Web Design Book Recommendation

Ciba · 16 Oct 2007 at 21:13

I'm looking for a good book which covers the basic aspects of web design, the use of CSS, html, php etc but I dont really know where to start.

Any recommendations?

SiriusB · 16 Oct 2007 at 21:25

XHTML CSS and PHP is a very large spectrum and I don't think any book would adequately cover it all.

My personal recommendation, before buying a book, would be to go too www.w3schools.com and follow the XHTML and CSS tutorials. Once you are comfortable with those two languages, then you can move on to PHP. I believe the W3Schools site also has a PHP tutorial.

psyr33n · 16 Oct 2007 at 21:28

DO NOT USE W3SCHOOLS EVER. EVER. EVER.

HTML & CSS: htmldog.com and the book, end of story. Widely-suggested books such as Zeldman's DWWS are usually bad—as in incorrectly bad and talk full of tripe.

PHP: the PHP manual and its comments (as well as ****loads of tutorials on the net) will suffice a lot of the time, otherwise O'Reilly books are usually good.

Ciba · 18 Oct 2007 at 15:56

Cheers guys, I'll have a look at what you recommend.

SiriusB · 18 Oct 2007 at 16:25

What's wrong with W3C Schools?

It is where I started and I have never had a problem.

swinnie · 18 Oct 2007 at 16:35

I started with W3Schools and have also never had a problem. It is just so handy, whenever I have forgotten something that is where I go.

SiriusB · 18 Oct 2007 at 17:36

It has a great reference section too - especially handy for when you can't remember a property or what its attributes are.

I also like the code sandbox where you can mess about and see your results straight away - great for when you want to test a small piece of code/css.