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12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books

12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books
There are a multitude of books (whether in digital format or print) that cover every possible aspect of web design, each one is unique and offers a personalized opportunity for the author to both educate, inspire, and guide the reader through there knowledge. In this post rather than offer all of my favorite web design books, I have listed 12 books that I have either downloaded and read (or at least scanned through), or I have bookmarked with the whole-hearted intention of eventually reading it (Ruby Best Practices), and the best thing of all? All of these books are completely FREE, in digital format anyway (PDF or HTML). I have not offered a critique of each book, as I feel that would not be fair on the author. If someone spends so much of their valuable time (in some cases months and months) and writes an entire book on web design, in my eyes they deserve only praise and appreciation. I hope you find these books useful. The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web (HTML)

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20 Useful Free PDF ebooks for Designers and Bloggers Over the years I have a saved a decent sized library of useful design and blogging related PDF ebooks, I love them. I have voraciously collected them, and all stored on my mobile for whenever the chance of quick read arises. In this post I would like to share my favorite 20 (freely available) ebooks with you. All of the below books are have been written to be read quickly, they are neither very long nor are they the definitive resource on their specific subject.

6 Books Every Programmer Should Own I’ve seen many lists about the best programming books and I am sure there are a lot of books that are specific to a programming knowledge or technology – that I have not included in my list. The books I have chosen are those that are meant to inspire, increase productivity and improve your programming design skills. Note: This list has no particular order. Code Complete 2 Steve McConnell The main focus of this book to help you improve your programming design skills.

9 More Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books A few months ago we published a popular article called 12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books, and the positive response we received from our readers was phenomenal. But, just as there is with most things, there is always room for improvement. With the help of readers and authors we have discovered another 9 free web design books we felt were worthy enough to bring to your attention, you will find these book below. Just as with the previous Free Web Design Book Article, I have not offered a critique of each book, as I feel that would not be fair on the author. If an author spends so much of there valuable time (in some cases months and months) and writes a detailed book on web design, in my eyes they deserve only praise and appreciation.

40+ Beautiful Contact Form Designs Contact form is one of the most essential component for a website or blog. The contact form should be easy to understand and use. A poor designed contact form will drive your customer away from making purchase. AJAX and Flash can be used to add interactive to your contact form. WordPress Cheatsheet: What You Need To Know In One Sheet Today, we are glad to provide free a WordPress Cheat Sheet for WordPress theme designers or developers. It's created by Paul Maloney a UK based web designer or developer exclusively for Onextrapixel's readers. He particularly enjoys using and working with WordPress and has a keen interest in typography. WordPress Cheat Sheet

104,000 Free eBooks: SEARCH OPTIONS (141,000+ eBooks, eTexts, On-Line Books, eDocuments) Why not just do a Google search instead of looking here? This is more direct, indexes collections specifically, and won't throw out red herrings. Memphis Univ School Library "...an astonishing number of electronic books...from an equally astonishing number of sources ... impressive. Very impressive..." 40 Freebies You Just Can't Miss! Every once in a while it happens that you run out of ideas. Happens with everyone, there is no need to worry. There are people like us who are here to provide you with inspirational stuff so that you stay loaded all the time. To see examples and works of other professional people is always a good source of inspiration and gets you going to be productive for the next step or the next project.

40 Practical Examples of Responsive Websites The world of technology has changed a lot over the past few years. Now we are heading towards the so called “post-PC era” — thanks to all the smartphones, tablets and netbooks. All these things have made the work of a web designer a lot tougher.

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