STC Washington DC Chapter Reference Books Part 3

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What Are Some Good Reference Books? part 3

• Current Best Sellers
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• Accessibility, Usability, & Web Development
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Accessibility, Usability, & Web Development

Q. "What is a good resource for learning about Internet Technology?"

A. There are several excellent reference books about creating and maintaining Web pages and learning about the Internet. The following books are good additions to your library. The Amazon.com Associates program also provides a list of current best sellers.

Accessibility & Usability • Marketing on the Web • Tools for Web Sites
Web Site Development

Accessibility & Usability

	The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition by Frederick P. Brook, Project Manager for the IBM 360 Operating System. A classic, originally published in 1975. Additional essays added for the 20th edition in 1987. The software and hardware may be outdated, but the concepts and insights are not—a must read for managers of any type of project.
	Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers by Sarah Horton
	Web Accessibility for People With Disabilities by Michael G. Paciello, Mike Paciello
	Assistive Technology: Essential Human Factors by Thomas W. King
	Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All by Barbara T. Mates, et al.
	Designing Easy-to-use Web Sites by Vanessa Donnelly
	Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen
	Human Factors for Technical Communicators by Marlana Coe
	Maximum Accessibility by John M. Slatin and Sharron Rush
	A Practical Guide to Usability Testing by Joseph S. Dumas, Janice C. Redish
	User and Task Analysis for Interface Design by Joann T. Hackos, Janice C. Redish
	Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielsen
	Web Navigation: Designing the User Experience by Jennifer Fleming, Richard Koman (Editor)

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Marketing on the Web

	Advertising on the Internet, 2nd Edition, by Robbin Zeff and Brad Aronson
	Creating Stores on the Web, Second Edition by Ben Sawyer, Dave Greely, and Joe Cataudella
	The Nonprofit Guide to the Internet, 2nd Edition, by Robbin Zeff
	Publicity on the Internet by Steve O'Keefe
	Managing Mailing Lists by Alan Schwartz, Paula Ferguson (Editor)

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Tools for Web Sites

	Easy Adobe Photoshop 6 by Kate Binder
	Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: The Complete Reference by Ray West, Tom Muck, Tom Allen
	Flash 5.0: Graphics, Animation & Interactivity by James L. Mohler

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Web Site Development

	Creating Web Pages with HTML Simplified Second Edition, by Ruth Maran
	Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville
	Designing Web Graphics.3 by Lynda Weinman
	Learning Web Design, Second Edition, by Jennifer Niederst
	Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works, by Janice (Ginny) Redish
	Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Windows and Macintosh by J. Tarin Towers
	Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 21 Days, Second Edition (Teach Yourself — Days) by Laura Lemay, Denise Tyler
	The Non-Designer's Design Book, Second Edition, by Robin Williams
	The Non-Designer's Web Book, Third Edition, by Robin Williams, John Tollett (Contributor)
	Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites by Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton
	Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, Second Edition, by Jennifer Niederst
	Webmaster in a Nutshell (2nd Edition) by Stephen Spainhour, Robert Eckstein
	Web Style Guide, Second Edition by Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton

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For information about making a charitable donation to our student scholarship fund, see Corporate sponsorship and sustaining organizations.

Researching STC Publications

For STC Members Only: Use the following to search STC periodicals:

Search Intercom page to search back issues of Intercom (1996 to Present; Abstracts/Full Article).
Proceedings Search Form for conference proceedings (1993 to Present; Full Article)
STC member's publications
To search the Technical Communication database, see http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/stc/tc.

Accessibility & Usability • Marketing on the Web • Tools for Web Sites
Web Site Development

• Current Best Sellers
• Graphics and Printing
• Writing and Editing
• Communication Careers
• Accessibility, Usability, & Web Development
• Computer Programming and Security

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