CONGRATULATIONS TO A List Apart technical editors Aaron Gustafson and Ethan Marcotte, whose Adaptive Web Design and Responsive Web Design were ranked #1 and #2 in .net Magazine’s “Top 25 Books for Web Designers and Developers” of 2011.

Other top-ranked web design books include CSS3 for Web Designers by Dan Cederholm, Designing for the Digital Age by Kim Goodwin, and Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug.

Four of the top 25 were A Book Apart books: namely, Responsive Web Design, CSS3 for Web Designers, Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski, and The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane.

I contributed to the article but did not nominate any A Book Apart books.

Congratulations to these authors!

The top 25 books for web designers and developers | Feature | .net magazine.

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7 Responses to “.net Magazine’s Top 25 Web Design Books”

1. 
   Bill said on 14 November 2011 at 9:31 am:

   Congrats! That is great news. I have personally read both books, and bought them for my team.

   Great job everyone, keep up the great work, and I look forward to your follow up projects.

   Bill
   @billross

2. 
   Evan 'OldWorld' Skuthorpe said on 14 November 2011 at 10:02 am:

   Well done, and not even a little bit rigged ;)

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   Jeff Sebring said on 14 November 2011 at 10:54 am:

   Very well deserved. Thanks for putting it all together, and keep em coming.

4. 
   Ricky said on 14 November 2011 at 4:50 pm:

   After seeing that list, I wrote an email to my boss with the subject “Two books I’d like to order right now” and he put in a requisition form for them today (usually this takes several days or weeks). The two books are Mobile First and Responsive Web Design. Thanks Mr. Zeldman!

5. 
   Joe said on 15 November 2011 at 3:09 am:

   Congrats. I especially love the CSS3 for Web Designers book.

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   John said on 15 November 2011 at 9:39 am:

   That is one I still need to read.

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   Marcus Green said on 17 November 2011 at 4:56 am:

   This is a great list – i’ve read the top four and would definitely recommend them!

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