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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
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
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
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
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
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:
- Join Design Reviver Answers and ask or answer a question.
- Tweet this message: Win 5 must read web design books from @DesignReviver http://bit.ly/aFYQ1L RT to enter the giveaway!
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
Mar 9, 2010
Great Collections of e-books i need them really
Mar 9, 2010
Nice looking books, I would certainly like to see one on my bookshelf!
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RT and Joined and asked my real doubts realated to blog.
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Mar 9, 2010
Good luck for all in this giveaway
Wanna “desinging for the web” plus the other four…Lol
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Mar 12, 2010
These books are done to get publicity for the “author” not for the benefit of the reader.
So sad.
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Mar 23, 2010
Thanks very much, probably right some reviews on this soon…
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http://bit.ly/aIV8js
Jun 14, 2010
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