Useful Books
Owning a web site covers a wide variety of different topics that it is impossible to know everything there is linked to the topic. This is why I've put together a list of potentially useful books and sorted them into topics.
Site Planning & Design
- Web Design on a Shoestring
- Designing With Web Standards
- Learning Web Design : A Beginner's Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond
- The Non-Designer's Web Book (2nd Edition)
- Web Design: A Beginner's Guide
- Web Design: The Complete Reference
- Robin Williams Web Design Workshop
- Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, Second Edition
- Web ReDesign : Workflow that Works
- Content Management Bible
- Content Management Systems (Tools of the Trade)
- Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery
- Developing Effective Websites: A Project Manager's Guide
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
- Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches
- Web Content Management: A Collaborative Approach
- Web Project Management: Delivering Successful Commercial Web Sites
- Building Accessible Websites (With CD-ROM)
- Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity
- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
- Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
- Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability
- Shaping Web Usability: Interaction Design in Context
- Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization
- Web Usability and Navigation: A Beginner's Guide
- Customer-Centered Design: A New Approach to Web Usability
- The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Custom...
- How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market
- Designing Websites for Every Audience
- The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
Web Site Development
- The Elements of Copywriting: The Essential Guide to Creating Copy That Gets th...
- Hot Text: Web Writing that Works
- Net Words: Creating High-Impact Online Copy
- Secrets of a Freelance Writer: How to Make 85,000 a Year
- Teach Yourself Copywriting
- Web Word Wizardry A Net-Savvy Writing Guide
- The Web Writer's Guide
- Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
- Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference
- Cascading Style Sheets: A Beginner's Guide
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example
- Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (2nd Edition)
- DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition)
- Designing CSS Web Pages
- Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design
- Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation
- HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition
- HTML: A Beginner's Guide
- HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth...
- Web Design in a Nutshell
- XML: A Beginner's Guide
- XML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide
- XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
- Beginning JavaScript
- Document Object Model : Processing Structured Documents
- Dynamic Html in Action
- Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference (2nd Edition)
- JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide
- JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook
- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
- JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (4th Edition)
Site Promotion & Analysis
- 101 Ways to Boost Your Web Traffic: Internet Promotion Made Easier, 2nd Edition
- 101 Ways to Promote Your Web Site: Filled With Proven Internet Marketing Tips,...
- Cheap Web Tricks! Build and Promote a Successful Web Site Without Spending a D...
- The Elements of
Promotion - Streetwise Maximize Web Site Traffic: Build Web Site Traffic Fast and Free by ...
- Self Promotion Online: Marketing Your Creative Services Using Web Sites, E-Mai...
- Increase Your Web Traffic in a Weekend (In a Weekend)
- The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines
- Find it Online: The Complete Guide to Online Research, Third Edition
- Google For Dummies
- Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools
- Search Engines for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (3rd Edition)
- Internet Marketing And Search Engine Positioning - A "Do It Yourself" Guide
- Search Engine Visibility
- Search Engine Optimization on an Extreme Budget
- Creating Customer Evangelists: How Loyal Customers Become a Volunteer Sales Fo...
- Effective E-Mail Marketing: The Complete Guide to Creating Successful Campaigns
- Email Marketing: Using Email to Reach Your Target Audience and Build Customer ...
- Internet Direct Mail : The Complete Guide to Successful E-Mail Marketing Campa...
- Million Dollar E-mails: The guide to creating effective, persuasive Internet e...
- Permission-Based E-Mail Marketing That Works!
- Planning Your Internet Marketing Strategy: A Doctor Ebiz Guide
- Unleashing the Ideavirus
- The Secrets of Word-of-Mouth Marketing: How to Trigger Exponential Sales Throu...
- World Wide Web Marketing: Integrating the Web into Your Marketing Strategy, 3r...
- Web Site Analysis and Reporting
- Measuring the Success of Your Website: A Customer-centric Approach to Website ...
- Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research (Morgan...
- Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success
Sever Setup & Admin
- Apache Administrator's Handbook
- Apache: The Definitive Guide (3rd Edition)
- Apache Jakarta-Tomcat
- Apache Jakarta-Tomcat
- Apache Server Unleashed
- Professional Apache 2.0
- Professional Apache Tomcat
- Sams Teach Yourself Apache 2 in 24 Hours
- Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C
- Administering IIS (5)
- Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 Documentation
- Running Microsoft Internet Information Server
- Windows 2000 Active Directory
- Windows 2000 IIS 5.0: A Beginner's Guide
- Microsoft Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
- Windows 2000 Performance Guide
- Windows: System Policy Editor
- DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition
- Essential System Administration, Third Edition
- HTTP Essentials: Protocols for Secure, Scaleable Web Sites
- HTTP: The Definitive Guide
- Network Troubleshooting Tools (O'Reilly System Administration)
- TCP/IP Network Administration (3rd Edition; O'Reilly Networking)
- UNIX System Administration Handbook (3rd Edition)
- Web Protocols and Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traff...
- Content Delivery Networks: Web Switching for Security, Availability, and Speed
- Load Balancing Servers, Firewalls, * Caches
- Server Load Balancing
- System Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly System Administration)
- Web Caching (O'Reilly Internet Series)
- Web Caching and Replication
- Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly Internet)
- Web Proxy Servers
Server Backup & Security
- Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way
- Professional Apache Security
- Windows .Net Server Security Handbook (With CD-ROM)
- Web Security, Privacy and Commerce, 2nd Edition
- Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems
- SQL Server Security Distilled
- SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide
- SSL and TLS: Designing and Building Secure Systems
- Windows 2000 Security Handbook
- Writing Secure Code (With CD-ROM)
- Active Defense: A Comprehensive Guide to Network Security
- Counter Hack: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses
- Hackers Beware: The Ultimate Guide to Network Security
- Building Internet Firewalls (2nd Edition)
- Intrusion Signatures and Analysis
- Network Intrusion Detection (3rd Edition)
- Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, Virtual ...
- Honeypots: Tracking Hackers
- Anti-Hacker Tool Kit
- The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
- Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense
- Hacker's Challenge 2: Test Your Network Security & Forensic Skills
- Hacking Exposed (TM) Web Applications
- Hacking Linux Exposed
- Hacking Exposed Windows 2000
- Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Bla...
- Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Third Edition
- Capacity Planning for Web Performance: Metrics, Models, and Methods
- Scaling for E-Business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning
- SQL Server Backup and Recovery: Tools and Techniques
- UNIX Backup and Recovery
Web Databases
- Absolute Beginner's Guide to Databases
- Access Database Design & Programming (3rd Edition)
- Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Desi...
- Database Development For Dummies
- Database Modeling & Design
- The Essence of Databases
- Inside Relational Databases
- Relational Database Design Clearly Explained
- Mastering MySQL 4
- MySQL, Second Edition
- MySQL Bible with CDROM
- MySQL Cookbook
- The Definitive Guide to MySQL, Second Edition
- MySQL Reference Manual
- Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 24 Hours
- SQL for Dummies
- SQL in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
- SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL
- SQL: The Complete Reference, Second Edition
- Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (2nd Edition)
- The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language (3rd Edition)
- The Practical SQL Handbook: Using SQL Variants (4th Edition)
- Oracle 24x7 Tips and Techniques
- Expert One on One Oracle
- Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)
- Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases
- Oracle Performance Tuning 101
- High-Performance Oracle: Proven Methods for Achieving Optimum Performance and ...
Windows Technologies
- Instant ASP Scripts
- Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days
- Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0
- ASP: Learning by Example
- ASP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
- Designing Active Server Pages
- Professional Active Server Pages 3.0
- ASP 3.0 Programmer's Reference
- Developing ASP Components (2nd Edition)
- ADO 2.6 Programmer's Reference
- Learning VBScript
- Vbscript in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
- Vbscript Programmer's Reference
- Professional ASP.NET 1.0 (2002 Edition)
- ASP.NET and VB.NET Web Programming
- ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution C# Edition
- Professional ASP.NET Server Controls: Building Custom Controls with C#
- Professional ASP.NET Web Services
- Professional C# Web Services: Building .NET Web Services with ASP.NET and .NET...
- Professional ADO.NET
- Professional C# (2nd Edition)
General Design
Site Management
Web Usability
Customer Focus
Writing Content
Style Sheets
HTML/XHTML & XML
JavaScript & DHTML
Web Site Promotion
Search Engines
Internet Marketing
Web Site Analysis
Apache Setup
Windows & IIS
System Admin.
System Performance
General Security
Intrusion Detection
Hacking Methods
Backup & Recovery
Database Design
MySQL
SQL
Oracle
Active Server Pages
VBScript
.NET Technologies