3 must read books for newbie web designers

 http://www.20thingsilearned.com
This is both a technology demostration and valuable education resource. The book makes excellent use of the new HTML5 technologies why teaching valuable lessons about the web, the internet and web browsers. 

http://html5dog.com

A series of tutorials that will walk you from beginner to advanced in the essential web technologies of HTML and CSS.

http://eloquentjavascript.net
I'll be honest and say that this is one that I haven't read yet, but it's on my reading list because the outline is really good. I think it will make teaching javascript a bit easier for me.








Once you've covered the basic technologies then you want to learn the processes associated with web management so head to:

 http://webstyleguide.com/


After that you'll want to learn a bit about content management systems and web languages. I have a preference for Plone and Python.

Background on these web books

Some one recently asked me about learning Web Development. In answering them I came up with what I consider an very good web learning roadmap.

Instead of Education

Not sure why I didn't discover this book earlier in life. I stumbled upon it very unintentionally.

While "browsing" some courses in the MIT opencourseware catalog and discovered a course called "how to learn almost anything" (why didn't they offer courses like that when I went to university?). On the reading list for the course was stuff by Holt, following the link eventually got me to the title, which I love "Instead of Education ...". So this is definitely on my reading list along with John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us Down.