Web Design is really about usability. Understanding the specific psychology of the web user and how to program a site so that the web user’s experience is comfortable.

Jakob Nielsen is old-school and is the grandfather of web usability. His stuff is really good.

The “Web Pages That Suck” series is also really good. Learning good web design by understanding bad web design

Finally, a great ebook that covers web usability as well as the technical implementation of it (html, css, etc) from a big picture point of view is “Web Design Mastery”. It’s a collection of ebooks that is really put together well

http://designmyownwebsite.net/go/jakobnielsen_designing.html Jakob Nielsen’s first book Designing Web Usability

http://designmyownwebsite.net/go/webpagesthatsuck.html Web Pages That Suck (first book)

http://designmyownwebsite.net/2009/11/web-design-mastery-effective-web-site-design/ My review of Web Design Mastery

I’m also majoring in Web Design next year so maybe we could help each other out

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