You have a working Drupal 6 installation. You have some understanding of how to administer the site and add content. But, you would like to know how people do some interesting things with their Drupal sites that you can’t quite figure out. Maybe that’s adding images, or slide shows or photo galleries. Maybe that’s pulling [...]

Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)
by Jennifer Niederst Robbins (Author), Aaron Gustafson (Technical Editor)
O’Reilly Publishing, 2007
Learning Web Design by Jennifer Niederest Robbins is billed as “A Beginners Guide to (X)HTML, Style Sheets and Web Graphics.” It lives up to its billing. It is structured as a text [...]

If you tried the Ruby on Rails (RoR) bible, Agile Web Development with Rails, and found it a bit over your head, you should find this an kinder and gentler primer.Ruby on Rails for Dummies assumes absolutely no prior programming experience…. But if you have your hand coding chops but no real programming background you should find this book a gentle introduction to Ruby on Rails.It made a number of ideas clear that the Agile book assumed I was already familiar with. It provides a nice quick start to RadRails, a fee RoR development environment, which somewhat insulates you from the straight command line approach taken my more advanced RoR texts and provides a pre-packaged Ruby on Rails development environment.

Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS (Paperback)
by Dan Cederholm
I picked this book up at the WebVisions conference after attending a session of the same name that Dan Cederholm gave. My original intent was just to see Cederholm in action. He is one of the current [...]

Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML
When I got the review copy I was surprised at the size of the book. As this is a beginner’s text I expected it to be smaller. That’s not a complaint, just an observation. This is a meaty volume that covers how to write the code in web pages [...]

Web Design in a Nutshell, Third Edition
A Desktop Quick Reference
By Jennifer Niederst Robbins
Third Edition
ISBN: 0-596-00987-9
826 pages, $34.99 US, $48.99 CA, £24.99 UK

Designing with Web Standards
by Jeffery Zeldman
Zeldman is a man on a mission. His mission is Web Standards. As a guiding light in the Web Standards Project, he has long been figure of note in the web design world.
What are web standards? For a detailed answer, read the book. The short answer is they [...]