Performance is the key to success of any websites. And as a matter of fact, the time a web browser loading a web page takes up about 80% of the total time consumed when a visitor is accessing this page. Thus, especially for the current rich media websites or web apps, speed is extremely important. In Even Faster Web Sites, you will learn how to save the valuable website loading time, so as to make your site respond to user's requests more quickly.

A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web is a very compact and concise (only 261 pages) technical guide for web designing based on the graphic design principles. The whole book was divided into 5 big parts: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Color, and Layout.

Stylizer is a professional and popular visual CSS code editor on the market, developed by Skybound from Canada. Although you can choose to use full-featured IDE or some source code editors instead, the professional capabilities and features of Stylizer can help you write your CSS code better and faster.

First of all, I will tell website front-end developers High Performance Web Sites (handy and capable with only 170 pages) is a remarkable and essential knowledge guide book for front-end engineers. Hope it can draw you enough attention.

PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites, 4th Edition is an acclaimed PHP and MySQL tutorial guide with many reprints. It uses the task-based approach to teach PHP & MySQL, guides readers to learn them in depth with the help of lots of illustrations, and shows readers how to use PHP & MySQL to develop dynamic web sites well.