Recommended Books and Products

The following book and product recommendations are not only here to make us incredibly rich - they really helped us in our job and with our career. Furthermore, they are fun to read and save you a lot of time when developing web sites.

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  Bulletproof CSS by Dan Cederholm

  Dan Cederholm must be my favourite CSS book author. No evangelism, no non-sense fun and games, just straight forward examples of how to create CSS designs that are pretty and can withstand flexible content and sizes.

  £20.29

  

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  Web Standards Solutions by Dan Cederholm

  Dan Cederholm's book is a hands-on example book showing you how to solve different design and markup problems with web standards. It does not rave on for hours about the importance of web standards, but shows how to use them. If you want to have a handy "how do I do that in HTML and CSS?" reference, this is it.

  £15.40

  

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  Professional CSS

  This book shows step by step how some of the biggest CSS projects to date have been accomplished.

  £17.49

  

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  Don't make me think! by Steve Krug

  Steve Krug's book is a very easy and quick to read guide on basic usability. It should be read by anyone who designs web sites. Krug explains how basic usability works, how you can avoid confusing your visitors and gives examples what worked for others. Included is also a guide to low cost usability testing. You can finish the book on a long train ride and save hours of development with the wrong focus.

  £17.49

  

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  Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman

  This gem by Jeffrey Zeldman should be on the bookshelf of any interaction designer. Quite straight to the point and rooted in real life, it explains how you can safe time and money by developing web sites using standards for markup. It is a practical book, explaining how to use XHTML and CSS and why we never really bothered to take the standards seriously.

  £13.75