These are books I used as
reference when designing this site and when I was messing
with all of those framesets and scripts. Some of you who
know about website layout may be thinking I should have read
somewhere not to make visitors scroll too much. Well, I've
chosen to ignore that rule. If the information you see is
not interesting or valuable enough for you to scroll for it,
why on earth would you click through the same information
when it is separated into twenty tiny little pages? And
knowing this to be true I will not waste my time and yours
scattering information into many small pages thus making
things more tedious for both you and I. What bugs me is that
the "designers" who suggest such things have gone
to school somewhere to learn this stuff. So, I am going a
different route and using my own esthetic and my own
decisions on when an where to make divisions in pages and
subjects.
JavaScript for the World Wide Web
by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith
This is your basic introduction to JavaScript.
Very handy.
DHTML for the World Wide Web
by Jason Crawford Teague
Explains just what DHTML
is. This book is very useful for discovering the
differences between browsers. I can attest to the
fact that a website may appear one way with Internet
Explorer and then another way or not at all using a
different browser. Get this book for an overview of
DHTML.
HTML for the World Wide Web
by Elizabeth Castro
Of all the books so far, this
is the one which helped me the most. It is a great
introduction to HTML. The advertisement you see here is
for a more recent version of the book I have. Now it seems
HTML is a part of XML and is to be called XHTML. The
original book was good so I'm betting this new edition is
better.
The Non-Designer's Design Book
by Robin Williams
OK, so this book doesn't have
any HTML or scripting advice, but it has helped me immensely
in the layout for my website. I have not mastered all of the
concepts in this book, but I have gotten a few things right
that I might not have if I never read this book and a little
bit goes a long way toward a better website. If you are a
novice webmaster or want to make a newsletter or e-zine you
should own this book.
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