Safari Books

• Learning PHP, MySQL & Javascript, 4th edition: Up-to-date useful information about all of the listed technologies and how they work together. This is particularly clear about how to get PHP to use MySQL correctly.
• CSS: The Missing Manual, 4th edition: Explains CSS from the beginning with useful examples of how to achieve particular effects.
• Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, 2nd edition: Responsive in this case means working nicely with a broad range of web access devices (mobile devices, different browsers, large screens) without developing a completely separate mobile interface.
• Information Architecture, 4th edition: This book introduces the big ideas of information architecture which involves deciding how to organize and present information in a way that makes it most useful to your audience. This has way more depth on the topic than we will discuss in class.
• Building Web Apps with WordPress: This book explores a topic that we spend no time on (directly) in class at all, but it might be useful for folks who want to build things using WordPress, which Truman encourages in some contexts.