This book took me much longer to review than any book I have reviewed before simply because it took me several times as long to read as any of the others. This wasn’t because the book was harder to read, it was because the book captured my interest so much that I kept stopping and [...]

As I reviewed this book I was rather disappointed in how many errors there were with the HTML and JavaScript. It wasn’t until I compared my review of this third edition with what I had written a few years ago about the second edition that I realised just how much the book has actually improved. [...]

This pocket sized reference covers a whole three versions of HTML. There are the old obsolete HTML 3.2 codes (as permitted under the HTML 4 transitional doctype), the current standard HTML 4 (strict) codes, and the preliminary draft HTML 5 codes. They are all labelled as to which version they apply to but are unfortunately [...]

Most books on web design assume that you have no knowledge of creating web pages apart perhaps from knowing some HTML. This book takes a different approach and assumes that the person is already a web developer. It then builds on what they already know about how server side processing interacts with the web page [...]

This book takes a very different approach to all the other books on programming that I have seen. Definitely worth a look for anyone with no prior programming experience whatsoever who is thinking about writing their own programs. Find out more about what I think of “Head First Programming”.

The biggest problem with a Content Management System such as Joomla is figuring out how to use it in the first place. This book not only tells you what all the options are for (and which ones you probably will not need to touch), it also tells you how to use the options to preform [...]

I thought it rather interesting that two books on such very different topics should land on my desk to be reviewed one after the other, particularly in view of how so many people get the two topics confused. This excellent book on debugging only mentions testing in passing since testing is a part of the [...]

Most people don’t even know what testing is let alone how the term beautiful could be applied to it. Well the professional testers responsible for writing the essays in this book are all familiar with just what testing is and each has something interesting to say about the process. While I personally found that I [...]

It was rather interesting to review this CSS book at just about the same time as reviewing the CSS Anthology. These are two very different books taking very different approaches to almost the same subject. For beginners to CSS this is by far the better choice since the book doesn’t assume a prior knowledge of [...]

This SitePoint book is filled with practical solutions to real world CSS issues. The book isn’t for beginners though as the review section at the start is far too short for someone to use it to learn basic CCS. The section does work though to remind those who may not have touched CSS for a [...]

What use is a web site if no one knows that it is there? For people to find your site you need to market it. There are two areas of marketing – offline marketing (not on the internet) and online marketing (on the internet). This particular book deals with the latter and clearly shows that [...]

Yet another book on web design except this one is from O’Reilly and has a specific focus – web interfaces. What can be done in this area has changed significantly in recent years and this book includes discussions of a variety of different interfaces that you may or may not have considered. Read my review [...]