Here are 10 free Web Design and Development books covering the following: CSS, Design Do's and Don'ts, Accessibility, Java Web Dev, PHP, RSS and Atom, and Web Site Secrets of the largest sites. To access the download link for these computer books, click on the Free button at the bottom of the page, wait about 30 seconds, then the link to download will appear at bottom of page, which you should click on. (You will need to wait 1 hour between large downloads.). To uncompress .rar files you can use 7-Zip, available here: http://www.7-zip.com/download.html.


Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web:
http://tinyurl.com/7wqxd

Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide:
http://rapidshare.de/files/3652244/Stylin__with_CSS_-A_Designer_s_Guide.rar.html

Web Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them:
http://tinyurl.com/b2u3x

GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers:
http://tinyurl.com/a6o6w

Constructing Accessible Websites:
http://rapidshare.de/files/3188177/Constructing_Accessible_Websites.rar.html

Art of Java Web Development:
http://rapidshare.de/files/3438770/Art_of_Java_Web_Development_.rar.html

Spring Into PHP 5:
http://tinyurl.com/ckw4a

PHP 5 Power Programming:
http://tinyurl.com/ba6qp

Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom:
http://rapidshare.de/files/3459995/b-dfra01.zip.html

501 Web Site Secrets: Unleash the Power of Google, Amazon, eBay and More!:
http://rapidshare.de/files/2987606/501_Website_Secrets.rar.html

Free Course on Creating Web Pages with HTML, XML, and Dynamic HTML

This course contains 10 interactive HTML tutorials, 4 interactive XML tutorials, and 5 interactive DHTML tutorials.

The site for this course contains the following sections:

 

The Documents Folder

The Documents folder contain additional topics of special interest that were not covered in the main text of the book. These topics are:

HTML

Tutorial 1: Developing a Basic Web Page
Creating a Web Page for Stephen Dube's Chemistry Classes

• The W3 Consortium and Other Sites
• Variations on Bulleted Lists
• Variations on Horizontal Lines
• Extended Character Sets

Tutorial 2: Adding Hypertext Links to a Web Page
Creating a Chemistry Web Site, Continued

• Using FTP
• Using USENET
• Accessing Gophers
• File Names and Case

Tutorial 3: Designing a Web Page
Working with Fonts, Colors, and Graphics

• Graphics Packages
• Dithering and the Safety Palette
• Image Maps
• Using Transparent GIFs
• Another Use of the <alt> Attribute

Tutorial 4: Designing a Web Page with Tables
Creating a News Page

• Binding a Table to a Data Source

Tutorial 5: Using Frames in a Web Site
Using Frames to Display Multiple Web Pages

• Using the <base> Element
• The <iframe> Element

Tutorial 6: Creating Web Page Forms
Designing a Product Registration Form

• Form Editors
• Learning about CGI

Tutorial 7: Working with Cascading Style Sheets
Designing a Style for a Web Site at Maxwell Scientific

• Web Fonts
• Netscape's Background Blues
• The Resizing Bug
• Controlling Printing with CSS2

Tutorial 8: Programming with JavaScript
Creating a Programmable Web Page for North Pole Novelties

• JavaScript Resources on the Web
• Interrupting Loops

Tutorial 9: Working with JavaScript Objects and Events
Enhancing your Forms with JavaScript

• Creating a Web Clock
• Opening Windows
• Working with the Status Bar
• Displaying the Date Last Modified
• Creating an Object
• Checking String Length
• Object Classes and Instances

Tutorial 10: Creating a Multimedia Web Page
Enhancing a Page with Sound, Video, and Java Applets

• Using MIDI Files
• VRML

XML

Tutorial 1: Creating an XML Document
Developing an XML Document for the Jazz Warehouse

• Cascading Style Sheets
• White Space and how it is treated in XML

Tutorial 2: Binding XML Data with Internet Explorer
Creating a Staff Directory for Freezing Point Refrigerators

• Accessing non XML documents for data binding with Internet Explorer

Tutorial 3: Creating a Valid XML Document
Working with a Document Type Definition

• How to use XML Spy to generate a DTD file from a XML document

Tutorial 4: Working with Namespaces and Schemas
Creating a Patient Report Document

