Resources

Articles

The following are articles written by me, Tim Reader (and coming soon!).

• Beginner’s Guide: what do I need to know to become a web designer?
• Understanding a Website Proposal
• Web Design Process: the 5 steps to create a killer website

External websites

HTML

• W3C HTML tutorial – for those needing a primer
• HTML dog

CSS

• CSS Zen Garden – beauty in css design
• CSS Elite (also known as CSS Gallery)
• CSS Edge – experiments for Eric Meyer
• CSS Play – experiments in CSS
• CSS Vault – inspiring creativity

JavaScript

• JQuery – new wave javascript
  
• Quirksmode
• Thickbox (based on JQuery)
  

Graphic Design

• Web Design from Scratch (the full gamut of web design in fact)
  

Accessibility

• Accessify – web accessibility tools and resources

Usability/Information Architecture

• Use it – from usability guru Jakob Nielson
• Advanced Common Sense – from Steve Krug author of “Don’t Make Me Think!”
• Usability First
• Boxes and Arrows

Copywriting

• Copyblogger

Marketing/Search Engines

• Words – the secret sauce

Blogs

• Mezzo Blue (CSS Zen Garden creator)
• Andy Budd
• 456 Berea Street

Books

I recommend anything by Sitepoint and their website is one to bookmark too.

Also Andy Budd’s CSS Dave Shea’s CSS Zen Garden books are worth reading.