web notes
These are the books and web resources where I learned web design.
books
These are my favorite books on web design.
CSS Mastery, Advanced Web Standards Solutions, Andy Budd, Apress, 2006, www.andybudd.com
Bulletproof Web Design, Dan Cederholm, New Riders, 2008 (2nd edition), www.simplebits.com
The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web, by Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag, Peachpit Press, 2005, www.csszengarden.com
Eric Meyer on CSS, Eric Meyer, New Riders, 2003, www.meyerweb.com
More Eric Meyer on CSS, Eric Meyer, New Riders, 2004, www.meyerweb.com
Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition), by Jeffrey Zeldman (from A List Apart), Peachpit Press, 2006, www.zeldman.com
Taking Your Talent to the Web, Jeffrey Zeldman (from A List Apart), New Riders, 2001, www.zeldman.com
websites
web design
www.alistapart.com: articles for web designers
www.westciv.com: Western Civilization Software - all about CSS
24ways.org: 24 ways to impress your friends (with your web design) by Dan Cederholm, author of "Bulletproof Web Design", New Riders, 2008 (2nd edition). Detailed descriptions of some of his CSS techniques.
hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey: Much of the information is old
www.webreference.com: Web Reference - Wendy Peck writes articles for this site
www.saila.com: Web design info and links to other sites
www.molly.com: Blog by Molly E. Holzschlag, web developer and author of web design books
web standards
www.webstandards.org/act/campaign/buc/: upgrade your browser
css
www.csszengarden.com: CSS Zen Garden, one HTML page, many style sheets, to show what can be done
www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/: Eric Meyer's CSS
meyerweb.com - Print Different: Create style sheets to control the look of a printed web page
www.positioniseverything.net: Position is everything
jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/: CSS validation service, validate your style sheet
www.browsercam.com: Browsercam lets you check your website under different browsers and platforms (pay for use)
copyright, disclaimers, legal issues
creativecommons.org: Creative Commons, all about copyrights
www.ivanhoffman.com: Articles about web legal issues.
color
www.lynda.com: Lynda Weinman - books and about colors on the web
www.devx.com: All about colors, sample colors to use on your site
www.tigercolor.com: Color Impact. You can purchase and download this software and run it on your computer to help pick colors for your website. Free trial available. I have been using this software.
www.colorschemer.com: Color Schemer. You can purchase and download this software and run it on your computer to help pick colors for your website. Free trial available.
search engines
scripts
sourceforge.net: Open source software for web developers.
misc
forums
www.webmasterworld.com: Great forums where web masters talk about running websites
www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums: Free search engine discussion forums
interesting websites about web design
"What I sense is a real tension between the web as we know it, and the web as it would be. It's the tension between an existing medium, the printed page, and its child, the web. And it's time to really understand the relationship between the parent and the child, and to let the child go its own way in the world."
The Dao of Web Design by John Allsop, published on A List Apart