Further Reading

What follows is a list of some of my favorite books and articles pertaining to the various topics I discussed in this book. Some were cited, some weren’t, but they are all excellent and worthy of your time should you want to delve further into any or all of these topics (which I hope you will).

Understanding the Web

“A Dao of Web Design”
by John Allsopp, A List Apart
http://perma.cc/J88L-BANR

See also:
http://perma.cc/ZZQ9-J7WQ
http://perma.cc/7VS4-TZRC

“Continuum”
by Jeremy Keith
http://perma.cc/U4SA-HKXY

“Information Management:
A Proposal”
by Tim Berners-Lee, CERN
http://perma.cc/EQ4P-Q325

“Web! What is it good for?”
by Jeremy Keith
http://perma.cc/YPQ4-J8CL

“The Web’s Grain”
by Frank Chimero
http://perma.cc/CV85-B43B

User Experience

“Choosing Performance”
by Tim Kadlec
http://perma.cc/7RZV-DN45

Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited:
A Common Sense Approach to Web
Usability, 3rd Edition

by Steve Krug (New Riders, 2014)

Mobile First
by Luke Wroblewski, A Book
Apart, 2011

Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks
by Luke Wroblewski (Rosenfeld
Media, 2008)

Web Design Process

Designing with Web Standards,
3rd Edition

by Jeffrey Zeldman and Ethan
Marcotte (New Riders, 2009)

“Device Agnostic”
by Trent Walton
http://perma.cc/KJZ9-AFBL

Implementing Responsive Design
by Tim Kadlec (New Riders, 2012)

Responsible Responsive Design
by Scott Jehl (A Book Apart, 2014)

Responsive Design Workflow
by Stephen Hay (New Riders, 2013)

“Responsive Design is Not About
Screen Sizes Any More”
by Gorka Molero, Speckboy
http://perma.cc/B9MU-DFCL

Content

“Attack of the Zombie Copy”
by Erin Kissane, A List Apart
http://perma.cc/2RMB-FS2W

“Calling All Designers: Learn to
Write!”
by Derek Powazek, A List Apart
http://perma.cc/6DXB-T52G

Content Everywhere: Strategy and
Structure for Future-Ready Content

by Sara Wachter-Boettcher,
Rosenfeld Media, 2012

Content Strategy for Mobile
by Karen McGrane (A Book
Apart, 2012)

Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web
Content that Works

by Janice (Ginny) Redish (Morgan
Kaufmann, 2007)

Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with
Style and Purpose

by Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee
(New Riders, 2014)

“Reviving Anorexic Web Writing”
by Amber Simmons, A List Apart
http://perma.cc/7BQQ-GKUA

Semantics and HTML

HTML & CSS: Design and Build
Websites

by Jon Duckett (Wiley, 2011)

HTML5 for Web Designers
by Jeremy Keith (A Book Apart, 2010)

Introducing HTML5, 2nd Edition
by Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp
(New Riders, 2011)

“On HTML belts and ARIA braces
(The Default Implicit ARIA semantics
they didn’t want you to know about)”
by Steve Faulkner, HTML5 Doctor
http://perma.cc/5KFU-BM23

“Notes on Using ARIA in HTML”
by Steve Faulkner, et al., W3C
http://perma.cc/M76R-VU8L

“Responsive Images 101” (Series)
by Jason Grigsby, The Cloud Four Blog
http://perma.cc/ZT6F-RZQS

“Srcset and Sizes”
by Eric Portis
http://perma.cc/G2SE-TQE4

Web Standards Solutions: The Markup
and Style Handbook

by Dan Cederholm (Friends of
ED, 2009)

Visual Design and CSS

“Big, Stark & Chunky”
by Joe Clark, A List Apart
http://perma.cc/EH8N-EC8R

Bulletproof Web Design: Improving
flexibility and protecting against
worst-case scenarios with XHTML
and CSS, 2nd Edition

by Dan Cederholm
(New Riders, 2007)

“CSS Design: Going to Print”
by Eric Meyer, A List Apart
http://perma.cc/92RE-JUTG

“The Pitfalls of UI Kits and
Pattern Libraries”
by Tyler Sticka, The Cloud Four Blog
http://perma.cc/8EHG-YQ83

Responsive Web Design, 2nd Edition
by Ethan Marcotte (A Book
Apart, 2014)

Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive
Web Design

by Vitaly Friedman, et al., Smashing
Magazine
, 2015

Interaction and JavaScript

“Behavioral Separation”
by Jeremy Keith, A List Apart
http://perma.cc/MRC5-9HZV

DOM Scripting: Web Design with
JavaScript and the Document
Object Model

by Jeremy Keith and Jeffrey Sambells
(Friends of ED, 2010)

“The JavaScript Framework
Bandwagonism”
by Teylor Feliz, Admixweb
http://perma.cc/HK9J-WSD3

“JavaScript Triggers”
by Peter Paul Koch, A List Apart
http://perma.cc/3HLG-VG75

“js;dr = JavaScript Required;
Didn’t Read”
by Tantek Çelik
http://perma.cc/9BL8-J32K

“Web applications don’t follow
new rules”
by Christian Heilmann
http://perma.cc/5AQY-ZXJ3

Accessibility

“The Browser Accessibility Tree”
by Steve Faulkner, The Paciello
Group Blog
http://perma.cc/7JHY-SRDE

“High Accessibility Is Effective Search
Engine Optimization”
by Andy Hagans, A List Apart
http://perma.cc/2ZRA-LH96

Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility
Throughout Design

by Shawn Lawton Henry (Lulu, 2007)

A Web for Everyone: Designing
Accessible User Experiences

by Sarah Horton & Whitney
Quesenbery (Rosenfeld Media, 2014)

Testing and Analytics

“Browser Testing”
by Jeremy Keith
http://perma.cc/85CN-BK2N

“Analytics confirm the need for
adaptive web design and cross-
browser compatibility”
by Jason Samuels
http://perma.cc/K75N-PFXN

“Setting a Performance Budget”
by Tim Kadlec
http://perma.cc/C78T-ECHE