CSS font stacks, media style sheets & web standards
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By Steve Krug
A richly illustrated book that gets straight to the point of Web design; users will not tolerate sites that make it difficult to get what they want. This is a book that will set you thinking, "that's what I thought!" throughout, but Krug shows rather than tells and the points are more successful for it.
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By Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
This book wades into the nitty gritty issues of classification, organisation and labelling systems for Web content with a clear methodology that will help you think twice about how obvious your navigation schemes really are. The authors include many practical tips on research and planning for content acquisition and deployment throughout.
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By Jeffrey Zeldman
The often outspoken advocate general of the Web Standards Project and leading light of A List Apart takes a refreshing, user friendly tour through the must have skills in Web development. Zeldman's no-nonsense approach to "What is anti-aliasing?" and the like is very engaging and enjoyable to read.
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By Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler
This is a book that extends one's perspective on commercial design and development projects. There are no big surprises in the scope of the subject matter, but the authors deliver a well grounded, methodical guide to the delivery of large scale Web sites from which any reader will glean useful professional techniques.
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by Jakob Nielsen
If one can look beyond the prescriptive, evangelistic zeal of the author, there are gems to be found in this book. For every well documented case there is an overstated conclusion to be drawn, however, so take Neilsen's advice with a measure of scepticism.
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The HTML FAQ by HTML Help covers all aspects of Web page design, including:
Grey Box Methodology by Jason Santa Maria is an outline of his concept and composition process.
The Bobby accessibility review tool has been taken out of public service and is now only available as a part of the IBM Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition. The system scans Web sites and reports accessibility issues in relation to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, or optionally the U.S. Section 508 Guidelines.
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