Who ever looks for a great CMS should not miss checking out ExpressionEngine! Some people may not pick up the way EE works straight away – but i promise, it is quite easy. You may have faith in my words but sure a book on EE would be better. Here it comes: Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6 – A clear, conscise, and practical guide to creating a professional ExpressionEngine website was written by

The one accessbility book to rule them all (so far).

Friends of Ed is known for producing fantastic books for Web professionals, but this book, written by eleven of the industry’s leading heads on the topic of accessibility is a complete certification process in 648 pages.

No, you don’t really get a certificate or anything, but you will be up to speed on every important accessibiity issue and then some if you read this book…

Any aspiring Web designer who has ever sought a book on Photoshop has certainly stumbled upon one of the many comprehensive editions of 800+ pages that exist; but let’s be honest, who has ever tried consuming such a volume and not be overwhelmed, confused or frustrated?

A fresh exception is the recently published The Photoshop Anthology by Corrie Haffly; it’s a mere 272 pages, yet filled with helpful tutorials for the beginning Web designer. Corrie aims for quick success and she doesn’t let you down. Her book is …

Over the last 36 months I have been growing my skills as a web designer and HTML and CSS coder. I’ve been reading all that I could get my hands on, but over the last few months in particular I began to see a deficiency in a part of my work. The deficiency became clearer as I learned more about “interaction design patterns”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_design_pattern and their use in interface design.

It was time to do the necessary reading to find out more about these patterns and how the best User Interface (hereafter referred to as UI) designers implemented them for the success of their application or website. It was with this felt need that I picked up Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design ...

Recently while travelling through the UK I picked up .net magazine, which I’d been hearing about and seeing some of.

I rarely end up actually reading all the way through magazines. It always seems like there are only one or two articles within that actually have any value. .net on the other hand has undergone some surgery as mentioned in Andy Budd’s article above (He happens to also be on the magazine’s advisory panel along with other well known web specialists like Molly Holzschlag, and Andy Clarke among others). And the surgery was worth it. Whatever you may have thought

I have bought or reviewed many books about CSS, and recently even a couple of original works in French, but few have been as progressive and relevant from front cover to back as Any Budd’s CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions published by Friends Of Ed.

Before this book it was only Eric Meyer’s Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide (O’Reilly) and Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards (New Riders) that made a significant …

In February of this year, a small army of rather influencial people in the world of Web design got together under the leadership of Phil Sherry and wrote a book called Blog Design Solutions.

At its core, the book takes the approach of looking at several leading Web publishing systems on the free market, and allots a single chapter to each system.

Chapter 6 of this book, written by the imfamous straight-talker, John Oxton, is devoted to Textpattern, and John does a rather good job. What is surprising is…

Update
Read some more on the book and see some scanns.

It´s quite exciting to see that a team of talented designers just published a book about blogdesign. Not having had an insight view yet, Simon Collisons screenshots look delicate.

Drew McLellan was ment to write about TXP. Unfortunately he …