Resources

Recommended Reading

Picture of the CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions book cover CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions : Andy Budd's new book covers a vast range of CSS topics including Background Images, Image Replacement, Forms, Data Tables, Layout, Hacks & Filters, Bug Fixing and also has two case studies to read into.

Bulletproof Web Design : Dan Cederholm's follow-up book to Web Standards Solutions is one of the best XHTML and CSS books to come out of a busy 2005. Chaptered into easy to read examples which are taken from real-life websites. Dan explains the pitfalls of "unbulletproof" concepts used by these websites and moves on to deconstruct and remake using bulletproof XHTML and CSS.

Picture of the Professional CSS book cover Professional CSS : Christopher Schmitt, Mark Trammell, Ethan Marcotte, Todd Dominey and Dunstan Orchard have co-authored this excellent book with each chapter focusing on a designer and a website they've been involved in.

Picture of the Zen of CSS Design book cover The Zen of CSS Design : New book by Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag to run along side the CSS-based website Zen Garden. Taking you through the phases of designing beautiful websites with Cascading Style Sheets.

Picture of the Don't Make Me Think book cover Don't Make Me Think : A common sense approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug. The title of the book says it all. A simple and clean book to help design usable sites. Visit the Advanced Common Sense website for more information.

Picture of the Web Bloopers book cover Web Bloopers : Jeff Johnson's approach to 60 of the most common web design mistakes through presentation, content, functionality and how to avoid them, using excellent examples from major websites.

Picture of the Web Standards Solutions book cover Web Standards Solutions : Containing the questions and answers on markup and style topics for Web Standards with extra tips and tricks for each topic. Authored by Dan Cederholm, and a must for all web designers and developers.

Picture of the Homepage Usability book cover Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed : Book focusing on home page design and usability showing the rights and wrongs on representing your website with your index page. Authored by Jakob Nielsen.

Picture of the Defensive Design book cover Defensive Design for the Web : No matter how good a website is, things will go wrong. This book shows you what to do things when things go wrong including 40 guidelines to prevent errors and rescue customers if a breakdown occurs.

Picture of the More Eric Meyer on CSS book cover More Eric Meyer on CSS : Follow up to Eric Meyer on CSS, with more projects from Eric. Each chapter is based on a project and each teaches advanced CSS techniques from photo galleries, list-based menus, reports, weblogs and an excellent chapter on Eric's Zen Garden design.