Another great post from iamlost from cre8asiteforums.com*. If you are looking for a resource for books to help with website analyitics, conversion testing, landing page testing, copywriting or usability, then this list will certainly be of value.
Top 3 Web Development Books
- Web Analytics: An Hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik
- Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Top 10 Books on Optmization, Usability, Analytics and Sales
- Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions by Tim Ash
- Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis by Stephen Few
- Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability by Jarrett and Gaffney
- Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen
- Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen
- Web Analytics Demystified: A Marketer’s Guide to Understanding How Your Web Site Affects Your Business by Eric Peterson
- Web Site Measurement Hacks: Tips & Tools to Help Optimize Your Online Business by Eric Peterson
- Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works by Janice Redish
- Search Engine Advertising: Buying Your Way to the Top to Increase Sales by Catherine Seda
- Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, 2nd Edition by Wodtke and Govella
6 Books For the Advanced Web Developer and Optimizer
- Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services by Kim Goodwin
- How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of “Intangibles” in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard
- Universal Principles of Design by Lidwell, Holden, Butler
- Mining the Web: Transforming Customer Data into Customer Value by Linoff and Berry
- Drilling Down: Turning Customer Data into Profits with a Spreadsheet, Third Edition by Jim Novo
- Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics by Tullis and Albert
For any part of the job that you decide to do yourself, rather than outsource or contract out, you should make an effort to maximise your skills in that area. All these books can be ordered from our Amazon store. For UK readers, all the books can also be ordered from our UK Store.
*Cre8asiteforums.com is a friendly web design/development/marketing forum. It is one of the oldest forums of its type on the net and one of the few forums that still provides excellent discussion and opinion from a wide range of seasoned web professionals and experts.
