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 | Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen
Buy new: $34.65 / Used from: $19.35 An effective web site is one that has been carefully crafted for usability.
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 | Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web Site by Mike Moran
Buy new: $37.11 / Used from: $0.17 This book covers the business side of web sites, including search engine marketing AND how to make your web site successful.
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 | Sign Me Up!: A Marketer's Guide To Email Newsletters that Build Relationships and Boost Sales by Matt Blumberg
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $2.75 Email is a necessity in today's internet world. This is really a marketing book but it's good for a developer to know the business and legal info about incorporating email newsletters into web design.
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 | CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by Andy Budd
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $1.45 I have this book on my desk and refer to it all the time. Of all the books on the list, this is my most often used right now.
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 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 for the Web Hands-On Training by Tanya Staples
Buy new: $37.11 / Used from: $0.67 For the longest time I just said "I don't do graphics." But a web developer must.
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 | PHP and MySQL Web Development (3rd Edition) by Luke Welling
Buy used from: $1.51 There's a 4th edition coming out soon. Wait for it...
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 | Advanced Perl Programming by Simon Cozens
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $12.29 This is for advanced perl users, obviously. If you're new, try Learning Perl.
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 | The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web by Dave Shea
Buy new: $29.69 / Used from: $5.00 Get into the beauty of good online graphic design by looking at the samples from this book. This is more about good design than it is about CSS - it's no reference.
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 | Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference by Danny Goodman
Buy new: $37.79 / Used from: $2.85 A reference for HTML, CSS, and Javascript that won't steer you wrong.
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 | XML Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) by Simon St. Laurent
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $1.70 The best way to store non-database type data is in an XML file.
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 | Unix in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition by Arnold Robbins
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $3.50 If you develop on the unix platform you need this reference.
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 | Essential CVS (Essentials) by Jennifer Vesperman
Buy new: $32.84 / Used from: $7.99 Web developers who work on a team or just like to keep track of their work should use CVS. This is a good CVS reference.
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 | Professional Web 2.0 Programming (Wrox Professional Guides) by Eric van der Vlist
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $4.86 I looked at this book at Borders and did not buy it because it seemed a little basic for me. But if you're new to web development, it will get you "up to speed" on today's trends.
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