Web Style Guide

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The Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, Second Edition by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton is a fantastic book that all web designers should read. The full-text of the book is available online or a hard-copy can be purchased through your favourite book seller.

The online version is presented either chapter-by-chapter (good for printing) or in small sections that can easily be read on screen.

The book is divided into 8 chapters that cover most areas of designing and developing a website:

  1. Process
  2. Interface Design
  3. Site Design
  4. Page Design
  5. Typography
  6. Editorial Style
  7. Graphics
  8. Multimedia