Web content providers will find HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide, written by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, to be an essential reference. Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference by Danny Goodman contains just about everything you need to know to create dynamic web content.

Designers who are getting started on the Web will find the basics of creating graphics and simple web pages in Web Design in a Nutshell and Learning Web Design, both by Jennifer Niederst. Designers who are interested in learning JavaScript should try Designing with JavaScript by Nick Heinle and Bill Peña.

Programmers on web sites should flock to CGI Programming with Perl by Scott Guelich, Shishir Gundavaram, and Gunther Birznicks; Perl in a Nutshell by Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, and Nathan Patwardhan; as well David Flanagan's JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf and Kevin Tatroe. For a Perl tutorial, we recommend Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz and Tom Phoenix, and Perl for Web Site Management by John Callendar; for more complete Perl documentation, we recommend the classic "Camel" book, Programming Perl, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant. mod_perl programmers should also check out Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C by Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern.

Anyone who works with HTTP directly, both programmers and administrators, will find HTTP: The Definitive Guide to be an absolutely indispensible.

Web site administrators might also consider the following references for their shelves: Apache: The Definitive Guide by Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie, Web Security and Commerce by Simson Garfinkel (with Gene Spafford), and Web Performance Tuning by Patrick Killelea.