Links will be added throughout the semester
revised: 1 / 19 / 2011

BOOKS

Web Style Guide Online
Designing with Web Standards
Speaking in Styles

Web Design In A Nutshell
Handcrafted CSS
Bulletproof Web Design / how to design for things outside your control
Web Standards Solutions
Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work
CSS Mastery / Recommended by Malven
Communicating Design / the process of communicating web design concepts

Information Design
Information Anxiety 2
Ambient Findability / how we find and experience information today
Don’t Make Me Think / good overview of principles with practical applications
Universal Principles of Design / good overview of design principles
Laws of Simplicity / nice

SOFTWARE

Coda / One-window web development {$69}
skEdit / nice simple text editor for web dev {$35}
Espresso/ HTML editor from the CSS edit peeps {$80}
cssedit / great mac css editor {free/$39}
Cyber Duck / ftp client {free}
bbEdit / HTML editor {$49 edu}
Xyle Scope / Cultured Code {$20}

RESOURCES

VCU Ramsites Account Set-up
W3C Markup Validation Service / use it
HTML Entities

ARTICLES

The Internet Is Shit / always question