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Win 5 Must Read Web Design Books

Today we have a very special giveaway for our precious readers – five of the best and most popular design books currently available. Just have a look at the line up of books we have, the books are: A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web, jQuery: Novice To Ninja, Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, Digging into WordPress and finally, Rocket Surgery.

Who wouldn’t want these on their bookshelf. Read further on in this post to find out how to enter and, hopefully, win these fantastic books.

Here is an overview of the books you can win:

A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web

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A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design. Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great one.

jQuery: Novice To Ninja

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jQuery: Novice to Ninja, from sitepoint.com, will show you how to unleash the amazing power of jQuery. In this easy-to-follow guide, you’ll master all the major tricks and techniques that jQuery offers—within hours.

jQuery has quickly become the JavaScript library of choice, and it’s easy to see why. This JavaScript framework dramatically improves how you add interactivity and animation to your website.

Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog

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Smashing WordPress shows you how to utilize the power of the WordPress platform, and provides a creative spark to help you build WordPress-powered sites that go beyond the obvious. You will learn the core concepts used to build just about anything in WordPress, resulting in fast deployments and greater design flexibility.

Inside, WordPress expert Thord Daniel Hedengren takes you beyond the blog and shows you how WordPress can serve as a CMS, a photo gallery, an e-commerce site, and more.

Digging into WordPress

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There is much to learn about the World’s most popular publishing platform. From your first steps of learning about WordPress all the way through maintaining a site throughout the years, this book is packed with truly practical information.

Rocket Surgery

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Rocket Surgery, written by Steve Krug, it’s a how-to book that explains exactly how to do your own web site usability testing.

How can you win these books?

To Enter the Competition:

The winners will be announced next week.

The Winner has been selected!

Thanks for your interest guys and congrats to the winner – @chadMuelle!

22 Comments

  • Husien Adel
    Mar 9, 2010
    Great Idea, I will do RT@ & Join your Answer Community :D
    Great Collections of e-books i need them really
  • Alessio
    Mar 9, 2010
    Hm, I don’t do twitter. Would Google Buzz suffice? I have 20 or so followers!

    Nice looking books, I would certainly like to see one on my bookshelf!

  • rjene
    Mar 9, 2010
    retweeting! *crosses fingers8 i love this. thanks!
  • Val
    Mar 9, 2010
    I want them all. Great books.
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  • sriganesh
    Mar 9, 2010
    Thanks for the giveaway, like to win ,and this will really help in design .
    RT and Joined and asked my real doubts realated to blog. :D
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  • hecbuma
    Mar 9, 2010
    retweet done!…
  • João
    Mar 9, 2010
    Retweet done :-)

    Good luck for all in this giveaway :-)

    Wanna “desinging for the web” plus the other four…Lol :-)

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  • Eli
    Mar 9, 2010
    Would be thrilled to win Designing for the Web, although my library is a little thin so I wouldn’t disregard any of these reads!
  • Neill
    Mar 9, 2010
    Just answered some questions on answers.designreviver.com , great site didnt know about it.
  • Oliver
    Mar 10, 2010
    I like reading books in old-fashioned way, so I wish to buy books about WordPress to catch all tricks about its customization. Thanks, I haven’t thought about this before.
  • Boni
    Mar 10, 2010
    Great List, i want all of them :)
  • Krusia
    Mar 11, 2010
    Great list! I didn’t know that Steve Krug has written new book!
  • Reader
    Mar 12, 2010
    Most of these books are bad, they are rewritten from older material, just read their Table of Contents and samples and see for yourself.

    These books are done to get publicity for the “author” not for the benefit of the reader.

    So sad.

  • Stacy
    Mar 22, 2010
    Has the lucky winner been announced yet? :-)
  • Chad
    Mar 23, 2010
    Thanks so much for this, I finally have won something…

    Thanks very much, probably right some reviews on this soon…

  • Robin
    Mar 26, 2010
    I was pretty late to this contest else i could also taken part in this giveaway. And is these books are ebook formats or printed copies..?
  • ImagingDesk
    Apr 5, 2010
    Nice. and here some WordPress books to get blogging power
    http://bit.ly/aIV8js
  • Beauchamp Web design
    Jun 14, 2010
    thanks for the list, definitely going to get a few of these

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