My next book recommendation is The Principle of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird also published by Sitepoint. (http://www.principlesofbeautifulwebdesign.com/) You cant' go wrong with any of the Sitepoint books but I particularly like this one because it talks about five inportant aspects of web design: layout, color, texture, typography and imagery. It is very well written and a great help in understanding what makes a beautiful website.

Happy New Year!

A lot of people are probably glad 2009 is behind us and are looking forward to a better 2010. For this new year, people, myself included, are thinking about what they can do better this year. I recently read a blog about how to turn around a failing business: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/01/08/how-to-turn-around-a-failing-business/
and I think it offered a lot of good advice. One of the things that I need to work on this year is becoming more qualified and learning new skills. And one of the best ways to do that is to read more books. So for my next several posts, I am going to make book recommendations.
Here's my first recommendation. This book was a lot of help when I was first learning CSS.

HTML UTOPIA: DESIGNING WITHOUT TABLES USING CSS by Rachel Andrews and Dan Shafer