Comments on: 15 Books For Beginners To Learn Web Design

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:31:05 +0000

Great list. ‘learning web design’ is a very good book.

By: puhpah

puhpah — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:37:22 +0000

i have read some of them. “Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual” is my favorite.

By: robbie

robbie — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:32:27 +0000

your information is appreciable thanx alot

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:25:55 +0000

I have several of the books you mentioned above. However, I would be interested in knowing what were the two books you purchased to learn php and mysql?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:50:44 +0000

Yeh louis, nice one

By: Louis Frankland

Louis Frankland — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:21:01 +0000

What about all the hours I spent with you teaching you Photoshop, CSS, PHP and creating your first blog?

Good on you though – you’re doing well!

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:00:54 +0000

Is it me, or does anyone else find these free online coding tutorials hard to follow?… u know the ones that teach how to code up a psd design into a working html & css file,

For one thing, they seem very rushed often provide very vaugue descriptions when explaining each step which often leaves me very frustrated when trying to fill in the gaps in my mind, going back and forth over the tutorial and finding, even though I have followed the tutorial step by step, what I produce almost never works which often leaves me very frustrated.

The trouble is, these designers that write these tutorials seem to think they can simply take off there designers hat and replace it with a teaching cap, well I’m afraid to say it’s not quite as a simple as that, and teaching is a skilled profession that has to be learn like any other profession.

So my advice to any other designers that need to learn how to code websites is this, go buy and invest in some of the recommended books above and learn the correct way from the start in a well explained manner. Stay well clear from free online tutorials!!

By: Art Webb

Art Webb — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:46:42 +0000

I would add “Bulletproof Web Design” – http://bit.ly/46s5DX and Handcrafted CSS – http://bit.ly/2fL7bA

By: Tyler Dockery

Tyler Dockery — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:28:49 +0000

I learned some of my best first licks with those jackrabbit books… Now I build websites all day long…. If you didn’t know for sure, that is still an endorsement.

-tyler dockery

By: Edgar Leijs

Edgar Leijs — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:49:28 +0000

You forget one!

I would definitely recommend Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition) by Jeffrey Zeldman!

Here also on amazon http://bit.ly/AODUv

Gr!