To learn more about the books below or purchase them on Amazon.com, click the links below. If your browser supports JavaScript, hover your cursor over the title and you will see an image of the book and more information about it. I have also included links to many authors' and publishers' sites.
You can also see these same books in my LinkedIn reading list.
Note that these categories are simply in alphabetical order. I intentionally did not attempt to categorize by skill grouping, such as front or back end web development.
Active Server Pages (ASP) Classic and ASP.NET
- Active Server Pages 2.0 for Dummies
by Bill Hatfield. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
- Debugging ASP: Troubleshooting for Programmers
by Derek Ferguson.
- Designing Active Server Pages
by Scott Mitchell. See the publisher's site at oreilly.com.
- Understanding the .NET Framework
by Tony Baer.
Adobe Creative Suite
- Adobe Creative Suite 2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
by Jennifer Smith and Christopher Smith. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
- Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 4
by Mike Wooldridge and Linda Wooldridge. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
AJAX
- Bulletproof Ajax
by Jeremy Keith. See the publisher's site at oreilly.com and the book's companion site at bulletproofajax.com.
Business Intelligence and Statistics
- SAS For Dummies
by Stephen McDaniel and Chris Hemedinger. See the publisher's site at oreilly.com and the book's companion site at bulletproofajax.com.
- Statistics Demystified
by Stan Gibilisco. See the publisher's site at mhprofessional.com.
- The Rational Guide to: SQL Server Reporting Services
by A. T. Mann.
Content Management
- Content Management Bible
by Bob Boiko. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com and the author's site at metatorial.com.
- Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies
by Vanessa L. Williams. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
- WordPress For Dummies
by Lisa Sabin-Wilson. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com and the author's site at justagirlintheworld.com.
Competitive Intelligence
- Online Competitive Intelligence, 2nd Edition: Increase Your Profits Using Cyber-Intelligence
by Helen P. Burwell.
CRM
- Salesforce.com For Dummies
by Tom Wong and Liz Kao. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
CSS
- Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design
by Eric Meyer. See the publisher's site at Peachpit Press and the author's sites at ericmeyeroncss.com and meyerweb.com.
- More Eric Meyer on CSS
by Eric Meyer. See the publisher's site at Peachpit Press and the author's sites at more.ericmeyeroncss.com and meyerweb.com.
Customer Service
- Perfect Phrases for Customer Service: Hundreds of Tools, Techniques, and Scripts for Handling Any Situation
by Robert Bacal and the book's companion site at customerservicezone.com
Databases
- Databases Demystified
by Andrew Oppel. See the publisher's site at mhprofessional.com.
- From Access to SQL Server
by Russell Sinclair. See the publisher's site at apress.com.
- Microsoft Access 97 At a Glance
by Perspection Inc. See the author's other Microsoft Office books at perspection.com.
- Microsoft Access 97 Bible
by Cary N. Prague and Michael R. Irwin. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
- Microsoft Access 97 (Step By Step)
by Catapult. See the publisher's site at microsoft.com/MSPress.
- MySQL Bible
by Steve Suehring. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
- Running Microsoft Access 97
by John Viescas
- SQL For Dummies
by Allen G. Taylor. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
- Teach Yourself Access 97 VISUALLY
by Ruth Maran.
- Troubleshooting Microsoft Access 2002
by Virginia Andersen. See the publisher's site at microsoft.com/MSPress.
Email Marketing
- Marketing With Email : A Spam-Free Guide to Increasing Awareness, Building Loyalty, and Increasing Sales by Using the Internet's Most Powerful Tool
by Shannon Kinnard.
- The Engaged Customer: Using the New Rules of Internet Direct Marketing to Create Profitable Customer Relationships
by Hans Peter Brondmo. See the publisher's site at harpercollins.com and the author's profile on LinkedIn.com.
- Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
by Seth Godin. See the book's companion site at sethgodin.com/permission.
Flash
- Creating a Web Site with Flash: Visual QuickProject Guide
by David Morris. See the publisher's site at peachpit.com.
- Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics
by Brian Clifton. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com and the book's companion site at Advanced-Web-Metrics.com.
- AdWords For Dummies
by Howie Jacobson. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com and the author's site at askhowie.com.
- Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer
by Bryan Eisenberg. See the book's companion website at testingtoolbox.com and a promotional video at youtube.com.
- Google Analytics 2.0
by Mary E Tyler and Jerri Ledford. See the book's companion site at google-analytics-book.com.
- Winning Results with Google AdWords
by Andrew Goodman. See the publisher's site at mhprofessional.com and the author's site at page-zero.com.
HTML and XHTML
- Creating a Web Page with HTML: Visual QuickProject Guide
by Elizabeth Castro. See the publisher's site at oreilly.com and the author's site at cookwood.com.
- HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (6th Edition)
by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy. See the publisher's site at oreilly.com.
- HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible
by Steven M. Schafer. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
- Usable Forms for the Web
by Jon James, Andy Beaumont, Jon Stephens, and Chris Ullman.
IDE's
- Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver: Visual QuickProject Guide
by Nolan Hester. See the publisher's site at peachpit.com.
- Microsoft Expression Web Step by Step
by Chris Leeds. See the book's companion site at expressionwebstepbystep.com and the author's site at contentseed.com.
- Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Bible
by David Elderbrock and David Karlins. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
- Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition: Build a Web Site Now!
by Jim Buyens. See the publisher's site at Microsoft.com and the book's companion site with code samples and bonus chapters.
