Books I Recommend

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  Designing with Web Standards

  By Jeffery Zeldman

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  This is not a how-to book but a classic industry guidebook about WHY web standards are important and how they can be used to produce semantic markup properly separated from presentational styling, improve code weight, increase accessibility. You can't go on being a web developer without reading this one cover to cover.

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  JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual

  By David Sawyer McFarland

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  A great introduction to javascript and jQuery. I learned almost all I needed to know reading this book.

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  Web Designer's Guide to WordPress

  By Jesse Friedman

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  Excellent source for wordpress developers. If you want to learn how to build a wordpress theme and do custom wordpress development, this is the book for you.

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  HTML, XHTML, and CSS

  By Elizabeth Castro

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  I learned web basics with this book. Its easy to understand and well organized and definitely comes in handy as a reference book. Need to learn HTML and CSS fast? Pick this book up.

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  HTML5: The Missing Manual

  By Matthew MacDonald

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  This expanded guide covers everything you need in one convenient place. With step-by-step tutorials and real-world examples, HTML5: The Missing Manual shows you how to build web apps that include video tools, dynamic graphics, geolocation, offline features, and responsive layouts for mobile devices.

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  jQuery Cookbook

  By Cody Lindley

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  jQuery simplifies building rich, interactive web frontends. Getting started with this JavaScript library is easy, but it can take years to fully realize its breadth and depth; this cookbook shortens the learning curve considerably. With these recipes, you'll learn patterns and practices from 19 leading developers who use jQuery for everything from integrating simple components into websites and applications to developing complex, high-performance user interfaces.

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  Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

  By Nicholas C. Zakas

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  If you want to achieve JavaScript's full potential, it is critical to understand its nature, history, and limitations. To that end, this updated version of the bestseller by veteran author and JavaScript guru Nicholas C. Zakas covers JavaScript from its very beginning to the present-day incarnations including the DOM, Ajax, and HTML5.

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  PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites

  By Larry Ullman

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  MySQL and PHP provide a winning open-source combination. Add this book to the mix, and there's no limit to the powerful, interactive Web sites that developers can create. With step-by-step instructions, complete scripts, and expert tips to guide readers, veteran author and database designer Larry Ullman gets right down to business