“WordPress, the Missing Manual,” by Matthew MacDonald; $30 from oreilly.com.
WordPress may be the single most popular program for creating and maintaining a professional looking web site or blog. There is a free version of the program at the maker’s web site: wordpress.com, and they will even host your web site for free if you allow their logo to be part of the address. Hard to beat all that. By the way: we use WordPress software for our site, and you can see it at oncomp.com. Other users include Sony PlayStation, People Magazine and — gasp! — The Rolling Stones.