Rapid Application Development with Mozilla, part of the Bruce Perens Open Source Series, is a concise guide for any programmer who wants to learn the versatility and compatibility of Mozilla, an open source toolset with over a thousand objects and components. …
Dave’s Web Site Design Tips
This is a collection of tips for designing a good web site. It is presented as an online book. I like to think of website design as like painting on a canvas. You’re given a blank page, and you can use your imagination to fill it with whatever you want. …
World Wide Web – Beyond the Basics
World Wide Web – Beyond the Basics is a free online book about World Wide Web. The evolution of the World Wide Web has reached a stage where it is very easy for a user or an application developer to get lost in the day to day developments, rather than concentrating on the more fundamental issues. …
OWASP Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and Web Services
The original OWASP Guide had become a staple diet for many web security professionals. Since 2002, the initial version was downloaded over 2 million times. Today, the Guide is referenced by many leading government, financial, and corporate standards and is the Gold standard for web application security. …
Building Accessible Websites
This book teaches developers of every sophistication and budget level how to improve the accessibility of their Websites so that people who are blind, deaf, or mobility-impaired can get the most out of them. Far from being a dry textbook of how-to information, Building Accessible Websites is written by a seasoned writer with a strong authorial voice over 20 years’ accessibility knowledge. …
Web Style Guide, 2nd edition
Free online book Web Style Guide covers all the basic elements of creating a Web site. The book begins the presentation of its helpful and forward-looking advice with a discussion of the overall process of defining the objectives and users of your Web site, as well as the goals you will use to measure your progress. …
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
Free online book “The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web”. Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style is on many a designer’s bookshelf and is considered to be a classic in the field. Indeed the renowned typographer Hermann Zapf proclaims the book to be “a must for everybody in the graphic arts, and especially for our new friends entering the field.” …
Type Classification
Free eBook: “Type Classification” by Jacob Cass. This book has been made to help you learn the 10 broad classifications of type. These are the basic foundations of what you need to learn to learn typography and it is essential for any designer to know how to classify type. …