Books

If you’re a Flash designer or developer picking up Flash CS4 Professional for the first time, or a user upgrading from a prior version, you’ll want O’Reilly’s newest publication, Learning Flash CS4 Professional: Getting Up to Speed with Flash, by your side.
Learning Flash CS4 Professional: Getting Up to Speed with Flash offers beginners and intermediate [...]

This news about Google Book Search changes everything for US users. Seriously, being able to legally view 20% of a book from home, on Google is pretty cool. And in fairness to the copyright holders, the only way one can look at the entire thing on a computer is from the local library. Seems reasonable [...]

SitePoint recently announced the release of Sexy Web Design, an easy-to-follow guide that teaches the secrets to building breathtaking Web interfaces from scratch.
The book’s author, Elliot Jay Stocks, an independent designer whose client list includes Blue Flavor, The Beatles, EMI Records, and Carsonified, is widely regarded as a leader in the craft of making things [...]

Programming Groovy will help you learn the necessary fundamentals of programming in Groovy. You’ll see how to use Groovy to do advanced programming techniques including metaprogramming, Bbilders, unit testing with mock objects, processing XML, working with databases, and creating your own domain-specific languages (DSLs).
Groovy brings you the best of both worlds: a flexible, highly productive, [...]

Stop wasting time doing Internet searches only to find inaccurate, out-of-date, or incomplete information. CSS: The Ultimate Reference includes all the ins-and-outs you need to know including compatability information for all major browsers, lists of useful hacks, known bugs in CSS, and much more — all presented in a beautiful, full color layout that will [...]

Tired of getting swamped in the nitty-gritty of cross-browser, Web 2.0-grade JavaScript? Get back in the game with Prototype and script.aculo.us, two extremely popular JavaScript libraries, that make it a walk in the park. Be it AJAX, drag and drop, auto-completion, advanced visual effects, or many other great features, all you need is write one or [...]

It’s common knowledge that yin and yang symbolize opposition between certain objects. However, yin and yang are also inseparable, forever combined as a cornerstone in all universal processes. Similarly, fonts and encodings are also two opposing sides of a spectrum which, when working together, form an inseparable duo essential to digital writing.
In the exciting new [...]

Learning ASP.NET isn’t difficult. Not only are the concepts straightforward, but also the Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer environments radically simplify the process of building powerful Web applications. Yet learning how to weave the many pieces together to assemble a robust, flexible, and efficient application can be challenging.
Fortunately O’Reilly’s newest title — Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with [...]

“It’s never too late to learn Web design,” says Jennifer Niederst Robbins, a professional Web designer and teacher for some 14 years. Indeed, her infectious enthusiasm for creating exciting site designs is sure to captivate readers of her latest publication, Learning Web Design, 3rd Edition: A Beginner’s Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics.
This thoroughly [...]

I have a confession. I haven’t read enough books from the Web design category to justify creating a top 10 list for books. But I’ve read or heard about a few good ones that are worth mentioning:
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design: The author of this one has a feature [...]

To address the latest and greatest advances in Web development, author Dave Thau is out with The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide to Interactive Web Pages. This new edition of the popular JavaScript guide has been completely updated with coverage of Ajax and features new examples throughout to reflect today’s Web environment.
“Dave [...]

CSS is no longer a subject that can be set aside by Web designers until they have a convenient time to learn it: its use is more widespread than ever and it’s become a fundamental skill in Web design. According to Eric A. Meyer, noted CSS expert and author of CSS: The Definitive Guide, CSS [...]

Before investing hundreds of dollars on expensive software, you want to make sure that editing digital photographs is something you truly enjoy. That’s where “The GIMP 2″ - a free digital image editing program - comes in. After you have explored the GIMP and learned how to use it, you may not need - nor [...]

Taking photos during a morning sunrise on a New Mexican mesa can be a once in a lifetime chance. Yet once you’ve captured the painterly image, how do you share the true colors and emotional veracity of the near outer-worldly palette with others?
Because no matter which type of digital camera is used to shoot an [...]

With all the buzz about Web 2.0, Ajax, and other up-and-coming technologies, you don’t hear much about plain old HTML. In fact, entire Web sites are created by people with no HTML knowledge at all, thanks to some of the design tools available today. But underneath it all, HTML perseveres: the tireless workhorse of the [...]

Revered by some for its capabilities and disdained by others for its simplicity, JavaScript has moved in and out of the limelight since its introduction in 1995. The recent flurry of enthusiasm for Ajax - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - has brought JavaScript solidly into prominence once more: “The big word in Web development now [...]

The second edition of one of my favorite Web design-related books is out and Don’t Make Me Think! is a winner.
The book provides value to everyone — even managers, testers and project managers. Management likes to get their hands a little dirty when it comes to Web design projects and sharing this book may make [...]

This is the first Firefox book I’ve read, so it won’t have a comparison to any of the others — as a few books hit the market soon after Firefox started nipping at Internet Explorer’s market share of the browser market.
Chapter 1 kicks off the book with an introduction explaining why Firefox is a first-rate [...]

Having been in process management in a software organization for over ten years, I’ve seen too many articles and books on the topic that worked better than Valium for putting me to sleep especially since they have no side effects. Joel Spolsky is known as one of the best (if not the best) writers on [...]

In the last few years, books on CSS have crowded the book shelves as designers clamored to better understand how to use the mighty tool that blew away tables. This, however, isn’t just another book on CSS its syntax, and positioning. Professional CSS uses real Web sites to show how the designer did the work [...]