There's plenty of free advice and tuition out there for web designers. Get your teeth into these great free resources.
Looking for a little expertise in HTML5, coding or going it alone? Well, to need to get bogged down in hefty hardbacks - there’s a huge range of digestible ebooks for you to get your teeth into. And most importantly, many of them are free. Here we list of 10 of the best.
01. Learning Web Design
A beginner's guide to web design, this free ebook from Jennifer Niederst Robbins starts with the very basics of how web pages work, and goes on to take you through to CSS layouts and optimised graphic files.
02. HTML5 Quick Learning Guide
Rather than trail through heavy texts on HTML5, this Quick Learning Guide provides a round up of everything you need to know in no time. The guide covers the main elements of HTML5 and focuses on the basics to help get you started, quickly.
03. How To Be Creative
Advertising executive and creative Hugh MacLeod provides 26 ‘tried-and-true tips’ to help guide your creative self through the business world. Famous for drawing cartoons on the back of business cards, each of his tips is brilliantly presented by a cartoon drawing with advice ranging from ‘ignore everybody’, ‘put the hours in’ and ‘keep your day job’.
04. Web Designer’s Success Guide
A designer’s ebook staple, Keven Airgid’s 'Web Designer’s Success Guide' is a comprehensive narrative on how to set up as a freelancer, and profit. Covering topics such as making the transition to self-employment, marketing your design skills and knowing what to charge, this ebook has all the answers you’re looking for when choosing to go it alone.
05. The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
With praise from well-known typographer Herman Zapf, who calls Robert Bringhurst’s book "a must for everybody in the graphic arts", 'The Elements of Typographic Style' is a one-stop shop. It's worth checking out the print version as it includes the he foundations, philosophy and approach to good typography in any medium, which aren’t included in the ebook.
06. Design Your Imagination
Another for the rookie, 'Design Your Imagination' is a complete beginner’s guide to web design, although it includes great tips for old-timers, too. The book uses examples to guide the reader through its 28 chapters, ranging from the history of web design, to design principles, planning and so much more.
07. The Nature of Coding
A professor of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, Daniel Shiffman’s ebook focuses on the programming strategies and techniques behind computer simulations of natural systems. However, bear in mind that 'The Nature of Code' is not one for beginners, and you’re likely to need a background in coding to understand it completely.
08. Web Design and Mobile Trends for 2013
A compilation of interviews with notable industry figures such as Jeffrey Zeldman (A List Apart), Karen McGrane, and Aarron Walter, and agencies like B-Reel, Unit9 and Ultranoir, this ebook outlines predictions for the future of web technologies and design for different devices. Also available to download and read on your iPad, Kindle and a wide range of devices and ereaders.
09. 50 Ways to Please Your Customers
Following mobile’s phenomenal growth in 2012, this ebook provides tips on how to build amazing websites for mobile devices. It spans problems to consider when designing the user experience, 50 strategic approaches to create multi-screen designs and 50+ best practices to streamline your mobile design skills.
10. The Woork Handbook
The Woork Handbook is a collection of Antonio Lupetti’s blog posts, after receiving requests by some of his four million website visitors in 2008 for a printable version. Topics cover CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other aspects about web design.
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