web design

sup /prog/

I'm getting back into web design after a few years out of the game (tables....tables everywhere)

what's some good reading material for best practices and conventions? seems like all the stuff online is either old or just patently wrong (w3schools)

I've been focusing on code-centric design, as opposed to PSD-centric, but should I be doing PSD?

OP here again, adding to my last q, all of the websites in my city are shit-terrible tier pre-web0.1 garbage, and I think there's a ripe field here for web-design

I'd like to attract business with HTML5/CSS3 versions of their sites, would it be worth my time to write up a version, PDF it, and send it to them or is that not how things are done?

I know for a fact that the company's offering web-design services in the area are using shit like table navigation, because my old web-design professor would brag about all the company's he's worked for, and then proceed to tell us to use tables for everything

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javascript
http://eloquentjavascript.net/

sql
http://sql.learncodethehardway.org/

ruby
"Eloquent Ruby' or "The Well Grounded Rubyist"

cant recommend anything for php or html/css