Reddit mentions of Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)

The article image reminds me of a book about web design I saw once. I think it was green and it had a pixelated photo of a guy with a hat looking up from either behind the title or from the bottom. Does anyone know which one I'm thinking of?

At first I thought it might have been Eric Meyer on CSS but the cover of that one looks nothing like it. Neither does More Eric Meyer on CSS. I thought it might be about web usability instead but the book I was thinking of then was Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen and that one has no images on the cover at all. I tried to google green book webdesign but none of them look like the one I had in mind :/

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Edit: Found it!

I searched for web design site:goodreads.com using Google and then I spotted it through http://www.goodreads.com/genres/web-design under "Popular Web Design Books". Designing With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman. No wonder the article image reminded me of the book, it's the same guy!

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Standards-Jeffrey-Zeldman/dp/0735712018 - First edition, red

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Standards-Jeffrey-Zeldman/dp/0321385551 - Second edition, green

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Standards-Jeffrey-Zeldman/dp/0321616952 - Third edition, blue

Hi!

No problem! I'm gonna hit you up with a few subs that might be helpful:

/r/personalfinance

/r/drupal

/r/web_design

/r/DesignJobs

/r/webdev

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/3ht54z/how_do_you_guys_get_jobsmake_money/

https://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/comments/37logm/best_drupal_job_boards/ (Oh! LinkedIn might be a good place to look and promote yourself! Don't skip that one!)

If you're serious about web dev, you may want to look into these too:

https://alistapart.com/

https://abookapart.com/

https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/books

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321616952/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 (Start with this book, swear to $DEITY! Read that one religiously!)

Get a domain name, cheap hosting and build your own tiny website. Could be a blog, could be a small portfolio. Anything goes. For the sake of anonymity, I won't post mine. But here are some examples:

https://ma.tt/ (Dude who leads WordPress)

http://www.zeldman.com/ (Yup, the one from the book)

https://studio.zeldman.com/ (Prime example of a cool, one page website to promote yourself. Beware though, this is a complex example. You can get away with far more simpler designs)

https://sindresorhus.com/ (Like this one. This dude is a JavaScript god. You wanna follow him on Github. Don't have a github.com account yet? Shame. On. You. Get one!)

http://www.webchick.net/ (This is a Drupal leader. You wouldn't tell from her site, but she's an important person in the Drupal community.)

https://github.com/iRaul/awesome-portfolios Yeah, okay why bother. Someone did an Awesome list. :-)

About that cheap hosting: Github Pages. Check it out. It's totally free. Get a domain name on HostGator or something. Shouldn't cost more then 15$ a year.

Just, get yourself an on line presence.

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best of luck!

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When I first started learning to write proper, semantic code I used this book: [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321616952/jeffreyzeldmanprA/](Designing With Web Standards)

It goes into great detail about why you should code certain ways for SEO and business needs. It also had lots of coding examples and use cases. It was a great single resource like you want.

I read the first edition so I'm not sure how much has changed.