Books like The principles of beautiful web design by Jason Beaird

Responsive Web Design shows how to craft web sites that adapt fluidly to mobiles, netbooks, tablets and large desktops, using CSS techniques like fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries to meet users’ needs across devices.

Get complete coverage of Web site design, including theories, techniques, and the latest technologies. Learn to design, build, and maintain a site and handle e-commerce and security. The author, Thomas Powell, developed the Web Design Certificate Program at the University of California, San Diego.

From the Publisher: The mechanics of Web design made easy for visual learners. An effective Web site combines good graphic design principles with a functional user interface. This colorful, step-by-step guide shows visual learners how to plan, develop, and publish a site, all with easy-to-follow lessons. Each task is illustrated with screen shots accompanied by numbered steps. You'll learn all the tools and techniques for creating great-looking Web sites that users will love. -- Good Web design incorporates basic graphic design principles as well as the techniques required to make a site easy to navigate and user-friendly -- Those who learn best when someone shows them how will quickly get up to speed with the full-color screen shots and step-by-step illustrations in this visual guide -- Covers planning a site, creating eye-popping content with popular Adobe tools, building in functionality with HTML and CSS, testing the site, taking it live, and keeping it up to date -- Companion Web site features code and design examples for experimentation -- If you find learning easier when someone shows you how to do something, you'll quickly learn to build Web sites with Teach Yourself VISUALLY Web Design.