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• Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed (2014), by Lara Callender Hogan (illustrated HTML with commentary at designingforperformance.com)
• Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences With Progressive Enhancement (first edition, c2011), by Aaron Gustafson, contrib. by Jeffrey Zeldman (illustrated HTML with commentary at adaptivewebdesign.info)
• Web Style Guide (third edition, 2008), by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton (illustrated HTML at webstyleguide.com)
• Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application (2006), by 37signals (Firm) (HTML with commentary at 37signals.com)
• Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing (electronic edition, revised 2003), by Philip Greenspun (HTML at greenspun.com)
• Building Accessible Websites (online edition; originally published 2002), by Joe Clark (HTML with commentary at joeclark.org)
• Real World Adobe GoLive 6 (2002), by Jeff Carlson and Glenn Fleishman (illustrated HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Web Style Guide (second edition, 2002), by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton (HTML at webstyleguide.com)
• Database Backed Web Sites (electronic edition, 1997), by Philip Greenspun (HTML at greespun.com)
• Digital Foundations (electronic "flossified" edition, 2009), by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg (multiple formats at flossmanuals.net)
• Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite (working version, 2009), by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg (illustrated HTML at digital-foundations.net)
• PHP 5 Power Programming (Indianapolis: Prentice-Hall, c2005), by Andi Gutmans, Stig Sæther Bakken, and Derick Rethans (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• Electronic Engagement: A Guide for Public Sector Managers (2007), by Peter John Chen (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Dot-Font: Talking About Design (text-only version; originally published 2006), by John D. Berry (multiple formats with commentary at dot-font.com)
• SVG Essentials (c2002), by J. David Eisenberg (illustrated HTML with commentary at oreilly.com)
• Perl for the Web (2001), by Chris Radcliff (HTML with commentary at globalspin.com)
• Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines (electronic edition), by United States Department of Health and Human Services and United States General Services Administration (PDF files at usability.gov)
• Building Secure Microsoft ASP.NET Applications: Authentication, Authorization, and Secure Communication, by J. D. Meier, Alex Mackman, Michael Dunner, and Srinath Vasireddy (frame-dependent HTML at Microsoft)
• Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS, by Jonathan Snook (multiple formats with commentary at smacss.com)
• Creating Applications With Mozilla (electronic edition), by David Boswell, Brian King, Brian Oeschger, Pete Collins, and Eric Murphy (HTML at mozdev.org)

• Weave: Journal of Library User Experience (2014-) (full serial archives)

• Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines (electronic edition), by United States Department of Health and Human Services and United States General Services Administration (PDF files at usability.gov)

• Teaching Tech Together: How to Create and Deliver Lessons That Work and Build a Teaching Community Around Them (free online editions in English and Spanish; c2019), by Greg Wilson (illustrated HTML with commentary at teachtogether.tech)

• Responsive Web Design for Libraries: A LITA Guide (Chicago: ALA TechSource, 2014), by Matthew Reidsma (PDF at gvsu.edu)

• Real World Adobe GoLive 6 (2002), by Jeff Carlson and Glenn Fleishman (illustrated HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0 (electronic edition; based on the 2003 edition with Wiki updates), by Chris Ullman, David Buser, Jon Duckett, Brian Francis, John Kauffman, Juan T. Llibre, and David Sussman (HTML with commentary at wrox.com)
• The Nitecki Trilogy, by Joseph Z. Nitecki (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009) (full serial archives)

• Speaking JavaScript: An In-Depth Guide for Programmers (originally published 2014), by Axel Rauschmayer (HTML with commentary at speakingjs.com)

• Building Accessible Websites (online edition; originally published 2002), by Joe Clark (HTML with commentary at joeclark.org)

• A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2020), ed. by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Ellen Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• The Social Design of Technical Systems: Building Technologies for Communities (second edition, 2014), by Brian Whitworth and Adnan Ahmad (illustrated HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)
• Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World (open access edition; Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2013), by Ulises Ali Mejias (PDF with commentary at umn.edu)
• Introducing Vigilant Audiences (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov, and Qian Huang (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective (London: UCL Press, c2017), by Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
• Facets of Facebook: Use and Users (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2016), ed. by Kathrin Knautz and Katsiaryna S. Baran
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
• It's Complicated: The Social Life of Networked Teens (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2014), by danah boyd (PDF with commentary at danah.org)
• Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013), ed. by Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (multiple formats with commentary at networkcultures.org)
• The Art of Community (second edition; c2012), by Jono Bacon (PDF at artofcommunityonline.org)
• The Art of Community (first edition; c2009), by Jono Bacon (PDF with commentary at artofcommunityonline.org)
• How the World Changed Social Media (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Daniel Miller, Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliana Spyer, S. Venkatraman, and Xinyuan Wang
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Evaluation and Credentialing in Digital Music Communities: Benefits and Challenges for Learning and Assessment (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by H. Cecilia Suhr (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Exploring Lift (c2012), by Derek Chen-Becker, Marius Danciu, and Tyler Weir (PDF and HTML with commentary at liftweb.net)
• Simply Lift (c2011), by David Pollak (HTML at liftweb.net)
• Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed (2014), by Lara Callender Hogan (illustrated HTML with commentary at designingforperformance.com)
• Pro HTML5 Programming (interactive online edition, ca. 2011), by Peter Lubbers, Brian Albers, Frank Salim, and Tony Pye (HTML at jensimmons.com)
• Dive Into HTML5 (later published as "HTML5: Up and Running"; 2010), by Mark Pilgrim (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application (2006), by 37signals (Firm) (HTML with commentary at 37signals.com)
• Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (free electronic edition, c2011), by Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (illustrated HTML with commentary at linkeddatabook.com)
• HTML5 for Web Designers (c2010), by Jeremy Keith (HTML with commentary at html5forwebdesigners.com)
• Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (c2008), by Raymond Yee (HTML at mashupguide.net)
• Practical Mod_Perl (2003), by Stas Bekman and Eric Cholet (multiple formats with commentary at modperlbook.org)
• Speaking JavaScript: An In-Depth Guide for Programmers (originally published 2014), by Axel Rauschmayer (HTML with commentary at speakingjs.com)
• The Definitive Guide to Plone, by Andy McKay (illustrated HTML in Germany)
• The Java Web Services Tutorial, by Eric Armstrong, Stephanie Bodoff, Debbie Carson, Maydene Fisher, Scott Fordin, Dale Green, Kim Haase, and Eric Jendrock (HTML at sun.com)
• Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development With Rails, by Michael Hartl (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at railstutorial.org)
• Building Secure Microsoft ASP.NET Applications: Authentication, Authorization, and Secure Communication, by J. D. Meier, Alex Mackman, Michael Dunner, and Srinath Vasireddy (frame-dependent HTML at Microsoft)
• How to Code in HTML5 and CSS3, by Damian Wielgosik (multiple formats with commentary at howtocodeinhtml.com)
• Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines (electronic edition), by United States Department of Health and Human Services and United States General Services Administration (PDF files at usability.gov)
• Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason, by Dave Rolsky and Ken Williams (HTML with commentary at houseabsolute.com)
• Test-Driven Development With Python, by Harry Percival (illustrated HTML with commentary at obeythetestinggoat.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.