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XHTML/HTML, CSS And Other Web Design Books Available At Amazon.com

Over the years lots of students have asked what books do I like when it comes to web design. These are some of my trusted favorites which I still find myself running to whenever i get stumped. No Dummy books here. Why? You're not a dummy!!

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HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS
Elizabeth Castro's industry standard is a solid buy. A great HOW TO reference. I use it all the time. It helped create my Workshop.

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CSS in 10 Minutes
I remember when they used to give you 24 hours to learn something but no more. Still, I love this book.

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Javascript For The World Wide Web
While outside the scope of Joy Of Code, learning a little Javascript could not hurt. JS, among other things, can put a little brains into your otherwise stateless XHTML.

This book provides an overall perspective and provides lots of great examples.

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HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide
You can't learn XHTML/HTML - the stuff of which web pages are made - without this book. This one is used in lots of classrooms.

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Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web
If you really want to learn Cascading Style Sheets, go to the masters, Hakon Wium Lie and Bert Bos. Why? Who better to know about CSS than the guys who developed the specs?

Could not have made my Workshop, or any project I've ever worked on, without this book!!

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Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
Jakob Nielsen's tour de force is a discussion of creating sites that humans can use. It's not a How To.

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Web Site Design Goodies
So, you want some goodies, huh?

Answers the big question "Who is your site for and why would they want to visit it?"

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Eric Meyer On CSS
Each chapter is a project that gets you working with CSS. Learn how to transform a bad, old page into a good, new one and much more.

Lots of support files to download and work with.

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Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
You can learn all the markup in the world, but without a sense of style, a sense of typography which puts it all together, then what's the sense? This one's a staple for this world.

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Constructing Accessible Web Sites
This is The Book.

Written by industry experts much of The Living Textbook was inspired by what this book offers.

If you're only going to buy one book on accessible web design this is it!!

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PERL And CGI
This really isn't for a beginner although it was the first book I ever bought to get me started with the magic of PERL - the most widely used programming language on the web.

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