rdEd, by Jennifer Niederst Robbins and Aaron Gustafson, O’Reilly and Associates, Jun 2007. A starter book for those interested in web design. 479 pages.

Java

Enterprise JavaBeans, 4^thEd, by Richard Monson-Haefel, O’Reilly and Associates, Jun 2004. An authoritative and thorough guide to EJBs, updated for EJB 2.1. An essential reference for EJB developers. 788 pages.

Head First Java, 2^ndEd, by Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra, O’Reilly and Associates, Feb 2005. A complete introduction to object-oriented programming and Java, from the fundamentals to advanced topics, with a focus on Java 5 (Tiger). 720 pages.

Java Cookbook 2^ndEd, by Ian F. Darwin, O’Reilly and Associates, Jun 2004. A comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples, with 100’s of proven Java recipes covering all of the major Java 1.4 APIs and the most important features of the upcoming 1.5 APIs. 862 pages.

Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3^rdEd, by David Flanagan, O’Reilly and Associates, Jan 2004. 193 complete, practical Java examples: over 21,900 lines of densely commented, professionally written Java 1.4 code, covering 20 distinct client- and server-side APIs. A companion to Java in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, and Java Enterprise in a Nutshell. 720 pages.

Java in a Nutshell, 5^thEd, by David Flanagan, O’Reilly and Associates, Mar 2005. A comprehensive Java reference book, updated to cover Java 5 (Tiger). 1252 pages.

Java Servlet & JSP Cookbook, by Bruce W. Perry, O’Reilly and Associates, Jan 2004. With 100’s of examples and 1000’s of lines of code, this book gives tips and techniques for anyone making JavaServer Pages or servlets, with complete solutions to significant development problems which developers can insert into their own applications. 704 pages.

JavaScript & Dynamic HTML

Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries, by Jonathan Snook, Aaron Gustafson, Stuart Langridge, and Dan Webb, Apress, Sep 2007. A book for experienced JavaScript / DOM designers, this teaches advanced techniques, illustrated by 3 projects. 221 pages.

Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 3^rdEd, by Danny Goodman, O’Reilly and Associates, Dec 2006. A comprehensive dHTML reference book. 1408 pages.

Head First JavaScript, by Michael Morrison, O’Reilly and Associates, Jan 2008. This teaches the basics of programming, how browsers run code, and how to use JavaScript for DHTML. 650 pages.

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5^thEd, by David Flanagan, O’Reilly and Associates, Aug 2006. Comprehensive guide to JavaScript, JScript, and ECMAScript, plus DOM elements they often manipulate, including advanced material on the latest developer topics, such as scripting Flash with JavaScript, HTTP and Ajax, SVG, XML, web services, and remote scripting. Tutorial sections show how to program in JavaScript. Reference sections summarize syntax and options, with copious examples. 1018 pages

JavaScript and DHTML Cookbook, 2^ndEd, by Danny Goodman, O’Reilly and Associates, Aug 2007. An extensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for JavaScript programmers, applying state-of-the-art standards and best practices. 604 pages.

Learning JavaScript, by Shelley Powers, O’Reilly and Associates, Oct 2006. Introduction to JavaScript, using the latest examples from modern browser development practices. 360 pages.

Pro JavaScript Design Patterns, by Ross Harmes and Dustin Diaz, APress, Dec 2007. Master OOP with design patterns. 269 pages.

Multimedia

Streaming Media Bible, by Steve Mack, John Wiley & Sons, Apr 2002. A guide to audio and video streaming, introducing basic concepts and tools, discussing encoding files for the Internet and the specific features of QuickTime, RealSystem, and Windows Media, then explaining SMIL and the challenges of live broadcasts. 850 pages.

P3P - Platform for Privacy Preferences

Web Privacy with P3P, by Lorrie Faith Cranor, O’Reilly and Associates, Sep 2002. Explains the P3P protocol and shows how to configure sites for P3P compliance.

Perl

Intermediate Perl, by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and Brian D Foy, O’Reilly and Associates, Mar 2006. An introduction to intermediate Perl, by the authors of the classic Learning Perl. 272 pages.

