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web resources ↷

1. The list wiki at css-discuss
2. A List Apart
3. The Web Standards Project
4. World Wide Web Consortium
5. W3C Schools
6. 24 ways
7. John Hood's The Best of Free Software
8. The Yahoo! UI (User Interface) Library (YUI)
9. and don't forget to Ask or Google

reference texts ↷

1. AJAX on Rails

   by Scott Raymond, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0-596-52744-0

2. Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design

   by Richard York, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2005, ISBN: 0-7645-7642-9

3. Begining Ruby on Rails™

   by Steven Holzner PhD, Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2007,ISBN-13: 978-0-470-06915-8

4. Bulletproof Web Design

   by Dan Cedarholm, New Riders Publishing, 2006, ISBN: 0-321-34693-9

5. Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge™

   by Molly E. Holzschlag, Sybex Inc., 2003, ISBN: 0-7821-4184-6

6. CSS Cookbook™

   by Christopher Schmitt, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004, ISBN: 0-596-00576-8

7. CSS Pocket Reference, Second Edition

   by Eric A. Meyer, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004, ISBN: 0-596-00777-9

8. Designing Web Usability; The Practice of Simplicity

   by Jakob Nielsen, New Riders Publishing, 2000, ISBN: 1-56205-810-X

9. Designing with Web Standards

   by Jeffry Zeldman, New Riders Publishing, 2003, ISBN: 0-7357-1201-8

10. Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design

    by Eric A. Meyer, New Riders Publishing, 2003, ISBN: 0-73571-245-X

11. Home Page Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed

    by Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir, New Riders Publishing, 2002, ISBN: 0-7357-1102-X

12. HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition

    by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2002, ISBN: 0-596-00382-X

13. HTML for the World Wide Web, Fifth Edition, with HTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide®

    by Elizabeth Castro, Peachpit Press, 2003, ISBN: 0-321-13007-3

14. JavaScript & AJAX, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide®

    by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith, Peachpit Press, 2007, ISBN: 0-321-43032-8

15. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide®

    by J. Tarin Towers, Peachpit Press, 2005, ISBN: 0-321-21339-4

16. MySQL, Second Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide®

    Larry Ullman, Peachpit Press, 2006, ISBN: 0-321-37573-4

design examples ↷

Here is a list of websites that prove, at least in my mind, that fully functional design can look great. In no particular order,

1. Claire Campbell's tanfa
2. Douglas Bowman's stop design
3. Roger Johansson's 456 Berea Street
4. The gorgeous css Zen Garden
5. Cameron Moll's Authentic Boredom
6. Jon Hicks' Hicksdesign
7. Dan Cederholm's SimpleBits
8. Dave Shea's Mezzoblue

source material ↷

Experts, guides, heavy-weights, mentors, brain trust, knowledge base; whatever you want to call them, they are often cited as sources who have, or are making things happen in web design and standards. In no particular order,

1. Eric Meyer's meyerweb.com
2. Molly Holzschlag's molly.com
3. Jeffrey Zeldman's zeldman.com
4. Jakob Nielsen's useit.com