• How to use XML Spy to generate schema from an XML document
• Manuscript schema language
• Importing content from one schema file into another

XML Tutorial 5: Working with Cascading Style Sheets
Formatting Your XML Documents with CSS

• Working with XML and CSS in XML Spy
• Netscape Support for XML and CSS
• Using Inline Styles with XML
• Style Sheet Media
• Alternate Style Sheets

Tutorial 6: Working with XSLT
Transforming an XML Document

• Using Other XSLT Processors
• Using Netscape with XSLT

Tutorial 7: Creating a Computational Style Sheet
Working with Functions, Variables, and Parameters

• A Global Search and Replace Template
• Extending Sort Data Types

Tutorial 8: Creating Element Groups
Working with IDs, Keys, and Groups

• Creating a Multi-value Key
• Applying Multiple Definitions to the Same Key

Tutorial 9: Working with the Document Object Model
Creating an Interactive Document

• Creating a Document Object in Netscape
• Loading an XML String into a Document Object in Netscape

DHTML

Tutorial 1: Working with Dynamic Page Layout
Creating an Opening Screen for Avalon Books

• Moving an Object at a Specified Angle
• Moving an Object in a Circle
• Moving an Object in a Spiral
• Passing arguments to the setInterval() and setTimeout() Methods

Tutorial 2: Working with Dynamic Content and Styles
Creating a Product Information Site

• Creating a TextRange Object
• Properties of the TextRange Object
• Methods of the TextRange Object
• Searching for Text on the Web Page
• Formatting Text With a Mouse Click

Tutorial 3: Working with Special Effects
Creating Rollovers, Menus, Filters, and Transitions

• Creating Transition Effects in Netscape

Tutorial 4: Working with the Event Model
Creating a Drag-and-Drop Shopping Cart for Games Etc.

• Displaying Character Codes
• Hiding Form Elements
• Positioning with Internet Explorer Expressions

Tutorial 5: Working with Windows and Frames
Enhancing a Web Site with Interactive Windows

• Creating a Scrolling Status Bar
• Scrolling the Browser Window
• Passing Information to and from a Modal Window
• Showing Help Windows

The Reference Folder

The Reference folder is updated for Internet Explorer 6.0 and Netscape 6.2.

• Appendix D: HTML Tags and Attributes (PDF)
• Appendix E: Working with XHTML (PDF)

The Gallery Folder

The Gallery section contains graphics files, media clips and other objects that you can include in your own Web pages to enhance their appearance. The gallery includes the following objects:

• Java Applets: the CreditRoll and Fractal applets
• Background Images
• Graphical Bullets
• Clipart
• Graphical Horizontal Lines
• Photos
• Sound clips (WAV and AU versions)
• Video clips (AVI and QuickTime versions)

The Data Files Folder

Click the links below for the data files for the appropriate tutorials. See the readme files included within each “exe” (PC) or “hqx” (MAC) file for more information on how to setup your data disks.

HTML

PC Version:

• HTML Tutorials 1-9
• HTML Tutorial 10 & Additional Cases
  
  

MAC Version:

• HTML Tutorials 1-9
• HTML Tutorial 10 & Additional Cases
  
  

XML

PC Version:

• XML Tutorials 1-4
• XML Tutorials 5-9

DHTML

PC Version:

• DHTML Tutorials 1-5

MAC Version:

• DHTML Tutorials 1-5

The PowerPoint Presentations Folder

From this section you can download PowerPoint Presentations that correspond to each chapter in the New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML, XML, and Dynamic HTML textbooks.

PowerPoint Presentations


Summary:
Online Companion Home   Documents
HTML: Tutorial 1 | Tutorial 2 | Tutorial 3 | Tutorial 4 | Tutorial 5
Tutorial 6 | Tutorial 7 | Tutorial 8 | Tutorial 9 | Tutorial 10
XML: Tutorial 1 | Tutorial 2 | Tutorial 3 | Tutorial 4
Tutorial 5 | Tutorial 6 | Tutorial 7 | Tutorial 8 | Tutorial 9
DHTML: Tutorial 1 | Tutorial 2 | Tutorial 3 | Tutorial 4 | Tutorial 5
Reference  Gallery  Software  Data Files
PowerPoint Presentations

This course teaches basics of designing a dynamic web site with a database back end, including scripting languages, cookies, SQL, and HTML with the goal of building such a site as the main (group) project Emphasizes computer-human interface and the graphical display of information. Crucial to the project is the identification of a client with whom the group must work with throughout the month, designing specifications, implementing them, reviewing and evaluating, and testing. This is a real-life client who intends to host the site for the purposes of building a community. The available training and learning content includes Lecture Videos, Handouts, and Web Resource Links. The lecture videos are in Real Player format.

