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Web Development/Professional Website Design Books

• Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond - A guide for beginners to the art of learning Web design. Includes tips on what to do and what not to do,
  
  
  with a tutorial on building usable Web sites that covers information design, interface design, and navigation systems. Also covers HTML basics, images, and the use of software to enhance Web pages

• Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference - This is the rare book for designers that is almost completely nonvisual. It doesn't show what's hip in navigational bars or what the coolest colors are. Rather, it gives readers the kind of know-how that can make a difference between someone who just whips up pretty pages with WYSIWYG applications like Dreamweaver and someone who can make those pages cross-platform, cross-browser, fast loading, and accessible to all.

• Web Design For Dummies - Reference and guide to creating high-quality Web sites, for those with little or no experience. Explains the software and other tools needed to get started. The CD-ROM offers trial software and sample graphics from the text.
  
  
• Web Design Garage - Learn how to construct cool and interactive Web sites with this hands-on guide to the world of Web design and usability. In this title from Prentice Hall PTR’s Garage Series, author Marc Campbell shows you the “ins and outs” of designing sites with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS as core technologies.

General Web Development/Professional Website Design Tips

• Register your own domain name. Prefer .COM to other extensions.
• Avoid Frames : You can't get good ranking in Serach Engines.
• A lots of Animated Graphics: Simply irritate visitors.
• custom web design / web development templates are freely available on many websites. Make use of them or you could use professional website design services available in market.
• Dead Links : Frustrate visitors.
• Test for cross-browser compatability.
• Avoid latest trends and technologies. Many users may not have it or avoid downloading plug-ins.
• KISS - Keep It Simple Sweet
• Promote, update and maintain the site.

Web Graphics Tips

• If possible use transparent GIF images
• Smaller graphics size for faster download.
• USe contrast - light and dark shades of the same color
• Use web safe colors and anti-aliasing for images
• Deifine 'width' and 'height' to declare image dimensions
• Use 'ALT' tag to describe images - used by search engines.