web-design

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
$40.00
A bit too long, he could've provided the same information on less pages but I definitely recommend the book. It's worth reading, especially for anyone who's doing web stuff.

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
$39.95
This book was very helpful in my college online classes and I would recommend it to others for purchase.

The Web Designer's Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design
$25.00
This book was very helpful to me in my online college classes and I would recommend it to others for purchase.

Head First Web Design
$49.99
Pros: Easy read. Helpful methodologies. Good references.

I have to admit that I found the format of this book interesting. The writers' tried to inject a lot of character, color and some lightheartedness into something that can become very dry reading. Some aspects becoming tiring after a while, but an overall good job. There are some good strategies here. The books delivers good pointers on how to handle information architecture, lay out a web page and color theory. I also appreciated that the book was sprinkled with links to great online resources for site designers and ideas on how to moved forward once you've read the book.

Cons: Needs more meat

This book is great for folks needing to build simple web sites. That being said, I wish it could have touched a little more on the back-end, server side of developing a web site. It did touch on how to build a blog, but I would have like more discussion on database technologies and how to build an application.

Still a nice job and a learned a few things.