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Reference Books
 | As an associate to Amazon.com, we are now able to offer a selection of books for Web Masters and Designers. Here you'll find picks and links to books available from Amazon.com which will be useful when authoring, designing or programming for the Web. You may also search for books containing a particular subject using the forms below.
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HTML & WWW
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The best way to learn the basics of HTML and the Web is to use a basic text editor in addition to a resource to read when you are offline. Below are some of the titles we can recommend.
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 | NEW: Creating Killer Web Sites, Second Edition
David Siegel's classic guide to good taste in Web design has been completely overhauled in this second edition. More of a style guide than an HTML guide, Creating Killer Web Sites is concerned with the building Web sites that are conceived by design and not by technological ability. The author overview a wide variety of topics, including a history of browsers, how to use specific HTML tags and advice on pure aesthetic design. This is an excellent introduction to the ideas involved with site design. However, because Creating Killer Web Sites is not a tutorial or HTML reference, you will need to supplement it with one.
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 | Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
Danny Goodman felt that he couldn't trust any of the documentation on Dynamic HTML (DHTML) that he read (too many contradictions), so he wrote this book as a reference for working with his own clients. After testing tags and techniques on multiple releases of the main browsers, Goodman came up with very practical information--some of which you may not find in any other resource.
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 | HTML : The Complete Reference
An industry expert gives detailed information about HTML through tutorials, important theory, and definitive references in a book that serves well as both a good introduction and complete HTML reference.
The book contains 16 chapters that includes examples of why and when to use specific aspects of HTML. It provides complete information about tags new to HTML 4.0 and the HTML and JavaScript extensions available in the Navigator, Explorer and Web TV browsers.
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 | Web Graphics Tools and Techniques
Web Graphics Tools and Techniques provides an indispensable resource for Website creators, teaching basic HTML coding, introducing scores of tools, explaining advanced techniques, and at all times bringing the discussion to life with hundreds of visually exciting full-color illustrations.
The author also writes about several of the software packages available to accomplish the tasks at hand; his favorites are Fractal Design Painter and Adobe Photoshop. He assumes that you're fairly familiar with the tools and that you're ready to extend your knowledge to designing good-looking Web graphics.
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 | HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide
Assuming no knowledge of HTML or the Internet, this book gives readers all the major HTML codes, plus many more, that they'll need to give style and pizzazz to their online oeuvres. With clear, concise instructions and lots of illustrations, this book reduces even such potentially daunting tasks as creating image maps and tables to a series of easy-to-follow steps.
It uses clear, concise instructions for creating each element of a Web page, and covers everything from titles and headers to complex tables and "clickable" graphics.
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JavaScript
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To get scripts and sharpen your scripting knowledge, check out the JavaScript Web sites in the books listed below.
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 | Javascript Bible
Greatly expanded and enhanced from the last edition,
this title is packed with
- all-new explanations
- lessons
- working scripts
covering the enhanced capability of JavaScript.
The CD includes over 100 sample scripts, on-screen quick-reference, and hundreds of megabytes of usable Web design elements and software.. |
 | JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide
This revamped edition provides an easy bridge for HTML users who are ready to tackle JavaScript. The book is aimed at the large group of less technical Web authors who know HTML but know nothing about programming.
Web designers will learn how to use JavaScript the quick and easy way with pictures rather than lengthy explanations.
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Java & Perl
| This last section contains books on Java and Perl, a powerful but somewhat terse and cryptic language used in many of the dynamic CGI-based services on the Web.
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 | Exploring Java
The second edition of "Exploring Java", fully revised to cover Version 1.1 of the JDK, introduces the basics of Java, the object-oriented programming language for networked applications.
The book shows you how to get up to speed writing Java applets and other applications, including networking programs, content and protocol handlers, and security managers. |
 | Learning Perl
Learning Perl is ideal for system administrators, programmers, and anyone else wanting a down-to-earth introduction to this useful language. Written by a Perl trainer, the book's aim is to make a competent, hands-on Perl programmer out of the reader as quickly as possible.
The book takes a step-by-step, hands-on tutorial approach and includes hundred of short code examples. |
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