One of the best resources that I have come across in terms of information that is practical and can be implemented in your project at all stages of the design process is the book entitled "Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that works". It has a great workflow that you can follow to different depths and it helps you keep the key considerations of the design process in focus.

Traditionally, designing for the web has taken most of it's principles from the design for print. However, with the web becoming increasingly rich with other types of media than just text, new design paradigms are coming into play. One of the strong influences is "experience design" which focuses on the user experience and considers the interaction with the user interface and the richness of the experience.

• From AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), this is version 1 of their journal GAIN. It has a very good introduction on the whole idea of experience design with concrete examples of interative websites.
• Nathan Shedroff's resource section on experience design. If you want to explore and read from the masters, this is THE site to go to. An excellent reference!

In this section, we will focus on resources relating to graphic design for the appeal of your webpages, information architecture which deals with how your web pages are connected to each other and user paths to the content and information design to arrange the elements of your webpages in a pleasing and functional fashion.