Designing Interfaces: Patterns of Effective Interaction Design
By: Jenifer Tidwell
Designing Interfaces captures those best practices as design patterns -- solutions to common design problems, tailored to the situation at hand. Each pattern contains practical advice that you can put to use immediately, plus a variety of examples illustrated in full color. You'll get recommendations, design alternatives, and warnings on when not to use them.

Designing Web Usability
By: Jakob Nielson
Creating Web sites is easy. Creating sites that truly meet the needs and expectations of the wide range of online users is quite another story. In Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, renowned Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen shares his insightful thoughts on the subject. Packed with annotated examples of actual Web sites, this book sets out many of the design precepts all Web developers should follow.

Don't Make Me Think : A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
By: Steve Krug
Yesterday's Web looked far different from today's Web, and tomorrow's Web will look more different still. Amidst all of this change, however, one aspect of Web use remains the same: The sites that offer the best, easiest, most intuitive experience are the ones people visit again and again. To ensure that your sites provide that experience, you need this essential guide from usability guru Steve Krug that distills his years of on-the-job experience into a practical primer on the do's and don'ts of good Web design.

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
By: Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
Today's web sites have moved far beyond "brochureware." They are larger and more complex, have great strategic value to their sponsors, and their users are busier and less forgiving. Designers, information architects, and web site managers are required to juggle vast amounts of information, frequent changes, new technologies, and sometimes even multiple objectives, making some web sites look like a fast-growing but poorly planned city-roads everywhere, but impossible to navigate. Well-planned information architecture has never been as essential as it is now. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition, shows you how to blend aesthetics and mechanics for distinctive, cohesive web sites that work.

Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works
By: Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler
This book is a high-level, phased approach to web design. The context is the development team's workflow, and all of the key tasks, deliverables and roles that need to be choreographed to successfully develop, implement and maintain a web site.

The Zen of CSS Design : Visual Enlightenment for the Web
By: Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag
Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites.

HOW Magazine
HOW magazine delivers all the hands-on advice you need for design success. Each issue is packed with the latest graphic-design tools, techniques and resources. You'll get timely tips and reliable information you can use to deal with everyday technology and creativity crises. Plus, you'll see how other designers manage their studios and their careers.

Practical Web Design Magazine
Practical Web Design is the UK’s best magazine for web-building guidance and advice, covering the likes of HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop.

Every issue features tutorials written by professional web developers and designers, plus bonus features and resource material, all aimed at helping you improve your web skills, whatever your current level of expertise.

.NET
net delivers cutting edge practical advice on the full range of topics essential for today’s web builders: design, development, sales, marketing, usability and accessibility, information architecture, security, copywriting, advertising and more. It is read by people who are serious about the commercial application of the internet.