web page design books/ text?

[bobthedinosaur]

i know theres a lot of designers hanging around here, so was wondering if any of you have books to recommend pertaining to web design?

[smoth]

zen garden

[bobthedinosaur]

thats kind of vague..

[TheBigPK]

http://www.csszengarden.com/
displays the power of CSS, which is easy as hell to learn and it's standard to have tons of it used cleverly for a decent page
http://www.w3schools.com/
web design for noobs.

google around, i frequented quite a few good blogs and such but i haven't been web coding in a bit and i reformatted my hd sooo they're all gone; but there is definitely a TON of help online that's easy to find.

[bobthedinosaur]

cool beans, thanks you two

[AF]

http://www.smashingmagazine.com
http://www.css-tricks.com

I subscribe to those and read the posts, very useful

[Forboding Angel]

php.net

webpagesthatsuck.com (what NOT to do).

Learn CSS.

Understand that your user most likely has a screen resolution larger than 700px wide.

[smoth]

also this:

[Forboding Angel]

heh... There's actually a lot of truth to that...

[AF]

mylene klass?

[Dragon45]

'web design' can encompass any one of a billion different things. generally people mean CSS + HTML + AJAX nowadays, but i've also heard it used to refer to stuff like PHP, Rails, etc.

So do you want to learn how to design web pages? web sites? add functionality to existing web sites? draw web sites?


if you have something specific you want to be able to do, post it before we lead you astray