Recommended Reading
We recommend the following books. We've ranked them in order of priority.
The first - HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions: A Web Standardistas' Approach (by the final year design lecturers) - is essential reading for anyone embarking on a career writing standards based markup (that's you). If you don't have a copy get one now.
HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions - A Web Standardistas' Approach
Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson
Written by the final year design tutors, HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions will teach you how to build future-proof web pages the right way, using easy to master tools, which are all available for free.
Regardless of your computing platform — Mac OS, Windows or Linux — it recommends the right tool for the job. Step-by-step it covers how to construct well-structured HTML pages and how to apply layout and style to these pages using CSS.
CSS Artistry
Andy Clarke
Andy Clarke's CSS Artistry is a web design masterclass in a box. We strongly recommend the combined book and DVD edition which offers a 2½ hour masterclass on DVD.
Although we only briefly showed you the DVD it builds upon the book considerably, offering you insight into the working process of a noted standardista and talented designer.
Given that the cost of a one day masterclass with the aforementioned Mr Clark runs to £395, a mere £38.99 for both the book Transcending CSS and the DVD Inspired CSS is, shall we say, a bargain.