Learning Perl, 4^thEd., by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and Brian D Foy, O’Reilly and Associates, Jul 2005. The book to buy if you want to learn Perl. Updated for Perl 5.8. 312 pages. Once you’ve mastered this, get the next books, Intermediate Perl and Learning Perl Objects, References and Modules, and take a look at Object Oriented Perl.

Learning Perl Objects, References and Modules, by Randal Schwartz and Tom Phoenix, O’Reilly and Associates, Jun 2003. A gentle, thorough introduction to advanced Perl programming, written by the authors of Learning Perl.

Mastering Perl, by Brian D Foy, O’Reilly and Associates, Jun 2007. This book, for those who have mastered Learning Perl and Internediate Perl, pulls everything together to show you how to bend Perl to your will. 368 pages.

Perl Best Practices: Standards and Styles for Developing Maintainable Code, by Damian Conway, O’Reilly and Associates, Jul 2005. This offers 256 guidelines on the art of coding to help you produce code that is clear, robust, efficient, maintainable, and concise. 544 pages.

Perl Cookbook, 2^ndEd, by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington, Jul 2003. A comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl, with hundreds of "recipes" and thousands of examples ranging from brief one-liners to complete applications. Updated for Perl 5.8.

Perl Core Language Little Black Book, 2^ndEd, by Steven Holzner, Paraglyph Publishing, Sep 2004. Insightful tips and techniques to Perl programming, with excellent examples to help programmers exploit the power and flexibility of Perl. 528 pages.

Perl Debugger Pocket Reference, by Richard Foley, O’Reilly and Associates, Jan 2004. This little book provides a quick and convenient path to mastery of the Perl debugger and its commands. Written by a core member of the Perl debugger development team, it’s an ideal quick reference to debugger commands, and a detailed tutorial on how to get started. 152 pages.

Perl Graphics Programming: Creating SVG, SWF (Flash), JPEG and PNG files with Perl, by Shawn Wallace, O’Reilly and Associates, Dec 2002. This provides the tools necessary to begin programming and designing graphics for the web.

Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5, Scott Walters, Apress, Jan 2005. A thorough introduction to Perl 6 and an advanced teaching guide for Perl 5. Filled with extensive practical examples, this gives in-depth coverage to the new language features of Perl 6, and explores the relation of Perl 6 to Perl 5 on topics including the use of modules to back port Perl 6 features. 424 pages.

Perls of Wisdom, Randal Schwartz, APress, Dec 2004. A collection of 70+ of Randal Schwartz’s columns, teaching everything from Perl basics to how to decompose XML using an HTML parser. Good reading for those who want to enhance their Perl skills. 350 pages.

Practical mod_perl, Stas Bekman and Eric Cholet, O’Reilly and Associates, Jun 2003. This tells how to use, optimize, and troubleshoot mod_perl: written for web developers and administrators.

Pro Perl, by Peter Wainwright, Apress, Mar 2005. Presents in-depth practices to exploiting Perl’s best features. For experienced developers who want to reap more from Perl. 1064 pages.

PHP

Beginning PHP and MySQL, 3^rdEd: From Novice to Professional, by W. J. Gilmore, APRESS, Mar 2008. Gives comprehensive information about PHP, MySQL, and how they work together. 1080 pages.

Build Your Own Database-Driven Website Using PHP and MySQL, 3^rdEd, by Kevin Yank, Sitepoint, Oct 2004. A practical guide for first-time users of PHP & MySQL that teaches readers by creating a fully working Content Management System, Shopping Cart and other real-world applications. 359 pages.

Essential PHP Security, by Chris Shiflett, O’Reilly and Associates, Nov 2005. Explains the types of attacks that hackers use on websites, tells how to configure Apache and PHP to guard against them, and shows how to write PHP programs that aren’t susceptible to the attacks. 124 pages.

