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What books should I read?

• General Design/Usability/Accessibility

  • Cooper, A. (1995).  About face, the essentials of user interface design.   IDG Books Worldwide. 

  • Cooper, A. (1999). The Inmates are running the asylum.   

  • Flandeers, V & Willis, M (1998) . Web pages that Suck. Sybex 

  • Fleming, J. (1998) . Web navigation, designing the user experience. O’Reilly & Associates. 

  • Hackos, Joann. Redish, Janice. (1998). User and Task Analysis for Interface Design. John Wiley & Sons.  
    
  • Krug , S (2000) Don't Make Me Think. Que. 
    

  • Lynch, P. & Horton, S. (1999). Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites. Yale University Press. 

  • Nielsen, J. (1999). Designing Web Usability: The practice of Simplicity. New Riders. 

  • Paciello, M. (2000). Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities. CMP Books   

  • Pearrow,  M.  (2000) Web Site Usability Handbook.  Charles River Media  

  • Powell, T. (2000) Web Design: The Complete Reference. McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing.   

  • Tufte, E (1983), The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.  Graphics Press.   

  • Tufte, E (1990), Envisioning Information.  Graphics Press.   

  • Tufte, E (1997), Visual Explanations.  Graphics Press.   

  • Williams, R. and Tollett J. (1998). The Non-Designer's Web Book: An Easy Guide to Creating, Designing and Posting Your Own Web Site. Peachpit Press.   

  •  Zeldman, J. (2003). Designing with Web Standards. New Riders Press.

• HTML/DHTML

  • Goodman, D (1998). Dynamic HTML: the Definitive Reference.  O’Reilly & Associates. 

  • IEEE Standard 2001-1999 IEEE Recommended Practice for Internet Practices-Web Page Engineering - Intranet/Extranet Applications.   

  • Musciano,  C. Kennedy, B, & Loukides M. (1998) . HTML: The Definitive Guide O’Reilly & Associates.   

  • Tittel, E, James,S. & Scott, C. (1997) .  More HTML for Dummies. IDG Books.   

• Cascading Style Sheets

  • Meyer, E. (2000). Cascading Style Sheets, the Definitive Guide. O’Reilly & Associates. 

  • Meyer, E.  (2002). Mastering the Language of Web Design. New Riders Press

  • Lie, J, Bos, Bert . (1999) . Cascading Style Sheets, Designing for the Web, second edition.  Addison-Wesley Pub Co  

• Java

  • Dietel, H, Dietel, P. (1999) .Java How to Program. Prentice Hall.   

  • Flanangan, D. (1999) . Java in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference.   O’Reilly & Associates.   

  • Lemay, L, Cadenhead,R (2000). Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days. SAMS.   

• JavaScript

  • Flanagan,D. (1998). Javascript: The Definitive Guide. O’Reilly & Associates 

  • Gilliam, J. Charlton Ting, and R. Allen Wyke(1999). Pure Javascript.  Sams 

  • Goodman, D. (2001). Javascript Bible, 4th Edition..  Hungry Minds   

  • Heinle, N & Siegel, D. (1997) . Designing With JavaScript : Creating Dynamic Web Pages (Web Review Studio Series) . O’Reilly & Associates.   

  • Neou, V. HTML 4.0 CD With JavaScript . Prentice Hall.   

  • Wyke, A; Gilliam, J. (1999). Pure Javascript, A Code-Intensive Premium Reference. SAMS Publishing.   

• Perl

  • Hoffman, P; (1997). Perl 5 for Dummies. IDG Books.   

  • Quigley, E; (1998). Perl by Example. Prentice Hall.   

  • Schwartz, R, Christiansen, T, Wall, L, (1997). Learning Perl.   O’Reilly & Associates.   

  • Wall, L, Christiansen, T, Schwartz, R. (1996). Programming Perl.   O’Reilly & Associates.    

• Systems Administration/ Security

  • Frisch, A (1995). Essential System Administration. O’Reilly & Associates 

  • Norrthcutt, S. (1999). Network Intrusion Detection: An Analyst's Handbook. New Riders   

  • Ruben, A, Greer, Ranum. (1997). Web Security Source Book. John Wiley and Sons 

  • Stein Lincon, (1997). How to Set up and Maintain a Web Site. Addison-Wesley 
    

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