Books/Tutorials to help with web design?

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Books/Tutorials to help with web design?

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First off, I know and understand CSS, XHTML, and some JQuery. I'm not asking how to develop websites, I'm asking for any guides or tutorials to help increase my ability to come up with better looking sites. Currently all my sites are clones of those I find in CSS Mania. I wish to help develop my creative side, I have the understanding of the language but not the imagination for front-end design.[/url]
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I don't know of any tutorials that can give you creativity. :P

Drawing photoshopped web pages helps some people with design. Then they try to turn the image into an html/css representation.
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.
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Good design is often found in reducing things to their simplest factors, and re-working to make those things to be as elegant as possible. Less is more!

Try to identify what works about sites you feel work particularly well, and what doesn't about sites that fail. Hopefully you'll start to identify a pattern.
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don'T be afraid to look at other designs out there. sites like Open Source Web Design can help. I am of the opinion that designing good sites is a totally different skill to coding good sites. You may be good at one but not necessarily the other so take whatever help you can.
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