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ColourLovers, 0to255.com, css3please.com, Smashing Magazine
Smashing Mag's Twitter feed I find to be be more useful than the site itself. There's a fair bit of fluff but there's a lot of good stuff too. Plus, it's updated at a furious rate.
I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean by web design. So lets start there. a. The look: the graphic design of the page. b. The interaction: Usability and UX c. Designing and coding with good software design principles. d. Some thing else? I can point you to some good books for b. or c., however a. is the holy grail. I have never found a good book on web design from a graphic design perspective. That said Ill share…
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I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean by web design. So lets start there. a. The look: the graphic design of the page. b. The interaction: Usability and UX c. Designing and coding with good software design principles. d. Some thing else? I can point you to some good books for b. or c., however a. is the holy grail. I have never found a good book on web design from a graphic design perspective. That said Ill share…
Worth looking into are grid layouts, and CSS frameworks that making working with grids easier. I'm a fan of 960gs, but there are a few good ones.
I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean by web design. So lets start there. a. The look: the graphic design of the page. b. The interaction: Usability and UX c. Designing and coding with good software design principles. d. Some thing else? I can point you to some good books for b. or c., however a. is the holy grail. I have never found a good book on web design from a graphic design perspective. That said Ill share…
(a) is quite the tough one. Large part of the problem is taste. You need it, as does the author of any guidelines, and you and the author need to be in sync. Worth looking into are grid layouts, and CSS frameworks that making working with grids easier. I'm a fan of 960gs, but there are a few good ones. http://www.thegridsystem.org/ http://delicious.com/jamesbritt/Grid
Stay away from Kindle version though - in a twist of irony the book's layout has been severely corrupted, serving more as an anti-example to its own content.
I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean by web design. So lets start there. a. The look: the graphic design of the page. b. The interaction: Usability and UX c. Designing and coding with good software design principles. d. Some thing else? I can point you to some good books for b. or c., however a. is the holy grail. I have never found a good book on web design from a graphic design perspective. That said Ill share…
http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/index.php
It has really competent sections dedicated to aesthetics: typography, color, and layout. That he made it free is unbelievable. It's a resource I always recommend to the developers I work with (I'm a designer) who want to understand more about design.
I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean by web design. So lets start there. a. The look: the graphic design of the page. b. The interaction: Usability and UX c. Designing and coding with good software design principles. d. Some thing else? I can point you to some good books for b. or c., however a. is the holy grail. I have never found a good book on web design from a graphic design perspective. That said Ill share…
great list, thanks I wrote a blog post the went very briefly about design tips for programmers http://arandomurl.com/2010/07/07/design-tips-for-programmers... there is also a few linked resources from there, the video and the book at the end are really good.
I have found some good online articles http://delicious.com/csmeder/ux
The newest I've seen is http://forrst.com , I love it there.