Good website design books/Tutorials?

[Bagster]

I have several websites that I would like to create, but I have very little knowledge of html/css. Could anyone point me in the directions of either a good book or a good online tutorial teaching web design and css? Any good gimp resources would also be greatly appreciated!

[LaRoza]

I have several websites that I would like to create, but I have very little knowledge of html/css. Could anyone point me in the directions of either a good book or a good online tutorial teaching web design and css? Any good gimp resources would also be greatly appreciated!

The sticky in the programming talk and my wiki.

[Bagster]

Thanks a lot for the links. What about books? Are there any books anyone would reccomend, as a well as online guides?

[Peter76]

My favourite is: Web design in a nutshell from O'Reilly. I knew hardly anything about web design and this covers quite a bit of html and css plus more. It's quite a big nutshell... And also a good reference manual to have lying around

[id1337x]

HTML and CSS are very simple (IMHO) so I actually learned them from here http://www.w3schools.com/ and http://www.tizag.com/.

If you want to work with actual languages a book is quite important so I use "PHP and MySQL for dynamic websites" and "JavaScript and AJAX visual quickstart guide."

[Bagster]

HTML and CSS are very simple (IMHO) so I actually learned them from here http://www.w3schools.com/ and http://www.tizag.com/.

Yeah - these are good resources, and I agree that html and css are pretty straightforwards, however there is still a skill in producing good looking sites. It's more for the tricks and good design practice I want the books for. At the moment I'm not particularly looking for a dynamic site, just something that looks professional and well written, without many bells and whistles, so I'm not particularly interested in PHP, etc at the moment.

The "Web Design In a nutshell" book sounds pretty good though, and more like what I'm looking for at the moment!
Thanks for the recommendations folks!

[billgoldberg]

I took an excellent html/ccs online free course, but it was in dutch so I doubt you'll be able to use it.

What can be of interest to you is this website:

http://www.code-sucks.com/css%20layouts/

it offers bare css layouts, you can learn a lot by re-doing them from scratch and seeing if things matches (or you could just rip the code and adjust it to your liking).

For the html/css guide: google is your friend.

Books are a waste of money as everything can be found online for free.

note: if you are taking an online course and they are advising to do the layout with tables, leave site immediately.

Not really what you asked for, but making a site just from html and css is a bit old fashioned and hard to maintain.

It's a lot easier to use software for that (not like frontpage or dreamweaver, not that kind of software).

I found that wordpress.org (http://wordpress.org/) is an excellent way of managing a website and there are thousands of templates online (http://www.wpthemesfree.com/). You can have a professional, good looking website up and running in 10 minutes.

(the blog in my signature is also wordpress, but hosted on wordpress.com where you have less options)

[milehigh]

I find this site useful:
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/

[Graphics]

Try this link " web design books (http://cgraphics.weebly.com/web-design.html)" , read the product descriptions and customer reviews (if any) or visit the links in the home page " computer graphics books (http://cgraphics.weebly.com/index.html)" ther are plenty of tutorials (learning CG).

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

www.cssplay.co.uk - enough tips and tricks to last a lifetime.

for the basics http://www.w3schools.com/ is a worthy site

[Kdar]

to learn basics about HTML and CSS just check online, like few other people advised.

And if you want to learn about something like Drupal or Joomla, get a good on one of them (but I like Drupal more, more power to developers).