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Book Recommendations
3 February 2015

Books that taught me the concepts and skills that I needed to build my website

When I had that spark of motivation to build a website for myself, I do not know how to get started.

At that point of time, I found myself lacking in the following skills to:

  • design my website
  • create codes for the browser to render the front end look and feel
  • create codes for the web server to respond to HTTP requests from the browser
  • write some decent content for my website

This post lists the books that help me understood the concepts that I needed and acquired the skills that I needed to fulfill my motivation of building my website.

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter), Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, Creating Content for the Digital World, Editing, learning resources, PHP, PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, Plug-In PHP: 100 Power Solutions: Simple Solutions to Practical PHP Problems, ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, Sexy Web Design: Creating Interfaces that Work, The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Tricks & Hacks, website design, website programming

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