# Book Recommendation for fast drop into webdesign **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 9, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/book-recommendation-for-fast-drop-into-webdesign/152917 "2008-11-09T20:04:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jeffrey-goines](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@jeffrey-goines](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffrey-goines)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/book-recommendation-for-fast-drop-into-webdesign/152917/1 "2008-11-09T20:04:09Z")
hello, I did some web design quite a while ago and now i have some time to get back into it but i want it as fast as possible and what i’m really lacking is some good resource how to restart. it’s like that i need the general html design patterns plus css in an accesible way. then i want to go dymanic with ruby on rails. i couldn’t find any book that is not mainly html for beginners or just a reference or creating some very particular design but one that talks about how various often encountered design solutions are usually done today. it maybe would be a lot on css but i don’t want to learn a lot of attributes, just the general principles and then maybe an editor which does display all propertys i can sensefully set (maybe i’ll use coda?). so thanks a lot for reading this and i hope to hear of some book or something online i can use to dive faster than just looking at various modern sites’ sourcecode. jeffrey ---
**Author:** ![jeffrey-goines](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@jeffrey-goines](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffrey-goines)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/book-recommendation-for-fast-drop-into-webdesign/152917/2 "2008-11-09T20:25:35Z")
Jeffrey Goines wrote: > i couldn’t find any book that is not mainly html for beginners or just a > reference or creating some very particular design but one that talks > about how various often encountered design solutions are usually done > today. it maybe would be a lot on css but i don’t want to learn a lot of > attributes, just the general principles and then maybe an editor which > does display all propertys i can sensefully set (maybe i’ll use coda?). It’s not HTML but I really enjoyed reading “Stylin’ with CSS: A Designer’s Guide” - I thought it was written in a very accessible manner and it helped me, a CSS-nobody to get a reasonably good idea of the basics so that my sites stopped looking ugly. Cheers, Mohit. 11/10/2008 | 3:24 AM. ---
**Author:** ![jeffrey-goines](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@jeffrey-goines](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffrey-goines)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/book-recommendation-for-fast-drop-into-webdesign/152917/3 "2008-11-10T23:14:52Z")
Mohit S. wrote: > It’s not HTML but I really enjoyed reading “Stylin’ with CSS: A > Designer’s Guide” - I thought it was written in a very accessible manner > and it helped me, a CSS-nobody to get a reasonably good idea of the > basics so that my sites stopped looking ugly. Mohit, thank you so much for telling me, I guess this book is very very close to what I was looking for!! It’s not available at my University but I’m reading it now on safaribooksonline (trial) and find that very convenient. ---
**Author:** ![jeffrey-goines](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@jeffrey-goines](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffrey-goines)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/book-recommendation-for-fast-drop-into-webdesign/152917/4 "2008-11-11T17:57:47Z")
Jeffrey Goines wrote: > It’s not available at my University but I’m reading it now on > safaribooksonline (trial) and find that very convenient. Glad to help! I’m more of an engineer and it brought me just enough knowledge 🙂 Cheers, Mohit. 11/12/2008 | 12:56 AM.