Technologies

If you only read one book about website features and design, read this one!

Steve Krug’s book is great at helping you cut through to what’s important when designing your website. See more great book recommendations here

Wordpress

State-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. It also means you are free to use it for anything without paying anyone a license fee.