These are books that I have used while both teaching
IT & developing web sites. I bought most of them
off Amazon and would recommend that as the place to
go to purchase any book simply & probably more cheaply.
Click on any Amazon link or book picture for a quick
link to Amazon site and that book.
There are basically two types of books you can get.
Dreamweaver Hands on Training
by Lynda Weinman. Years ago I used
the HOT Training book when I first started
to put together web pages and wanted to move
from FrontPage to Dreamweaver. Its a very
good hands on book and reference guide. This
is a how to book & a good one. |
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The definitive guide to JavaScript
- O'Reilly
O'Reilly are the definitive when it comes to
IT programming reference guides and this book
is no exception. A must have bible if you are
into Javascript. |
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Keeping Ahead - Javascript and VBScript.
This is a good book if you are moving from DHTML
to working with server side technologies. You
have possibly like me gone for ASP written in
VBscript. This is a comparison between the two
and a great reference if you are switching from
one to the other. |
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ASP in a Nutshell. O'Reilly
O'Reilly again and once again the best reference
book on this subject that I have found. |
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Web Design in a Nutshell - O'Reilly. This
book is great for designers who have covered
the basics but want a guide that will list information.
If you seriously having a go at building a website
then you must learn HTML. You cannot just get
away with using a WYSWYG forever. The lists
of colour names & codes and HTML tags & their
attributes in here is great. |
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Dreamweaver in a Nutshell - O'Reilly
Once again this is a reference guide not a learn
how to book but its amongst the best there is.
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WebMaster In a Nutshell - O'Reilly
This is more for people who are going to be looking
after a web server or website. It includes information
on the technical spect of web sites likes security
etc. |
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Creating Killer Websites by David
Siegel.
To be honest it's quite out of date now but nevertheless
I found it interesting to read about 3rd Generation
websites and how the web has moved on. It gave
me some good ideas & I think the key point
is that when you approach a project get ideas
from wherever you can. |
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HTML for the WWW - PeachPitt Press
These books are an alternative to the O'Reilly
ones. Not quite as good as a total reference guide
but they also include lots of examples and you
can access the website to download the examples
too. |
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DHTML for the WWW
I have the older version of this and it was great
when I was learning cascading style sheets (CSS). |
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XML for the WWW - PeachPitt Press
I am a fan of their books so when I started to
do XML I looked for and bought this book. I wasn't
dissapointed. |
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XMLIn a Nutshell - O'Reilly
This is the best reference guide I have used
for XML. Its been updated since I bought mine
and now has a lot more information about Schema's
etc in it than mine did. |
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Access 97 Further Skills - Letts Educational If
you are fetting to grips with Access and need
a book to take the next step up from the very
basics I have not found a better book. Access
hasn't changed that much functionally so this
book isn't really out of date yet you just have
to remember that the dialogue boxes look slightly
different thats all. Its still the best book
around. |
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Access 2000 An advanced Course for
Students This is written by the same
authors who wrote Access 97 Further Skills
but I didn't think it was as good. Still
its a bit more up to date.
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ECDL Made Simple The best
ECDL Handbook around by a mile. |
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MS Frontpage If you are using
MS Frontpage instead try this one. |
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