5 Useful Books For Web Designers And Developers
Web designing and
developing is an industry that constantly changes – new recourses appear,
users’ demands shift with the constantly developing world. Plenty of books are
published on this topic every season but due to shortage of time you cannot
read all of them. Below I’ve compiled a list of books worth reading, some of
them can be downloaded on FreeBooksBay – just search for web designers.
Adaptive
Web Design by Aaron Gustafson
This book is a must-have
for every successful and serious web designer. It consists of six chapters and
every chapter explains a new aspect of the term ‘progressive enhancement’. At
the beginning we learn what a progressive enhancement is and how it can be used
in website building. Then the book illustrates progressive enhancement in terms
of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Accessibility. Adaptive Web Design helps
understand how to apply progressive enhancement properly and the importance of
working for users not browsers.
Design
Is A Job by Mike Monteiro
Written by co-founder of Mule Design, Design is a job is a book that
illustrates all areas of designer work. It is full or true funny stories in
which Mike describes mistakes he made and what he learnt from them. That is why
the book is very easy to read and a real page turner. You will find here
information about working with clients and how to find them, how to present
your design andHTML earn money and much more. There’s advice for all categories
of designers that can be used in everyday work.
Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson
Content makes your
website unique and in this book you will find confirmation to the fact.
Kristina Halvorson’s book makes you understand the importance of the good content
and how valuable it is nowadays. People working with web development not always
realize that content adds to their success and helps to attract more users to
the website. Nowadays web is filled with cheap content and it often happens due
to the low budget or paying not enough attention to the fact. Content Strategy
will make you change your mind and prove the value of useful and usable
content.
Client
Centric Web Design by Paul Boag
In this book the author
uncovers the negative attitude of the web developers towards clients. Very
often designers see their clients as a barrier between them and users
neglecting the importance of fulfilling the clients’ requirements and needs.
The book teaches how to build good relationships with clients and to benefit
from such cooperation.
HTML5
& CSS3 For The Real World By Estelle Weyl, Louis Lazaris and Alexis
Goldstein
The new web technologies namely HTML5 & CSS3 are becoming more and more
popular. With their help you can create dynamic stylish websites that are
better optimized and easily built. The book is full of real-world advice and
useful information on new HTML5 and CSS3 resources for web designers and
developers. There are also many vivid examples, so you can learn a lot from
this book.
All these books provide
useful up-to-date information in simple language, easy to read and implement in
the everyday work. They are rather brief but contain so many facts and
true-life examples that you only gain from reading them.
Author Bio:
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