Reddit reviews White Space is Not Your Enemy: A Beginner's Guide to Communicating Visually through Graphic, Web and Multimedia Design

Start by downloading scribus, gimp, and inkscape.

These will be your free design suite. Scribus is a layout application, like Adobe InDesign. Gimp is a photomanipulation application like Adobe Photoshop. Inkscape is a vector graphics application, like Adobe Illustrator.

None of these applications are as easy to use or as powerful as the Adobe suite, but several hundred dollars isn't "little to no cost," so you're going to have to make do. Plus, there's probably a ton for you to learn, anyway.

For the design side, try this book. It starts at the very beginning, and gives you some great beginner tools like the "works every time" (or WET) layout.

Don't make me think - The seminal book on web usability

The definitive guide to HTML5 - Great book to cement your current knowledge of HTML,CSS,and jscript while preparing you for more advanced concepts.

White space is not your enemy - I think this is the book every non designer should start with. It's the best introduction to the art of expressing through visual communication and introduces concepts that you'll start tweaking on your own as your repertoire and skill grows. It also introduces some valuable habits necessary of all designers.

Naturally these are just the books I would reccomend. I would also supplement them with up to date standards like Opera Web Standards Curriculm and active javascript practice that sites such as Codeacademy offer.

EDIT: Apparently, Opera's updated it's standard and donated them to W3

Mi-a placut mult Confessions, dar suna foarte bine Introvert Power, o sa citesc musai, am vazut ca a ajutat Confessions, dar omul cam tinde sa uite daca nu face un obicei din ce invata :)

Din pacate, ai dreptate ca e formatul limitat, trebuie cautat bine, cele care sunt disponibile in format kindle se vad si ok si n-au neaparata nevoie de culoare: Logo Design Love a fost excelent, o baza buna a fost White space is not your enemy, cu ceva greutate am citit pdf-ul The fundamentals of graphic design si acum citesc The creative process illustrated - desi, ce-i drept, e clar mai mult despre creativitate, dar la fel mi-a facut placere sa citesc Hey, Whipple, squeeze this.

Altceva de design cu imagini si explicatii, mai comprehensiv, clar nu merge pe kindle. Si daca ai recomandari pentru mine legate de design, pentru kindle or not, nici nu stii cat mi-ar placea sa ascult!