The best resources I’ve come across can be found here. The roots of my success.

First of all, check out Set Godin’s blog.

Seth is a great business man. You’ll receive periodic short words of wisdom if you subscribe to his blog.

The roots for achieving my first goal, the standards and design-process presentation, came in the form of many books

• CSS and Standards

  • Designing with Web Standards

    Jeffrey Zeldman

    Jeffrey is the God Father of web standards. Surprisingly entertaining!

  • Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design

    Andy Clarke

    A great book not just on CSS but also on web design in general, including grid-based design. Not for CSS beginners.

  • The Zen of CSS Design

    Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzsclag

    Discusses some designs from the website. Definitely a good read for beginners and old hands since the designs are so well done.

  • Beginning JavaScript with Dom Scripting and Ajax

    Christian Heilmann

    I’m only halfway through this one, but it’s good. JavaScript just isn’t my top priority. I’ll definitely will finish it though.

• User Experience Design

  • Designing the Obvious

    Robert Hoekman

  A short, insightful read. I’ll pass this around the office.

  • About Face 3.0

    Alan Cooper

    This one is long. I’m writing notes as I go through. Alan Cooper is the first name that comes to mind when I think of usability and this is the main book I’m relying on for an incredible usability portion of the presentation.

• Programming and Design Patterns

  • Head First: Object-Oriented Analysis & Design

  • Head First: Design Patterns