PHP Hacks: Tips & Tools For Creating Dynamic Websites, by Jack Herrington, O’Reilly and Associates, Dec 2005. Teaches how to develop more robust PHP applications by improving your database design, automating application testing, and employing design patterns in your PHP scripts and classes. 468 pages.

PHP 5 Power Programming, by Andi Gutmans, Stig Bakken, and Derick Rethans. Prentice Hall, Oct 2004. PHP 5’s co-creator and two leading PHP developers show you how to make the most of PHP 5’s enhancements in any project, no matter how large or complex. Their unique insights and realistic examples illuminate PHP 5’s new object model, powerful design patterns, improved XML Web services support, and much more. 720 pages.

PHP in a Nutshell, by Paul Hudson, O’Reilly and Associates, Oct 2005. A complete reference to the core of PHP and to the most popular PHP extensions. 370 pages.

Programming PHP, 2^ndEd, by Kevin Tatroe, Rasmus Lerdorf, and Peter MacIntyre, O’Reilly and Associates, Apr 2006. An authoritative guide to PHP 5, with syntax and techniques coupled with many examples that illustrate correct usage and common idioms. 544 pages.

Upgrading to PHP 5, by Adam Trachtenberg, O’Reilly and Associates, Jul 2004. A concise, detailed appraisal of the differences between PHP 4 and PHP 5, what’s new in PHP 5, and how the changes affect your work. 304 pages.

Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2^ndEd, by Hugh E. Williams and David Lane, O’Reilly and Associates, May 2004. Learn how to build dynamic websites with PHP and SQL, with a special focus on the PEAR repository. 816 pages.

RSS - Really Simple Syndication

Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom, by Ben Hammersley, O’Reilly and Associates, Apr 2005. This guide explains content syndication, details RSS and Atom, and shows how to syndicate news and blogs. 270 pages.

Radio UserLand Kick Start, by Rogers Cadenhead, SAMS, Oct 2003. Tells what a blogger needs to know to start using Radio, with emphasis on its XML-RPC, RSS, and XML functionality. 400 pages.

Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies, by Ellen Finkelstein, For Dummies, Mar 2005. This shows how to use, create, and promote RSS feeds. 360 pages.

SQL

Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, by W. J. Gilmore, APRESS, Jun 2004. An introduction to using PHP 5 with MySQL. 800 pages.

Build Your Own Database-Driven Website Using PHP and MySQL, 3^rdEd, by Kevin Yank, Sitepoint, Oct 2004. A practical guide for first-time users of PHP & MySQL that teaches readers by creating a fully working Content Management System, Shopping Cart and other real-world applications. 359 pages.

The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, 3^rdEd, by Michael Kofler, Apress, Aug 2005. A comprehensive guide to MySQL, updated for MySQL 5. 950 pages.

Learning MySQL, by Hugh E. Williams and Seyed M.M. Tahaghoghi. O’Reilly and Associates, Nov 2006. An introduction to relational databases, and MySQL in particular, this tutorial explains how to set up MySQL and related software from the beginning, and how to do common tasks. This also provides you with a foundation for more advanced database management. 618 pages.

MySQL in a Nutshell, 2^ndEd, by Russell Dyer, O’Reilly and Associates, Mar 2008. A reference to all MySQL functions, the popular MySQL utilities, and the APIs for PHP, Perl, and C, with several tutorial chapters for newcomers, updated for v5.1. 400 pages.

Pro MySQL, by Michael Kruckenberg and Jay Pipes, Apress, Jul 2005. A comprehensive MySQL 5 guide for intermediate and advanced MySQL users, focusing on advanced MySQL 5 applications in enterprise environments. 768 pages.

SQL in a Nutshell, 2^ndEd, by Kevin E. Kline, Daniel Kline, and Brand Hunt. O’Reilly and Associates, Sep 2004. This concise, comprehensive reference drills down and documents every SQL command and how to use it in both commercial and open source implementations, including the command syntax, a description, and practical examples. Explains how leading commercial and open sources database product implement SQL. 710 pages.

