WordPress for Dummies
by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
on sale at Amazon.Com - accepting advanced sales at this time. Approx. release date: 9/24/07.

From Amazon.Com: “This book will provide the following benefits to readers: Advice and help on every aspect of installing, using, and customizing WordPress. Illustrations from real-world blogs will include screenshots and specific examples that bring the book’s concepts and ideas to life. Step-by-step tutorials will walk readers through the process of choosing which “flavor” of WordPress software to use, installing WordPress on any Web server, and even moving a blog currently maintained using other blog software to WordPress. Real-world stories from business and individuals who have used and recommend WordPress. ”

Transcending CSS by Andy Clarke and Molly E. Holzschlag.

From Amazon.Com: “As the Web evolves to incorporate new standards and the latest browsers offer new possibilities for creative design, the art of creating Web sites is also changing. Few Web designers are experienced programmers, and as a result, working with semantic markup and CSS can create roadblocks to achieving truly beautiful designs using all the resources available. Add to this the pressures of presenting exceptional design to clients and employers, without compromising efficient workflow, and the challenge deepens for those working in a fast-paced environment. As someone who understands these complexities firsthand, author and designer Andy Clarke offers visual designers a progressive approach to creating artistic, usable, and accessible sites using transcendent CSS.”

Blog Design Solutions by by Phil Sherry, Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Michael Heilemann, Richard Rutter, David Powers , Chris J. Davis and John Oxton.

From Amazon.Com: “In this book, a team of renowned web designers take you through the ins and outs of putting together great blogs. They waste no time harking on about the philosophy of blogs, or the community behind them. Instead, they get straight to the practical details, showing how to set up a basic blog in some of the world’s most popular blogging engines — Movable Type, ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Textpattern. With your blog set up, they then show you how to build great looking, usable layouts for your blog. The last chapter even shows you how to build your very own PHP/MySQL-based blog engine!”