Good Web Deisgn books at the local library

Ooooh, cool! They have Meyer, that's good enough!

The nearest thing to a web design book I've read recently was "XML in a nutshell" (one of those O'Reilly books). Very good, but a little hard on the brain

Thanks for the tip Megan, will have to go and badger the local library to see what they have!

Heres mine... (Our Local Library doesnt have any but have many book stores here)
JavaScript, for the WWW, 5th Ed. visual quickstart guide by Negrino and Smith
Web Design, Introductory concepts and Techniques, by Shelly Cashman Kosteba...
And Some ebook versions for carry along reading...

I think the last web book I picked up is the Zen Garden book, but I've not yet had enough time to read it. The wife and I are moving today and tomorrow, and that tends to eat up time.

Eeek, Tim... I moved recently as well. It's a nightmare! Hope it all goes smoothly

Designing Web Usability by Nielson should be on that list!

Yeah right, he needs to be shot.

Maybe, but ugh, that guy has an ego problem! I remember reading a year end column once where he attempted to prove that since 80% of web designers hadn't read his column then therefore 80% of web sites had those same usability problems Haven't read anything of his since.

ETA: Of course, now I can't find it! Maybe it never existed in the first place :eek:

Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman, now that's one that they should have! I put in an official request so hopefully they'll get it. (Of course I should really just bite the bullet and buy some of these! Web design books can be so expensive.)

While looking for that article, I found this:

Jakob Nielsen Declares the Letter "C" Unusable

(okay, so I'm bored at work today ... again)

... guess he did go a bit overboard. I remember when it was him and one other guy as the main Web design "authorities"... I think this was/is his washed up other half: WebSitesThatSuck.com

I think he pretty much declared himself to be a "guru" too. That's annoying.

When I was in USA I found a couple of libraries have shops, they were selling some older books, I managed to buy several on C\C++, vrml (not sure why), CSS, JSS (netscape css) and others, sadly my eyes were to big for my suitcase and had to leave most of them there. They were only 10-50 cents each depending on the condition of the covers

Jakob Nielsen is an idiot. Who, in their right mind, comes up with an idea that the letter C is "Unusable." He would place on my top ten list of stupid people.

I just had to say that.

Anyway, I never thought about checking the library for web development books. I'll check it out this weekend and see what's up. Thanks for the inspiration Megan.

Well, some of the books came in.

Redsign 2.0 looks really good. There's even inserts by Zeldman, Eric Meyer, Lynda Weinman and some other big names !! Really good outline for the design process including a lot of business planning and project mangment that designers probably don't think about enough. Anyone who does serious web design projects should see this book.

The writing one is terrible. All marketing shpeak. I hate that crap.

The training one I just got because it relates to what I do at work. It's really old though so doesn't seem to have much useful information (copyrighted 2000, but the screenshots look more 1998).

The Eric Meyer CSS is more of a reference book (from O'Reilly). I'm not sure if I'll pick through this or not. I'm sure there's lots of good stuff to learn sprinkled through all the stuff I already know. I think all web designers should own a book like this. I think the Eric Meyer on CSS would be more interesting.... I should go add this stuff to my Amazon wish list while I'm thinking of it.

What do you recommend for someone wanting to learn CSS from the ground all the way up? Starting with basics and then ending with all the advanced tricks...

Cascading style sheets : the definitive guide looks really good. Eric Meyer is one of the top CSS gurus out there so I don't think you can go wrong with his books.