SQL Pocket Guide, by Jonathan Gennick, O’Reilly and Associates, Mar 2004. A concise reference to frequently used SQL statements and commonly used SQL functions, covering Oracle, IBM’s DB2, and Microsoft’s SQL Server. 144 pages.

Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2^ndEd, by Hugh E. Williams and David Lane, O’Reilly and Associates, May 2004. Learn how to build dynamic websites with PHP and SQL, with a special focus on the PEAR repository. 816 pages.

Usability

Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers, by Sarah Horton, New Riders, Jul 2005. This tells how to make sites accessible to everyone, with guidelines for creating each web element, for creating underlying structure, and for converting problem sites into working sites. 288 pages.

Building Accessible Websites, by Joe Clark, New Riders, Oct 2002. A compelling guide to techniques and practices to enhance the ability of websites to project messages accessible to everyone. Includes CD-ROM. 432 pages.

Design Accessible Web Sites: 36 Keys to Creating Content for All Audiences and Platforms, by Jeremy Sydik, Pragmatic, Nov 2007. This teaches basic principles and techniques for developing accessible HTML, audio, video, and multimedia content. 328 pages.

Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, by Jakob Nielsen, Dec 1999. Discusses how to create sites that truly meet the needs and expectations of users, covering web usability, page design, content design, site design, intranet design, and accessibility. 432 pages.

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, by Steve Krug, New Riders, Oct 2000. Shows how to: design pages for scanning, eliminate needless words, design a home page, and streamline design for user navigation. 195 pages.

Eyetracking Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice, New Riders, Mar 2008. Learn how much a user’s goal or task affects how they read and traverse a website, which parts of a page users attend to first, how readers react to ads and design elements that look like ads, where people look first for common page elements and navigation, how they respond to text, pictures, and multimedia, and more. 360 pages.

E-Commerce User Experience, by Jakob Nielsen, Rolf Molich, Carolyn Snyder, and Susan Farrell, Nielsen Norman Group, Jul 2001. 207 guidelines for designing more usable e-commerce sites, for those serious about making eCommerce sites work for users. 389 pages.

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web, by Jesse James Garrett, New Riders, Oct 2002. Introduces user-centered web design, with clear explanations and vivid illustrations that focus on ideas, giving the big picture of web user experience development, from strategy and requirements to information architecture and visual design. 208 pages.

Hot Text: Web Writing that Works, by Jonathan Price and Lisa Price, New Riders Publishing, Jan 2002. Shows how to write effective web content that meets diverse user needs. 512 pages.

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2^ndEd, by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, O’Reilly and Associates, Aug 2002. Learn how to apply principles of architecture and library science to design cohesive websites that are easy to use, manage, and expand.

Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone, by John M. Slatin and Sharron Rush, Addison-Wesley, Sep 2002. Addresses the need to make sites usable for those with disabilities, with design techniques and testing methods for complying with U.S. federal accessibility standards. User experiences illustrate difficulties encountered online. Discusses alternatives and design issues for forms, PDF documents, multimedia, and CSS. 640 pages.

Prioritizing Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger, New Riders, May 2006. Learn about site design, user experience and usability testing, navigation and search capabilities, old guidelines and prioritizing usability issues, page design and layout, content design, and more. 408 pages.

Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use, by Lorrie Cranor and Simson Garfinkel, O’Reilly and Associates, Aug 2005. A collection of 34 groundbreaking essays from leading security and human-computer interaction researchers on authentication, privacy and anonymity, secure systems, commercialization, and much more. 738 pages.

Son of Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design, by Vincent Flanders and Dean Peters, Sybex, Apr 2002. Learn how to design good sites by studying the web’s worst. Includes a CD with web design tools.

Web Design (General)

Content Critical: Gaining Competitive Advantage through High-Quality Web Content, by Gerry McGovern and Rob Norton, Prentice Hall, Nov 2001. Explains the theory and practice of producing compelling content on your website, showing how to organize a publishing team and create a web publishing strategy, revealing what high-quality content really is, and how to create it.

Designing With Web Standards, 2^ndEd, by Jeffrey Zeldman, New Riders Publishing, Jul 2006. Shows how to save time and money by making faster, leaner, more compatible web pages. 432 pages.

