Web design: books and web resources

A few key titles and sites on the subject of web design are listed for quick reference. If you have updates for this list, please leave a comment.

Books on web design

Fleming, Jennifer. 1998. Web navigation: Designing the user experience. Sebastapol, CA: O’Reilly, ISBN 1565923510.

Holzschlag, Molly E. 2003. Cascading style sheets: the designer’s edge. San Francisco: Sybex.

Lynch, Patrick J., and Sarah Horton. 1999. Web style guide. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, ISBN 0300076754.

Sano, D. 1996. Designing large-scale Web sites: A visual design methodology. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 047114276X.

Siegel, David. 1996. Creating killer Web sites: The art of third-generation site design. Indianapolis, IN: Hayden Publishing, ISBN 1568304331.

Spool, Jared, and others. 1998. Web site usability: A designer’s guide. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ISBN 155860569X.

Williams, Robin, and John Tollett. 1997. The non-designer’s Web book: An easy guide to creating, designing, and posting your own Web site. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, ISBN 0201710382.

Web design: websites, blogs, online magazines

A List Apart for people who make websites (December 2005)

Cascading style sheet demonstration and learning materials. Click a design link on the right and see the page transformed based on different styles. (July 2005)

Design patterns for web development. (December 2005)

Digital Web magazine (December 2005)

Gerry McGovern http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/ (August 2005)

Hexadecimal Triple Color Codes. (December 2005)

IA and CSS.” Presentation by Christina Wodtke and Nate Koechley at WebVisions 2004. Use of CSS and HTML markup to convey the structure of a website in the design process. (link current June 2005)

O’Reilly Network weblogs (May 2005)

Search engine optimization:
http://www.highrankings.com
http://searchenginewatch.com/
http://www.seotoday.com/

Search engine optimization article (July 2005)

Tool for development of dynamic websites: WebSmith. Flash movie explaining the software. (August 2005)

Tools for site management (August 2005)

Tremendo weblog (May 2005)

URLwire headlines (May 2005)

US Government usability guidelines (June 2005)

Web design discussion (January 2006)

The Web Developer’s Handbook, a list of websites for developers by Vitaly Friedman. (February 2006)

Web graphics. (2005)

Web pages that suck (January 2006)

Web standards by Russ Weakley, Australia. Archive of weekly emails with useful links. (April 2006)

2 Responses to “Web design: books and web resources”

  1. Marcia Poulsen Says:

    Here’s another great book on web design, specifically web redesign:

    Goto, Kelly and Emily Cotler. 2005. Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow That Works. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press (New Riders), ISBN 0735714339.

    (from Marcia Poulsen)

  2. Ann L. Wiley Says:

    More design patterns:

    http://designinginterfaces.com/; formerly http://www.time-tripper.com/uipatterns/;
    http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Interfaces-Jenifer-Tidwell/dp/0596008031

    Book “Design of Sites’” by Dyune and others, reviewd at http://enterframe.blogspot.com/2006/12/book-review-design-of-sites.html

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