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Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A Developer's Guide to SEO 19 reviews
Jaimie Sirovich, Cristian Darie
Wrox, 2007
The best book I've seen on the subject.
+ Get Your Playground Up and Running
+ Amazing book
+ Excellent book for developers
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Web Standards Programmer's Reference : HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and PHP 3 reviews
Steven M. Schafer
Wrox, 2005
replaces 6 books [one for each language]
How the Web has grown! In doing so, and aiding its growth, has been the use and development of several languages. Naturally, Schafer starts with the language that birthed the Web - HTML. Actually this needs its dual ("twin") on a server, http. But Schafer discusses http in a later chapter devoted ...
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The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter) 86 reviews
Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag
Peachpit Press, 2005
Extremely well written book!
+ Great addition to a great website.
+ Beautiful work - companion to website.
Very readable and enjoyable book. The authors' carefully chosen example designs are dissected to highlight key CSS concepts. The process examples were especially enlightening for me. Even the references at end of the book were spot-on.
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Blogging for Business: Everything You Need to Know and Why You Should Care18 reviews
Shel Holtz, Ted Demopoulos
Kaplan Business, 2006
Great Book on Blogging
+ Great Reference Book
+ Best how-to book on blogging
+ good legal perspective
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Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP and MySQL44 reviews
Kevin Yank
SitePoint, 2004
Excellent Book
+ A good book for getting started with php and databases.
+ Sitepoint PHP and MySQL
I highly recomend this book. I think it best serves those who already know the syntax of PHP, but it is a excellent book. I recomend either "Learning PHP" (The O'Reilly book) or "PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide" for a beginner. Both of these books will help you learn the syntax ...
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Second Life: The Official Guide61 reviews
Michael Rymaszewski, Wagner James Au, ...
Sybex, 2006
A Beginner's Guide to Second Life
+ Free guide to Second Life
+ Good starter
+ second life
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WordPress 2 (Visual QuickStart Guide) 21 reviews
Maria Langer, Miraz Jordan
Peachpit Press, 2006
Clear and Easy to Follow (especially with the Pictures)
+ Good resource overall, but a bit short on important details
I found the book clear and very easy to follow. The pictures might be a bit bigger. But compared to WordPress for dummies, which focuses less on WordPress on your own server, I found WordPress 2 great. I can follow what is going on and what to do. That is what I sought. It makes everything (or ...
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The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right17 reviews
Debbie Weil
Portfolio Hardcover, 2006
How to communicate "the inside story, the pulse, the personality of your company"
+ A great overview of blogging for the corporate world, and small businesses too.
+ Avoids material covered elsewhere, addresses real world issues
+ Good resource for business communicators
+ Should Be Required Reading
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RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)22 reviews
Michael Hartl, Aurelius Prochazka
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007
Greatg starter book for RoR
+ Great Intro to Ruby on Rails
+ Smacks of zealotry
This book is teriffic. I started my journey into RoR by buying the two canonical starter books, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide and Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition. These are solid, rich repositories of information, but I was still having trouble understanding ...
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PHP 5 / MySQL Programming for the Absolute Beginner (For the Absolute Beginner)16 reviews
Andy Harris
Course Technology PTR, 2004
Works for Macs, too!
+ Good for PHP basics
+ PHP 5/MySQL Programming for the absolute beginner
When it comes to programming, Mac users appear to be at a disadvantage. However, with a little research via the internet, I've been able to take advantage of the programming material that is mostly geared towards Windows. This book is no exception. The most difficult part of the process is getting ...
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Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work (Interactive Technologies)10 reviews
Tom Brinck, Darren Gergle, ...
Morgan Kaufmann, 2001
Seven user navigation models are excellent
+ One more thing to make it more usable...
+ Most elaborate book
+ The best book for web usability..!
+ My usability bible
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Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL11 reviews
Michael Schrenk
No Starch Press, 2007
barry naice!
+ :-) bots
+ Excellent Source
+ Excellent cURL primer
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Ajax Hacks: Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites (Hacks)14 reviews
Bruce Perry
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006
Wonderful AJAX Companion Book
+ CLEANING UP WITH AJAX!!
+ Once you have the basics down...
AJAX Hacks by Bruce Perry is a wonderful companion book for any and all AJAX programmers. AJAX has revolutionized the web programming world, enabling developers to write web pages that act more like real applications that we all know and love. AJAX is a simple technology that allows people to do ...
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del.icio.us Mashups 1 review
Brett O'Connor
Wrox, 2007
Mmmmm.....del.icio.us!
For those of you who like to mash things, especially del.icio.us things - you must read this book! Not only is Brett O'Connor a del.icio.us expert, he can also string together a bunch of words like "API" "PHP/MySQL" and "aggregate" without sounding too geeky or scaring off those of us who are not ...
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Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional8 reviews
Lee Babin
Apress, 2006
Stephen Rider's Review is Dead On...
Wish I'd read the reviews more carefully before buying this book. Stephen Rider's criticisms are exactly right. I was particularly disappointed with excessive use of the innerHTML object. It's been deprecated and should not have been included in a book published in 2007. The long code examples are ...
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Plug Your Book! Online Book Marketing for Authors, Book Publicity through Social Networking116 reviews
Steve Weber
Weber Books, 2007
A Concrete, Step by Step Guide to Marketing On Line
+ Contains so much excellent information that I tabbed nearly EVERY page!
+ Best Guide on Book Promotion!
+ Worth Checking Out
+ Marketing Masterpiece
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PHP for the World Wide Web, Third Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Larry Ullman
Peachpit Press, 2008
Need to learn PHP fast? Try a Visual QuickStart ! This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with the PHP scripting language in no time! In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide PHP for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide , leading Web scripting expert Larry Ullman uses ...
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Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional)96 reviews
W. Jason Gilmore
Apress, 2006
Excellent Book
+ [Third Edition Review] Broad coverage except in XML manipulation
I own several PHP/Mysql reference books, and this one is the most comprehensive of all of them. Just the right balance and written descriptions/explanations and practical applications/examples. I wouldn't necessarily say this book is for beginners, but anyone that's a novice to professional would ...
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Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (VOICES)28 reviews
Biz Stone
New Riders Press, 2002
simple usage
+ Showing its age but still very relevant.
Stone takes us on a tour of what is available for you to start and run your own blog website. A lot of it is surprisingly easy to master. Many content management packages have been written specifically for blogging, and come free or cheap.
He also offers suggestions about financing your site ...
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Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers49 reviews
Robert Scoble, Shel Israel
Wiley, 2006
Unabashed admiration of nakedness
+ Leading through transparent communication
+ Makes you think
+ Great for business owners and media and web junkies
+ A Must Read for All Want-to-be Bloggers
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