designing with web standards - 2003 - jeffrey zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman is among the best-known web designers in the world. His personal site has welcomed more than 16 million visitors and is read daily by thousands in the web design and development industry. In 1998, Zeldman co-founded The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition of web designers and developers that helped end the Browser Wars by persuading Microsoft and Netscape to support the same technologies in their browsers. Buy now from Amazon.com

The Zen of CSS Design : Visual Enlightenment for the Web - 2005 - Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag
Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites. By using the Zen Garden sites as examples of how CSS design techniques and approaches can be applied to specific Web challenges, authors Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag provide an eye-opening look at the range of design methods made possible by CSS. Buy now from Amazon.com