Reading List

books you'd recommend for WmWers

[joshie76]

Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug (Usability)
HTML4 Visual Quick Start Guide by Elizabeth Castro (Beginner's HTML)
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman (Interaction Design)
The Non-Designers Design Book by Robin Williams (Design principles)

Has anybody read Jeffrey Veen's 'The Art and Science of Web Design'? What's it like?

What would you recommend as the must have paper companions?

[sarkye]

not sure if this qualifies in the category but I find How magazine indispensable.

It's not specifically a web design magazine but I think it's a first class resource and very inspirational. Has great features about the business side of the design industry too.

[click watcher]

its an oldie (1998)

but Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (o'Reilly)

not heavy going like o'reilly programming books,

still got valid concepts i think, although no contemporary real-world examples

[caine]

Web Protocols and Practices, AT&T labs, 2001 > amazing book, really gets down to what drives the web. About as heavy a book as you can get (well not quite principia mathmatica'), but indespensible.

JavaScript: The Definitive quide, O'rielly > once you understand js, then this book can take it further.

Webmaster in a Nutshell, O'rielly (2nd - sept 2001) an attempt to summarize the duties, concerns and practicies of a modern day webmaster (bought it last week, and though i am reading things i am shaky on, what i have read has not beg any questions as yet).

Learning Perl 2nd / 3rd edition. O'rielly - strong into to perl.

WebMasterWorld > no comment necessary !

Jakob Nielson's site > HCI (what you want and what a user of a site wants, worth a read of his site once in a while).

Many many more, stacks of books around my PC begging for me to read them, but a social life is neccessary.

[skibum]

Edward Tuft, O'Reilly and NewRiders books.

Focus and Positioning by Ries/Trout.

Roy Williams has some good marketing books.

The Invisible Touch - Beckwith

The Goal, Critical Chain, It's Not Luck - Goldratt

Not web or SEO specific, but great, easy to swallow (and revolutionary at the time they were printed) business books.

[zechariah]

talking about PERL can anyone recommend a good book on it for beginnes level ? I like those 21 days book u know Laura Lemay's famous title's are they any good for PERL - I sure need to learn this language.

[ritualcoffee]

"The Goal"

That book is amazing - even though it is primarily operations management, the concepts are useful in everything!

[Josk]

The Perl CD Booksheld...priceless!

[toadhall]

Zechariah - I think he Visual Quick Start on Perl is pretty good: Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web.
The last information industry oriented book I read, and found stimulating, was The Social Life of Information by Brown and Duguid.
Previously recommended books that I'll second are Ed Tuft's, D. Norman's, O'Reilly's Def. Guides.
The Yale Style Guide:
[info.med.yale.edu...]
is also available in print.
A good reading list can be found at Patrick Lynch's (Yale Stle Guide) site:
[patricklynch.net...]

[tedster]

I was touting this book on another thread -- Jakon Nielsen's: Home Page Usability - 50 Websites Deconstructed. It was just published in October.

Robin Williams also wrote The Non-Designer's Web Book

So far no one mentioned O'Reilly Cascading Style Sheets. Eric Meyer, the author, gives credit to Hakon Lie and Bert Bos for handling many questions that came up in creating the book -- so he went right to the source.

[netcommr]

I have read most of the material listed on this page, and all good stuff, but remember the writing of code is just a start. A properly written page, as far as code quality goes, is worthless is the page does not 'say' the right thing.

"You are what THEY read!" from 'Business Letters That Get Results' by J. Hamilton Jones

Study marketing, advertising, ad copy... be a great copywriter!!!

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zechariah - I like 'Perl Black Book' by Steve Holzner or 'Perl Cookbook' by O`Reilly

[Xoc]

The ones that I recommend for user interface design:

Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, Jakob Nielsen
The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman
About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, Alan Cooper
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, Alan Cooper
Visual Interface Design for Windows, Virginia Howlett
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte