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My Favourite Web Design books
Designing with Web StandardsDesigning with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
Buy used from: £1.33
A good guide towards future-proofing your code and increasing site accessibility.
Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style HandbookWeb Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook by Dan Cederholm
Buy new: £23.32 / Used from: £1.46
Semantics. Styles. Standards. Superb.
The ZEN of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter)The ZEN of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter) by Dave Shea
Buy new: £14.49 / Used from: £13.00
Not an essential when you can look at the Zen Garden site all you like, but reading through the methodologies of the CSS-driven designs is important.
Eric Meyer on CSS (Voices (New Riders))Eric Meyer on CSS (Voices (New Riders)) by Eric Meyer
Buy new: £24.51 / Used from: £5.00
Easy-to-understand, project-driven examples show you how to style your site.
More Eric Meyer on CSS (Voices That Matter)More Eric Meyer on CSS (Voices That Matter) by Eric Meyer
Buy new: £20.15 / Used from: £3.80
More projects from Eric Meyer. Can't get enough.
CSS Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))CSS Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) by Eric Meyer
Buy used from: £2.86
Anyone even pretending to be remotely serious about how they use CSS needs this essential reference guide.
CSS CookbookCSS Cookbook by Christopher Schmitt
Buy new: £24.95 / Used from: £3.48
More project-driven CSS but from a different author. Get used to seeing how differently and how similarly people code.
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (HTML & XHTML: Definitive Guide)HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (HTML & XHTML: Definitive Guide) by Chuck Musciano
Buy used from: £4.90
The Big Book of Tags and semantics. You probably already have this book. If not, what are you waiting for?
The Unusually Useful Web BookThe Unusually Useful Web Book by June Cohen
Buy new: £17.43 / Used from: £5.82
Focussed more on project management and meeting your goals, communicating with clients etc. Great if you want to go pro.
Web Redesign: Workflow That Works (Voices That Matter)Web Redesign: Workflow That Works (Voices That Matter) by Kelly Goto
Buy new: £16.49 / Used from: £13.99
This is a book about RE-designing sites, and again shows wonderful project management workflow.