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. 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. The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web (HTML) Author(s): Richard Rutter.
9 More Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books | Speckyboy Design Magazine
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. 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. Designing for the Web Author: Mark Boulton. About the Book: A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design. Designing for the Web →View the HTML Version → Taking Your Talent to the Web Author: Jeffrey Zeldman. Taking Your Talent to the Web →Download the PDF → Dive Into HTML 5 Author: Mark Pilgrim. About the Book: Dive Into HTML 5 is an ongoing book that seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. Dive Into HTML 5 →View the HTML Version →
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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
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.
The Ultimate WordPress Cheat Sheet
Messing around in WordPress is a pure knowledge thing. It really has nothing to do with skill since all you really have to do is learn what all the different tags do, mean and what their possibilities are. There is no other way to get to that information than to check the tags out and try them for yourself or read up about each one of them. It’s a mammoth job to know everything about WordPress, and I think few people do. It so happens that after the huge success of Techking‘s HTML 5 infographic, they set out on a mission to create one of the most complete (if not THE most complete) WordPress Cheat Sheets you can lay your hands on, and it is completely free. So if you’re a theme creator or a WordPress modifier and blog owner, you can step up your game with this ultimately useful sheet.
New WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts | TutZone (Build 20100722155716)
WordPress Keyboard shortcuts are a good option to save your time by allowing you to perform your actions quickly. These shortcuts make job of administration a lot easier and more user friendly. If you know more shortcuts other than which are listed below, please feel free to share. I’ve listed the shortcuts in two categories, one which works in HTML editor and other which work in Visual editor. These Keyboard Shortcuts will work on the HTML Editor: Blockquote: Alt+SHIFT+q Bold: Alt+SHIFT+b Code: Alt+SHIFT+c Insert date/time: Alt+SHIFT+s Insert IMG URL: ALT-SHIFT-m Italics: Alt+SHIFT+i Line Break: SHIFT+Enter Link: Alt+SHIFT+a List Item (li): Alt+SHIFT+l Ordered List (ol): Alt+SHIFT+o Publish the Post: Alt+SHIFT+p Read More: Alt+SHIFT+t Redo: CTRL+y Strikethrough: Alt+SHIFT+d Undo: CTRL+z Unordered List (ul): Alt+SHIFT+u These Keyboard Shortcuts will work on the Visual Editor: Address: CTRL+9 Advanced Editor (Kitchen Sink): Alt+SHIFT+z Align Center: Alt+SHIFT+c Align Left: Alt+SHIFT+l Edit HTML: Alt+SHIFT+e
How to Get More From WordPress With Multisite Blogs (Network Install)
WordPress is surely the most used CMS in the world. Here we will talk a little about it’s incredibly easy multisite install (a.k.a. Network install). So, let’s rock. What is Multisite? With Multisite install you can create (and remove!) It gives you a lot of power to build complex networks with a few clicks. For example, let’s say that as a really good freelancer you have a lot of good customers (I hope so! Advantages Share info You have some info that is easily shared between all blogs, so you don’t have to worry about: Common user data – Users who are added to your network will have subscriber access to all sites on your network. Separate some info As each blog has to be different from its sister blogs, you have some info that is still separated, like blog configurations, selected theme, and separate site administrators. Examples We have a lot of applications for it: How to activate multisite? How to use your new admin panel From here you can do almost anything you need. Useful snippets
