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Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has updated his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. This new edition--now in full color--covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers since the first edition introduced the world to standards-based design. Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest,... (more)

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale and maintainable web sites that are appealing and easy to... (more)

Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists

Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists

by Shirley Kaiser

Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists is the only organized and easy-to-use compilation of guidelines, checklists and tips for building modern, best-practice Websites. Drawing on dozens of books, studies, and research papers, this book distills not-so-common wisdom into 500 digestible guidelines & checkpoints that can be quickly applied to any Web Development project. Organized by... (more)

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran

Want to tap the power behind search rankings, product recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the Internet. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, you can write smart programs to access interesting datasets from other web sites, collect data from users of... (more)

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers

by Steve Souders

Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Page, were able to... (more)

The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources

Theory in Practice

The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources

by John Allspaw

Success on the web is measured by usage and growth. Web-based companies live or die by the ability to scale their infrastructure to accommodate increasing demand. This book is a hands-on and practical guide to planning for such growth, with many techniques and considerations to help you plan, deploy, and manage web application infrastructure. The Art of Capacity Planning is written by the manager of data... (more)

Web Standards Solutions

The Markup and Style Handbook

by Dan Cederholm

Web standards are the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers are using the same technology syntax. It is important that these implementations are the same throughout the Web, otherwise it becomes a messy proprietary place, and lacks consistency. These standards also allow content to be more compatible with... (more)

Ambient Findability

by Peter Morville

How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. Written by... (more)

Web Standards Programmer's Reference : HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and PHP

Web Standards Programmer's Reference : HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and PHP

by Steven M. Schafer

This invaluable resource offers tutorials and real-world examples as well as thorough language references for Web markup languages (HTML/XHTML and CSS), and popular scripting languages (JavaScript, Perl, and PHP) Examines the role of JavaScript, CGI (with examples in Perl and Python), and PHP on the Web and shows how to best use them all Includes a valuable reference section on each technology that can... (more)

Web Standards Creativity

Innovations in Web Design with CSS, DOM Scripting, and XHTML

by Andy Budd, Andy Clarke, Ian Lloyd, Cameron Adams, Rob Weychert, Derek Featherstone, Ethan Marcotte, Simon Collison, Jeff Croft, Mark Boulton

Be inspired by 10 web design lessons from 10 of the worlds best web designers Get creative with cutting-edge XHTML, CSS, and DOM scripting techniques Learn breathtaking design skills while remaining standards-compliant Here at friends of ED, we know that as a web designer or developer, your work involves more than just working to pay the bills. We know that each day, you strive to push the... (more)

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Designing with Web Standards

by Jeffrey Zeldman