Must read:

"Elements of Effective Web Design" at About.com http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa091998.htm Web Design - More than Meets the Eye at the Web Developer's Virtual Library http://www.stars.com/Authoring/Design/

Nice to read:

"The Foundations of Web Design" by Jeffrey Veen from Webmonkey http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/98/07/index0a.html?tw=design The Yale C/AIM Style Guide http://imc.iit.edu/internet.access/manual/

Resource Lists:

About.com > Internet/Online > Design > Web Design http://webdesign.about.com Ask Dr. Web http://www.zeldman.com/askdrweb/index.html An alternate and nearly all different Ask Dr. Web (same guy, though) http://www.zeldman.com/maqf.html Creating Killer Web Sites http://www.killersites.com/ Dmitry's Design Lab http://www.webreference.com/dlab/ Eternal Beta: A Resource for Web Authors http://www2.whidbey.net/jmwallin/ Infodesign: Presenting Information on the Web http://www.accessone.com/%7Ejdwest/infodesign/index.html The Sevloid Guide to Web Design http://www.sev.com.au/webzone/design.htm Suzanne and Carla's Mega Links List http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdres.htm Usableweb.com: Design http://usableweb.com/items/design.html WebWonk: Net Tips for Writers and Designers http://www.dsiegel.com/tips/ Web Page Design for Designers http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdhome.htm WebHome Improvement http://www.htmltips.com/ Writing for the Web http://itwebmaster.iit.edu/resources/webwriting.html Single-Pixel .GIFs A set of single-pixel .gifs to save and use (shown at 25X25 pixels so  you can see them well...): 000000.gif black 000099.gif dark blue 0000ff.gif blue 009900.gif dk green 009999.gif dark cyan 00ff00.gif green 00ffff.gif cyan transparent.gif transparent 990099.gif dark purple 999900.gif olive 999999.gif med grey cccccc.gif light grey ff0000.gif red ff00ff.gif purple ffff00.gif yellow ffffff.gif white To save these .gifs, just click on them with your right mouse button (in Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator) and select "Save image as" or "Save picture as" from the drop-down menu. To use them, just include them where desired in your project and ensure that you include HEIGHT and WIDTH tags in your document to set them to the desired size; see the code for the rules included in the table above for an example.