Just as great artists must understand their tools, great Web designers must understand the technology behind their art. In Visual Design for the Web, author Penny McIntire demonstrates to novice Web designers how to use their tools—including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—in conjunction with the principles of aesthetics and usability to become masters of their craft. Chapters on site analysis, navigation, layout, color, graphics, typography and forms start with the basics by teaching the terminology and techniques of Web structures, but continue on to demonstrate how to apply the rules of design to create great sites.
Now Available on O’reilly Safari. You realy shouldn’t use the word “modern” in your book title. I can imagine in two years you get comments saying “This book is very old” in Amazon. Every good web design book now has typography section. Navigation and page layout aren’t enough to cover the entire design.