Website Magazine produces a suggested reading list for its readers once every few months and (lucky you) today's the day.
Our 2011 Spring Reading List for Web Professionals highlights just a few of the best books released recently.
Categories include search engine optimization, web design and development, affiliate programs, content management systems and more - including customer service via social media.
What are you reading right now?
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Affiliate Program Management - An Hour A Day
Written by expert affiliate manager Geno Prussakov, this step-by-step guide for launching, managing and building an affiliate marketing program and provides practical, approachable, day-to-day tasks covering everything from market research and creating program terms to motivating affiliates to outperform even their own expectations.
Search Engine Optimization Secrets
A true insiders guide to search engine optimization, Danny Dover (formerly of SEOmoz) and Erik Dafforn (of Intrapromote) provide readers with tactics, strategies and secrets for using SEO to improve rankings and drive traffic. The book also contains two full-length annotated SEO reports to help consultants.
Data Visualization With Flash Builder
If you're interested in Web application development, author Cesare Rochhi shows readers how to design and create functionally apps that interact with remote data souces with the powerful tools available in Flash Builer. Learn how to build user interactions, create charts, work with audio and video and customize a UI.
Joomla 1.6: A Users Guide
There's more than just Drupal and WordPress. Barrie North leverages his 20+ years of experience to guide readers step-by-step towards understanding content management, what Joomla does, and how its components fit together. Discover how to build Joomla sites from scratch and customize sites to fit specific needs.
Attention! This Book Will Make You Money
Jim Kukral once again masterfully shows small businesses how to use attention getting online marketing to increase revenue. Attention! provides readers with strategies and techniques for creating compelling hooks, maintaining a good brand name, making money with online videos and social media, getting and keeping subscribers and selling on the Web.
Customer Service: New Rules for a Social Media World
Social media expert Peter Shankman shows readers how to deliver amazing customer service using social media. Learn how to organize a social media team, listen to what key audiences are really saying, earn customer loyalty, rebuild credibility, capture customer knowledge and keep people talking.