Software Engineering for Web Applications:
http://aduni.org/courses/web/

Here is the Lectures and Courseware page:
http://aduni.org/courses/web/index.php?view=cw

Lecture Videos:

A high-speed mirror is available at The Internet Archive here:
http://www.archive.org/details-db.php?mediatype=movies&identifier=arsdigita_07_web_applications

(Part I): Introduction to Internet Applications, Online Communities:
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-02-01Lect_Part_I.rm

(Part II): TCP and HTTP, Web Session State, Databases, Web Development Enviornments:
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-02-01Lect_Part_II.rm

J2EE and Microsoft .NET, Planning Internet Applications and Online Communities:
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-03-01Lect.rm

Big Thoughts about the Internet and Online Communities:
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-04-01Lect.rm

Web Usability and Interface Best Practices:
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-05-01Lect.rm

Student User Data Model and Login/Registration Code Review:
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-11-01Lect.rm

Sample Data Model for Diet Tracking, Database Structure, Site Modules:
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-12-01Lect.rm

Student Project Status Presentation and Code Reviews:
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-17-01Lect.rm

Implementing Threaded Discussion Forums:
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-18-01Lect.rm

Database Normal Form, Oracle Transaction Issues, Oracle Under the Hood:
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-19-01Lect.rm

VoiceXML::
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-24-01Lect.rm

Distributed Computing with Web Services, SOAP::
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-25-01Lect.rm

Final Student Project Presentation, Future of Databases:
http://www.aduni.org:81/videos/04-26-01Lect.rm

This site hosts several good web development books covering PHP, MySQL, ASP, Apache, SSL, and Access. It also has some books on Oracle PL SQL and Visual C++.

[B]Index of /~egunst00/Div/Lær PHP og SQL:
http://home.hia.no/~egunst00/Div/L%e6r%20PHP%20og%20SQL/

For a linked list of the free books, please go to my blog post on intelligentedu.com here:
http://www.intelligentedu.com/blogs/Free_Computer_Books.php/?id=147

Web site publishing can be broken down into two approaches: 1) those that focus on the underlying code-level technologies, and 2) those that teach the broad strokes of Web publishing via graphical Web editors. This book, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages, is a friendly guide to the first of these approaches, showing you how to dig into the HTML and XHTML standards to build Web pages, manage Web sites, and augment them with further levels of complexity style sheets and scripting among them. At the end of this book, you'll understand many of the more complex issues involved in Web publishing. You'll do this by building, chapter by chapter, an understanding of the authoring codes (for creating Web pages), the graphical and multimedia technologies, and eventually the scripting and programming basics necessary for a fully interactive and interesting Web site.

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages eBook:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=24O85FTN

383 pages, 7.2 mb, pdf format

Table of Contents at a Glance:

Part I Creating Web Pages
1 - The Fundamentals of Web Publishing
2 - A Crash-Course in Web Design
3 - What You Need to Get Started
4 - Creating Your First Page

Part II Design and Conquer
5 - Formatting Your Text
6 - Visual Stimulus-Adding Graphics
7 - Building Hypertext Links
8 - Table Basics
9 - Advanced Table Elements and Table Design
10 - Get Splashy: Style Sheets, Fonts, and Special Characters
11 - Advanced Web Images and Imagemaps

Part III Building Your Site
12 - Creating Sites with HTML Frames
13 - Adding Multimedia and Java Content
14 - Site-Wide Styles: Design, Accessibility, and Internationalization

Part IV Interacting with Your Users
15 - Adding HTML Forms
16 - CGIs and Data Gathering
17 - Forums, Chats, and Other Add-Ons