List of Recommended Web Design and Development Books

[justinOrel]

(01-26-2011 01:20 PM)petermoses Wrote:  Thanks for the list justin - I love to have books too, and have just bought The Principles of Beautiful Web Design. I'll let you know what I think when it gets here...

Meantime, I can suggest a book to avoid:
How to do everything with php & mysql - should be called 'how to make a shopping cart or simple cms with php mysql, in a poorly explained fashion'
I did learn the basics of php using this book, but it was badly thought out IMO, and thank god I got it from the library instead of buying it.

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A book I'd suggest is Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm. Not a big package, but quality over quantity. The book takes situations that every designer can face during a normal design process, and explains what is usually done wrong, then takes the right route to create it in the correct manner.

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That book is on my Amazon wishlist, I'll hopefully be buying it soon.