The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience, by Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, and Jason I. Hong. Addison-Wesley, Jul 2002. Well researched, concise book, with 100’s of examples. Describes recurring issues and trade-offs with specific design problems, presenting solutions you can modify or refine. 816 pages.

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers, by Steve Souders, O’Reilly and Associates, Sep 2007. This teaches 14 techniques for making websites which load faster. 168 pages.

Learning Web Design, by Jennifer Niederst, O’Reilly and Associates, Jun 2003. A starter book for those interested in web design.

Search Engine Advertising : Buying Your Way to the Top to Increase Sales, by Catherine Seda, New Riders Publishing, Feb 2004. Outlines the strategy in buying specific keyword positions to lead users to the page you want, describes how to turn poor-performing ad copy into targeted sales-getters, and shows how to evaluate and correct low visitor-to-buyer conversions. 368 pages.

Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, 3^rdEd, by Peter Kent, For Dummies Publishing, Jun 2008. This shows how to build sites that rank high in the search engines and that generate high traffic. 408 pages.

Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization, by Andrew B. King and Jakob Nielsen, New Riders Publishing, Jan 2003. This helps you speed up your web sites, with user psychology, CSS, JavaScript, HTML, xHTML, graphics, audio, and video optimization tips; plus search engine optimization and case studies of real websites.

Web Design in a Nutshell, 3^rdEd., by Jennifer Niederst, O’Reilly and Associates, Feb 2006. This is an authoritative reference for (X)HTML and CSS, and also has an overview of requirements of web design, with details about JavaScript and DOM scripting, web graphics optimization, and multimedia production. 704 pages.

Web Design on a Shoestring, by Carrie Bickner, New Riders Publishing, Oct 2003. Shows how to get more bang for the buck by careful project planning and by shrewd tool selection. 250 pages.

Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3^rdEd., by Stephen Spainhour and Robert Eckstein, O’Reilly and Associates, Dec 2002. A one-stop resource for HTML, CSS, XML, CGI, JavaScript, HTTP, PHP, and Apache.

Web Site Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for Building and Administering Your Web Site, by Doug Addison, O’Reilly and Associates, Feb 2006. This covers the essential skills you need to create engaging, visitor-friendly websites, addressing the practical issues regarding their inception, design, and maintenance. 280 pages.

The Web Programming CD Bookshelf, O’Reilly and Associates, Apr 2003. CD with 6 web programming guides, searchable and cross-referenced, including Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference 2^ndEd, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide 4^thEd, Programming PHP, Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, PHP Cookbook, and Webmaster In a Nutshell 3^rdEd.

XML

XML in a Nutshell, 3^rdEd, by Elliotte Rusty Harold and W. Scott Means, O’Reilly and Associates, Sep 2004. A clear, concise XML reference: a must-have for any XML developer. 712 pages.

XML Pocket Reference, 3^rdEd, by Simon St. Laurent, O’Reilly and Associates, Aug 2005. A handy introduction to XML terminology and syntax, and a quick reference to XML instructions, attributes, entities, and datatypes. 128 pages.

Other

Fonts & Encodings, by Yannis Haralambous, O’Reilly and Associates, Sep 2007. A comprehensive guide to using fonts and typography on the Web, across a variety of operating systems and application software. 1037 pages

PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3^rdEd, by Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, O’Reilly and Associates, Jul 2003. Timeless information for anyone running Windows or Linux, with fundamentals and general tips about working on PCs, and chapters focusing on motherboards, processors, memory, floppies, hard drives, optical drives, tape devices, video devices, input devices, audio components, communications, power supplies, and maintenance.

Unicode Explained, by Jukka K. Korpela, O’Reilly and Associates, Jun 2006. A comprehensive guide to using Unicode. 678 pages

The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0, by the Unicode Consortium, Addison-Wesley, Nov 2006. The authoritative guide to universal character encoding. Unicode is the basis of WWW character encoding. Includes comprehensive CD-ROM. 1472 pages.