Webdesign

[bartholomew]

I would like to be a webdesigner. could someone reccomend what books I should borrow?

I read about html and css.

[OBonio]

XHTML and CSS is the future (been saying that for 3 years now..). Plenty of tutorials on the web. Like here :
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/
Not sure what books to recommend, but there are plenty of them too! The Wrox publishing range are good from experience though. Maybe this : http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764583 069.html
Good luck!

[stevie21]

Everything you will ever need to know is online, although in some cases you're more likely to try to sit and learn if you've paid out some cash for a book.

Remember that a book can go out of date (instructing you to use "font" tags) whereas the internet is constantly updated.

If you can afford it (or borrow, as you say), the Deitel et al book is great. First class.
http://tinyurl.com/74jpd

[fo3nix]

OK first, differentiate web developer and web designer.

a developer typically does the coding, html, css, js, backend... etc.

a designer typically designs the site, and leaves the coding to the developer. its quite rare to find a single person who is very good at both. decide what appeals to you most, and go with that option.

obonio: "xhtml and css is the future". hmm well both are already here, although xhtml is widely misused. html should still be used for 99% of the cases that xhtml is being used for currently.

Books that you should at least know of:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073571410X/ref=no sim/stopdesign-20
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735713286/ref=no sim/stopdesign-20
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735712069/ref=no sim/stopdesign-20
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735712018/ref=no sim/stopdesign-20
especially the last one.

another source of absolutely invaluable information, more so than any book, are blogs on the web. if you're really serious about it, start reading around the blogs in some of the web-dev circles. you'll learn a lot.

side note: for more technical books on languages like javascript etc., o'reilly books are the best you can buy.