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Getting Started

The Non-Designer's Web Book : An Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site - This book is for anyone who has little or no background in design or the World Wide Web, but who still wants to participate in this communication explosion. If you are an aspiring Web designer, you'll learn why Web design is different from print design and how to take advantage of it, where to get or how to make Web graphics easily, how to use typography on the Web, how to get your finished Web site up on the World Wide Web, and much, much more.

Web Design

Web Design in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference - Written in the popular "Nutshell" format, this guide is full of helpful tables and lists, making it a perfect desktop reference. The book breaks down the huge topic of Web site development into understandable, readable segments: the Web environment (browsers, displays, design principles), an in-depth guide to HTML tags, graphics manipulation and display, multimedia possibilities, and technologies for larger site management (such as Cascading Style Sheets [CSS] and XML).

HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide - A guide to creating Web pages using HTML. The author provides step-by-step instruction from the basic building blocks of HTML to more advanced topics such as page layout and creating links. Illustrations of what one should see on the computer monitor are included throughout.

Web Programming

Perl and Cgi for the World Wide Web : Visual Quickstart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guide Series) - This guide empowers new Web developers with the skills they need to build user interactivity into their Web sites, explaining all the basic components of Perl--scalars, arrays, hashes, basic operators, and functions.

The Cgi/Perl Cookbook - This book is destined to be one of those classic programming texts that everyone must have on their shelves, because instead of being dry theory it's a rare combination of readable prose and useful, interesting code.

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