20 Useful Free PDF ebooks for Designers and Bloggers | Speckyboy Design Magazine
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. Introduction to Good Usability by Peter Pixel This guide is especially handy if you haven’t done a lot of webdesign yet or if you are involved in webdesign but don’t do any of the real work. A lot of books have been written in the past but the threshold for reading them, especially if you have never built a site, is quite big, hence this short guide. Introduction to Good Usability →Download the PDF → Web Accessibility Checklist by Aaron Cannon Web Accessibility Checklist →Download the PDF → Better CSS Font Stacks by Nathan Ford
12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books | Speckyboy Design Magazine
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. The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web (HTML) Author(s): Richard Rutter. Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design (HTML) Author(s): Shawn Lawton Henry. Getting Real: The Book by 37signals (HTML) Author(s): 37Signals Team. Access by Design Online (HTML)
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Fresh Resources for Creative Designers #6
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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 WordPress is one of the very best content management systems available, it has won numerous awards, has a huge community and following with a number of high profile users. The Content Management System (CMS) has moved away from being a blogging CMS to being a pretty compete solution to nearly every niche you can imagine, with plugins such as Buddypress you can even build a social network on WordPress. So given its obvious success and attraction, designers and developers are getting up to speed with WordPress theme development, and producing themes for personal use, themes to sell and for their clients projects. Conclusion
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A lot of people keep asking about a good list of programming books. Hence, we are building this list to save your time and to spread the knowledge. Some of these books will definitely help us to evolve our coding skills and thought processes for developing better solutions. We will do our best to keep updating this list, hope you find this list useful, here we go. Meta-List Graphics Programming Language Agnostic: NerdDinner Walkthrough Assembly Language: Bash Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide See .NET below Django Djangobook.com Emacs The Emacs manual Thanks Emacser (October 17, 2010) Forth Git Haskell Dive Into HTML5 Java JavaScript Linux Advanced Linux Programming Lisp Lua Programming In Lua (for v5 but still largely relevant) Maven Mercurial NoSQL CouchDB: The Definitive Guide Objective-C The Objective-C Programming Language Parrot / Perl 6 Perl 6 (Work in progress) Perl PowerShell Mastering PowerShell Prolog PostgreSQL Practical PostgreSQL Python Learn REBOL Thanks Nick (October 19, 2010) Ruby Scala Scheme Smalltalk Subversion Vim
5 Google Chrome Extensions Every Web Designer Should Have
The first thought that crosses my mind when I discover a new web tool: “This is awesome! I can’t believe I didn’t know about this!” The second thought, laced with bitterness: “If only I had this for my last project.” If you’re a faithful Chrome user like myself, you’ve probably noticed the massive library of extensions offered in the Chrome Store. Some of these extensions are incredibly helpful, like an accurate font identifier (has your mind been blown yet?). The problem is, there are so many to look through, it’s pretty overwhelming—especially if you don’t know what you’re looking for. What follows is a list of 5 web design and development extensions I use on a daily basis. WhatFont Wouldn’t it be nice if you could roll over some text and instantly see the font in a tooltip? Eye Dropper Read more about Chrome Extensions For Web Designers at WebDesignBooth.
3 Best WordPress Cheat Sheets
Working with WordPress is almost like learning a new language. Not only do you need to learn some of the basic fundamentals of PHP, but you also need to learn what WordPress tags go where, and what they do. Since nobody has the time to do that these days, I thought it would be about time to break out my WordPress cheat sheet collection. This first WordPress cheat sheet comes from Ekin Ertac’s blog: It covers a lot of the basics for your template and theme creation tags, and can also be downloaded at blog.ekinertac.com. The WP Help Sheet is the next one I want to show you. Last, but not least, we have a cheat sheet for template tags to use in WordPress from DBS Interactive. Hope these three cheat sheets help out the next time you dive into WordPress template editing, and get a little lost.
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. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master Andrew Hunt and David Thomas This book focuses on the best practices of programming (i.e. what you should and should not do). Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware Andy Hunt From the author of The Pragmatic Programmer, this book takes one-step back from programming and focuses on your everyday thinking and problem solving skills. The Productive Programmer Neal Ford and David Bock Algorithms in a Nutshell George T Heineman, Gary Pollice and Stanley Selkow Thomas H.
