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DIY Books

The books listed in this section, sold and shipped through Amazon.com, are all highly recommended by other do-it-yourselfers or are anticipated to be great resources once they have been released.

If you know of other books that might be of help to others, let us know and we'll post it in our DIY Books section. If you purchase a book and don't find it helpful, we'd like to know that as well.

       
Web Design (HTML, XHTMK, CSS )  
     
  Learning Web Design
Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. Learning Web Design starts from the beginning -- defining how the Web and web pages work -- and builds from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you'll know how to get your pages <more>		  
       
  CSS Mastery
While CSS is a relatively simple technology to learn, it is a difficult one to master. When you first start developing sites using CSS, you will come across all kinds of infuriating browser bugs and inconsistencies. It sometimes feels like there are a million and one different techniques to master, spread across a bewildering array of websites. <more> 		 
       
  Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns
Design patterns have been used with great success in software programming. They improve productivity, creativity, and efficiency in web design and development, and they reduce code bloat and complexity. In the context of CSS and HTML, design patterns are sets of common functionality that work across various browsers and <more> 		 
       
  HTML, XHTML & CSS
It's important for anyone who creates Web sites--even those who rely on powerful editors like Dreamweaver or GoLive--to know HTML. The World Wide Web Consortium rewrote HTML as a subset of XML (dubbing it "XHTML 1.0") and the allowable code will eventually be stricter. Tags that are being phased out are labeled "deprecated"--<more>		  
       
  Bulletproof Web Design
No matter how visually appealing or content-packed a Web site may be, if it's not adaptable to a variety of situations and reaching the widest possible audience, it isn't really succeeding. In Bulletproof Web Design, author and Web designer, Dan Cederholm outlines <more>		  
       
Navigation, Usability, Information Architecture  
       
  Designing Web Navigation
Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this best selling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation <more>
  
       
  Don't Make Me Think
Usability design is one of the most important--yet often least attractive--tasks for a Web developer. In Don't Make Me Think, author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humor and excellent, to-the-point examples. <more>		  
       
  Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of Wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer shows <more> 		 
       
  Balanced Website Design
Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths of traditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches and a sharp focus on defining and achieving the desired characteristics of purpose, usability and aesthetics - absolutely essential requirements for any website. The book includes discussions of new <more> 		 
       
Web Standards & Accessibility  
       
  Adapting to Web Standards
This title has not yet been released. You may pre-order it now and Amazon.com will ship it to you when it arrives. <more> 		 
       
  Web Accessibility: Standards and Regulatory Compliance
The power of the Web lies in the fact that anyone and everyone can access it, and this should also extend to users with disabilities. Accessibility is about making websites accessible to those with aural, visual, or physical disabilities, or rather, constructing websites that don't exclude these people from accessing the content or services <more> 		 
       
  Web Standards Creativity
Here at friends of ED, we know that as a web designer or developer, your work involves more than just working to pay the bills. We know that each day, you strive to push the boundaries of your medium, unleashing your creativity in new ways to make your websites more engaging and attractive to behold, while still maintaining <more> 		 
       
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing  
       
  Building Findable Websites
This title has not yet been released. You may pre-order it now and Amazon.com will ship it to you when it arrives. <more> 		 
       
  Search Engine Optimization Bible
Master the strategies, techniques, and shortcuts in this detailed SEO guide and you can improve your web site's search rankings and start driving the targeted traffic you want to your virtual door.
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  The Ultimate Guide to Search Engine Marketing
Is your ultimate goal to have more customers come to your Web site? You can increase your Web site traffic by more than 1,000 percent through the expert execution of Pay Per Click Advertising. With PPC advertising you are only drawing highly qualified visitors to your Web site! PPC brings you fast results and you can reach your target audience <more> 		 
       
  Actionable Web Analytics
Relationship marketing continues to evolve in new and exciting ways, and Actionable Web Analytics provides a clear and concise guidebook for the marketing executive. Shane and Jason have captured the essence of creating relationships online <more> 		 
       
Web 2.0  
       
  Unleashing Web 2.0
The emergence of Web 2.0 is provoking challenging questions for developers: What products and services can our company provide to customers and employees using Rich Internet Applications, mash-ups, Web feeds or Ajax? Which business models are appropriate and how do we implement them? What are best practices and how do we apply them? <more> 		 
       
  Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools
What is Web 2.0? Once upon a time, Web sites were isolated information "silos"--all content and no functionality. Today, the next generation of Web sites gives power to the end-user, providing visitors with a new level of customization, interaction, and participation. Many Web sites <more>
 
       
  Trademark 2.0: ...Your Value in the Web 2.0 World Enterprise 2.0 commonly refers to organizations that operate under an open communication model where interaction and communication is encouraged from the top down. Enterprises are accomplishing this feat by not only addressing the technology requirements of Web 2.0 but the social and organizational changes required to sustain <more>  
       
Other  
       
  Microformats
Microformats burst onto the scene a couple of years ago and are fast becoming an essential tool for all professional web designers and developers. Imagine being able to integrate all of your web-based contact details, tagged articles, and geographical information seamlessly in web and desktop applications, without having to add anything extra <more> 		 
       
  Communicating Design
Most discussion about Web design seems to focus on the creative process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of deliverables—the documentation (concept model, site maps, usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary communication tool between designers and customers. Here at last is a guide devoted to <more>