Java
- Java For Dummies
by Barry Burd. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
- Java XML and Web Services Bible
by Mike Jasnowski. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
JavaScript
- Designing with JavaScript, 2nd Edition
by Nick Heinle and Bill Pena. See the publisher's site at oreilly.com.
- JavaScript Bible
by Danny Goodman. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com and the author's site at dannyg.com.
Marketing
- One-To-One Web Marketing: Build a Relationship Marketing Strategy One Customer at a Time
by Cliff Allen. See the author's site at allen.com
- Predatory Marketing
by C. Britt Beemer and Robert L. Shook. See the author's site at americasresearchgroup.com.
- The Successful Marketing Plan : A Disciplined and Comprehensive Approach
by Roman G. Hiebing and Scott W. Cooper. See the publisher's site at mcgraw-hill.com or preview the book online at books.google.com.
Microsoft Office
- The Microsoft Certified Application Specialist Study Guide
by Joan Preppernau. See the publisher's site at Microsoft.com and the Microsoft Office Specialist and Microsoft Certified Application Specialist pages.
- Using Microsoft Office 97
by Kathy Ivens. See the Microsoft Office page for more.
Microsoft Excel
- Excel 97 Bible
by John Walkenbach. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
- Microsoft EXCEL 97
/ Visual Basic Step-by-Step
by Reed Jacobson. See the publisher's site at Microsoft.com.
- Microsoft Excel 97 Worksheet Function Reference
by Microsoft Corporation. See a list of worksheet functions (by category) at Microsoft.com.
Microsoft Outlook
- Running Microsoft Outlook 97
by Russell Borland.
Microsoft PowerPoint
- PowerPoint 2000: I Didn't Know You Could Do That...
by Michael Miller.
Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Office Project 2003 Step by Step
by Carl Chatfield.
Microsoft Visio
- Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Step by Step
by Resources Online.
Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office Word 2007 Step by Step
by Joyce Cox.
Networking
- How Networks Work
by Frank J. Derfler. See the publisher's site at InformIT.com.
Operating Systems
- DOS for Dummies
by Dan Gookin. See the publisher's site at Dummies.com.
- Running Microsoft Windows 95: In-Depth Reference and Inside Tips from the Software Experts
by Craig Stinson.
- Teach Yourself Visually Mac OS X v. 10.3 Panther
by Erick Tejkowski. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
- Teach Yourself Red Hat Linux Visually (Version 6.1)
by Ruth Maran.
- Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows Home Server
by Paul McFedries. See the author's sites at mcfedries.com and WordSpy.com.
- Windows Vista Inside Out
by Ed Bott. See the author's site at edbott.com.
- Windows XP Bible
by Alan Simpson and Brian Underdahl. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
Other
- The Internet For Dummies
by John R. Levine. See the publisher's site at Dummies.com and the author's site at net.gurus.org
- The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business
by Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck.
Perl
- Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web, Second Edition
by Elizabeth Castro. See the publisher's site at Peachpit Press and the author's site at elizabethcastro.com.
PHP
- PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy
by David Powers. See the publisher's site at friendsofed.com and the book's "Japan Journey" project site.
Product Management
- The Product Managers Handbook
by Linda Gorchels. See the publisher's site at mhprofessional.com or preview the book online at books.google.com.
RSS
- Secrets of RSS
by Steven Holzner. See the publisher's site at safari.informit.com.
SAP
- Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours
by George W. Anderson.
Search Engine Marketing
- How to Win Sales & Influence Spiders: Boosting Your Business & Buzz on the Web
by Catherine Seda. See the publisher's site at peachpit.com and the author's site at sedacommunication.com.
- SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible
by Jerri L. Ledford. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com and the author's site at jerriledford.com.
- Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day
by Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com and the book's companion site at yourseoplan.com.
Security
- How Personal & Internet Security Works
by Preston Gralla.
Social Networking
- MySpace For Dummies
by Ryan Hupfer. See the publisher's site at Dummies.com.
- YouTube For Dummies
by Doug Sahlin and Chris Botello. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com.
Time Management
- How to Make the Most of Your Workday
by Peg Pickering and Jonathan Clark. See the author's site at businesswritingsolutions.com.
- The Time Trap: The Classic Book on Time Management
by R. Alex MacKenzie.
- Time Management from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Schedule--and Your Life
by Julie Morgenstern. See the author's site at juliemorgenstern.com/.
Web Analytics
- Web Analytics: An Hour a Day
by Avinash Kaushik. See the book's companion site at webanalyticshour.com and the author's site at kaushik.net.
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Web Analytics Demystified
by Eric T. Peterson. See the author's site at webanalyticsdemystified.com.
- Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success
by Jim Sterne. See the publisher's site at Wiley.com and the author's site at targeting.com.
- Web Site Measurement Hacks
by Eric T. Peterson. See the publisher's site at oreilly.com and the author's site at webanalyticsdemystified.com
Web Design and Usability
- Designing Web Usability
by Jakob Nielsen. See the publisher's site at Peachpit Press and the author's site at Useit.com.
- Web Design: Start Here!
by Nick Nettleton.
Wireless
- How Wireless Works
by Preston Gralla. See the publisher's site at informIT.com.
XML
- XML for the World Wide Web
by Elizabeth Castro. See the book's companion sites at elizabethcastro.com and cookwood.com.