A few people reading this already know I’m a web designer. This is something you might not guess from simply looking at this site but that’s what I do during my week - design sites. I just don’t talk about it too much. It’s not that I’ve got nothing to say on the subject, I could say plenty. But there are plenty of people doing it for me already (see the blogroll for instance). One day I might write a groundbreaking, engaging essay on web standards, web graphic design, usability, accessibility using some real-world sites I’ve worked on. For now I continue to feel similarly to Mr. Zeffrey Zeldman on the matter. So, instead, I’ll provide you with a rather nice montage of covers of books I use in my day-to-day work. If I was really clever, I’d attach links to each of the books via the magic of CSS but today I simply don’t have the time. So I’ll just list them below.
- Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer’s Edge
- Defensive Design for the web
- Designing web usability
- Designing with web standards
- The complete guide to Digital Graphic Design
- Don’t make me think
- Eric Meyer on CSS
- Homepage usability
- Logo design that works
- The non-designer’s design book
- The art of looking sideways
- HTML and XHTML - The definitive guide
- Web graphics for non-designers
- WebRedesign | Workflow that works
- Web standards solutions
- PHP and MYSQL for dynamic web sites
I hope to post my own reviews of these books sometime. For now, read the reviews on Amazon - they’re fairly balanced.