Web design and development book reviews
Reading a good book related to web design or development can be very inspiring. To help you decide what to read, I have written brief reviews of books that are of interest to web professionals.
AdvancED DOM Scripting (Book review)
Jeffrey Sambells and Aaron Gustafson explain the best practices of DOM scripting in an easy-to-read and straightforward way.
Beginning CSS Web Development (Book review)
Simon Collison shares his experiences from working with the Web in the hopes that it will help readers avoid some confusion and frustration.
Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax (Book review)
Chris Heilmann explains how to write modern, unobtrusive, and accessible JavaScript.
Blog Design Solutions
A great help to anyone who is about to set up a blog and wants to know which blogging engine to use (or how to build their own).
Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications (Book review)
A great introduction to Ruby on Rails, the framework everyone is talking about.
Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way (Book review)
Finally a book that teaches beginners how to build websites with modern methods. Highly recommended.
Building Accessible Websites
Web accessibility is something that the vast majority of all web professionals know little to nothing about. Some believe that…
Bulletproof Ajax (Book review)
Jeremy Keith explains how to use Ajax in an unobtrusive manner, minimising the negative impact it can have on accessibility.
Bulletproof Web Design (Book review)
Dan Cederholm provides a great reference to modern, flexible, and responsible web design techniques.
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
A book that is a great guide to CSS tips, tricks, and techniques, and contains extensive coverage of browser bugs, hacks, and filters.
DHTML Utopia (Book review)
A very helpful book for anyone looking to improve and modernise their DOM scripting skills.
DOM Scripting (Book review)
Learn how to write unobtrusive JavaScript with progressive enhancement and graceful degradation in mind.
Defensive Design For the Web
If there is one single rule that always holds within web design and development, it’s that something will go wrong…
Design Accessible Web Sites (Book review)
Jeremy Sydik explains how to design accessible websites without focusing too much on guidelines and ticking checkboxes, choosing a more pragmatic approach instead.
Designing Interfaces (Book review)
Jenifer Tidwell explains design patterns that solve common problems encountered when designing user interfaces for websites as well as web and desktop applications.
Designing Web Navigation (Book review)
Learn the fundamentals of navigation design and design better navigation systems for large and small sites as well as for web based applications.
Designing Web Usability
My review of this must-have book by Jakob Nielsen.
Designing with Web Standards
I waited for a long time before buying this book, thinking it wouldn’t contain much new to me. When I…
Designing with Web Standards, 2nd Edition (Book review)
Jeffrey Zeldman updates his excellent introduction to Web standards. A must read for anyone serious about Web design.
Don’t Make Me Think
My review of an excellent book on usability.
Eric Meyer on CSS
I had been advocating the use of web standards for a long time before I bought this book, but it…
Getting Things Done (Book review)
Learn how to reduce stress and improve productivity by getting things out of your brain and into a trustworthy system of folders and lists.
HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS (Book review)
Patrick Griffiths transforms the HTML Dog website into a book promoting best practice XHTML and CSS.
HTML Mastery (Book review)
Paul Haine explains how to use the elements and attributes available in HTML to create structured, valid, and semantic markup.
Just Ask - Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design (Book review)
Shawn Lawton Henry’s book tells you how to improve the accessibility of your website or product by involving people with disabilities throughout your projects.
Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS (Book review)
Virginia DeBolt teaches beginners and designers and developers who need to update their skills how to write standards-based HTML and CSS.
Microformats (Book review)
John Allsopp explains what microformats are and how to use them to enhance the semantics of your markup.
Mobile Web Design (Book review)
Cameron Moll explains how to design and develop websites for the incredible amount of people accessing the Web from their mobile phones.
More Eric Meyer on CSS
This follow-up to Eric Meyer on CSS has more of the same, and is just as good as the first…
Prioritizing Web Usability (Book review)
Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger revisit usability guidelines from the 1990s and reapply them to the Web of today.
Pro CSS Techniques (Book review)
Jeff Croft, Ian Lloyd, and Dan Rubin explain solid, practical CSS techniques that you can use in real, professional Web projects.
Pro JavaScript Techniques (Book review)
John Resig dives into the deep end and explains really advanced JavaScript. The Pro in this book’s title is no joke.
Simply JavaScript (Book review)
Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams get together and deliver a book that teaches how to write modern JavaScript.
Speed Up Your Site
A review of Andrew King’s book on website optimisation. Learn how to make your site faster.
The Art and Science of CSS (Book review)
Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith, and Jonathan Snook get together to deliver some good tips on implementing design elements with CSS.
The Elements of Typographic Style
A review of Robert Bringhurst’s classic book on typography.
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (Book review)
Alan Cooper describes how lack of interaction design makes software and high-tech products hard to use.
The JavaScript Anthology (Book review)
If you’re not a JavaScript enthusiast now, you will be by the time you finish reading this book. A must-have.
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design (Book review)
Jason Beaird explains the principles of graphic design for the Web in a way that people who aren’t graphic designers can understand.
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Book review)
Andy Clarke combines technical know-how and wicked graphic design skills to create a fantastic, forward-looking book on CSS.
Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance (Book review)
An excellent and very well-written book that explains the various aspects of Web accessibility in depth.
Web Standards Creativity (Book review)
Ten well-known Web professionals explain their approach to solving a specific problem each, all with web standards and accessibility in mind.
Web Standards Solutions
A review of Dan Cederholm’s excellent book on practical web standards.
ppk on JavaScript (Book review)
Peter-Paul Koch has taken his extensive knowledge and experience and condensed it into a book that explains modern, accessible, and unobtrusive JavaScript.
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