Best book / link for web dev

[keithbaglee]

New to this community and I may be in the wrong area but throw some good web design books and links at me ( and redirect if possible ) . Im trying to learn how to build from scratch, embed, etc. Thanks.

-Keith

 

[SmithKelvin]

Hi,
If you are newbie in web designing, go through with http://www.w3schools.com/
It will definitely help.

 

[960design]

New to this community and I may be in the wrong area but throw some good web design books and links at me ( and redirect if possible ) . Im trying to learn how to build from scratch, embed, etc. Thanks.

-Keith

Welcome! Glad to have you. Web design is a multi-language / script environment. My best recommendation would be two books by Jon Duckett. Start with HTML & CSS for the website structure. Follow up with Javascript & JQuery to make your site come alive, although we can do a bunch of stuff with HTML5 and CSS3 now.

 

[olup]

Here are some links that I find very indispensible that have helped me a great deal. The bookapart book series provides a very good introduction to stuff and the books are fairly short(150 pages). O'Reilly books are a bit "techier" and more expensive, though the head first series is supposed to be rather "brain friendly", haven't ready any books from that series though.

resources
http://css-tricks.com

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

cutting edge/experimental stuff
http://tympanus.net/codrops/

http://codyhouse.co/library

Books:
http://abookapart.com
http://shop.oreilly.com/category/browse-subjects/web-development/html-css.do
http://shop.oreilly.com/category/series/head-first.do

Online courses(some are free)
https://www.udacity.com/courses/web-development
http://codeacademy.com

Articles:
http://alistapart.com
http://smashingmagazine.com