Web Design Bibliography

you’ll learn the real secrets of creating web pages, and, most importantly, you’ll learn them in a way that won’t put you to sleep. If you’ve read a Head First book, you know what to expect: a visually-rich format designed for the way your brain works. Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory, this book will load HTML and CSS into your brain in a way that sticks.
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    HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites
    By Jon Duckett
    John Wiley & Sons, November 2011
    ISBN: 9781118206911
    513 pages, $29.99

    This book introduces HTML and CSS in a way that makes them accessible to everyone — hobbyists, students, and professionals — and it’s full-color throughout. It utilizes information graphics and lifestyle photography to explain the topics in a simple way that is engaging. In addition, it boasts a unique structure that allows you to progress through the chapters from beginning to end or just dip into topics of particular interest at your leisure. This educational book is one that you will enjoy picking up, reading, then referring back to.
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    JavaScript: The Good Parts
    By Douglas Crockford
    O’Reilly Media, Inc., May 2008
    ISBN: 9780596517748
    172 pages, $49.99

    This book identifies the abundance of good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language-ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. The author digs through the steaming pile of good intentions and blunders to give you a detailed look at all the genuinely elegant parts of JavaScript, including: syntax, objects, functions, inheritance, arrays, regular expressions, methods, style, and beautiful features. As you move ahead with the subset of JavaScript that this book presents, you’ll also sidestep the need to unlearn all the bad parts.
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    Head First HTML5 Programming
    By Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson
    O’Reilly Media, Inc., October 2011
    ISBN: 9781449314712
    610 pages, $49.99

    What can HTML5 do for you? If you’re a web developer looking to use this new version of HTML, you might be wondering how much has really changed. This book introduces the key features, including improved text elements, audio and video tags, geolocation, and the Canvas drawing surface, and uses concrete examples and exercises to apply and reinforce these concepts.
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    Head First jQuery
    By Ryan Benedetti, Ronan Cranley
    O’Reilly Media, Inc. September 2011
    ISBN: 9781449311988
    544 pages, $39.99

    Want to add more interactivity and polish to your websites? Discover how jQuery can help you build complex scripting functionality in just a few lines of code. This book shows you how to navigate HTML documents while handling events, effects, callbacks, and animations. By the time you’ve completed the book, you’ll be incorporating Ajax apps, working seamlessly with HTML and CSS, and building your own plug-ins.
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    Head First JavaScript
    By Michael Morrison
    O’Reilly Media, Inc., December 2007
    ISBN: 9780596527747
    652 pages, $23.13

    This book is your ticket to going beyond copying and pasting the code from someone else’s web site, and writing your own interactive web pages. You will learn: the basics of programming, from variables to types to looping, how the web browser runs your code, and how you can talk to the browser with your code; why you’ll never have to worry about casting, overloading, or polymorphism when you’re writing JavaScript code; and how to use the Document Object Model to change your web pages without making your users click buttons. It starts where HTML and CSS leave off, and takes you through your first program into more complex programming concepts, like working directly with the web browser’s object model and writing code that works on all modern browsers.
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    JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual, Second Edition
    By David Sawyer McFarland
    O’Reilly Media, Inc., October 2011
    ISBN: 9781449317812
    536 pages, $39.99

    This manual shows you how the jQuery library makes JavaScript programming fun, easy, and accessible to web designers at every level of experience. You’ll quickly learn how to use