Filed under books, eBooks, Events, smashing magazine by Veerle Pieters
Around the end of October last year, Vitaly Friedman of Smashing Magazine asked me if I would be interested in contributing to the new Smashing Book #3. There were a few options as to how I could contribute to it. But since my days were already filled until Summer 2012, it was clear to me that I could only find time to design the cover.
After some doubting on my end (as I was slightly concerned about the timing), I decided to take on the project. This was just too good an opportunity, as the briefing basically said “Do your thing. We want your design”. It would have been foolish to refuse such a fun, creative challenge. In this post, I’d like to shed some light on the creative process behind the cover design and the rationale behind the cover design.
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March 9, 2012 at 4:35 pm Comments (0)
Filed under books, eBooks, Events by Smashing Editorial Team
Yes, the brand new Smashing Book #3 is coming. The printing press is warming up, the illustrations are finished, and the chapters are being proofread. This third book is the best printed book we’ve produced so far: it is a valuable, cutting-edge, high-quality printed book that any Web designer should have on their bookshelf.
This time, we’ve also prepared an extra book 3? that offers even more exclusive content. And unlike its predecessors, the new Smashing Book #3 has a theme: Redesign. It is a professional guide on how to redesign websites and it also introduces a whole new mindset for progressive Web design. In this ever-changing Web design industry, the book challenges you to think differently about your work and will change the way you design websites forever.
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February 15, 2012 at 2:46 pm Comments (0)
Filed under Business, Coding, eBooks by Jason Mark
Making an eBook is easy, regardless of your coding experience. This is good, because 99.9% of your time should be spent on writing and getting your book out there, rather than on technology. Any electronic book can be called an eBook, but because over 90% of all eBooks are read on Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iOS devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod) and the Barnes & Noble Nook, I’ll focus on the formats for those platforms: EPUB, Kindle and PDF.
The current version of EPUB is based on XHTML 1.1, which was officially proposed in 1999. That was the year when Internet Explorer 5.0 was released and grabbed over 50% of browser market share from Netscape Navigator. This is great because XHML is an open standard that many developers know; unfortunately, it’s very old.
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September 29, 2011 at 11:58 am Comments (0)
Filed under eBooks, Various, web developement by Rishabh
DIY Design and Branding Toolkit Smashing eBook: Web Typography Smashing eBook: Professional Web Design Vol. 2 Photoshop to HTML Smashing eBook: Professional Web Design Smashing eBook: Successful Freelancing Mobile Design for iPhone and iPad Smashing eBook: Mastering Photoshop Mastering Photoshop for Web Design, Vol. 2 Professional Workflow [...]
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September 24, 2011 at 12:55 pm Comments (0)
Filed under eBooks, Freebies, how to sell themes, successful theme selling, Wordpress Themes by Walter
Pretty much no matter where you live, the economy sucks right now, and many designers are finding it hard to get new clients. People just don’t want to spend money on a website, or a redesign of their current site, if they don’t have to. And even if they do decide to tackle a new [...]
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September 16, 2011 at 9:19 am Comments (0)
Filed under eBooks, Various, website by Rishabh
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August 24, 2011 at 12:55 pm Comments (0)
Filed under Contest, Contests, ebook, eBooks, Freebie, Giveaway, jeff finley by Walter
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Go Media’s Jeff Finley put together a great ebook containing all the info he gathered through the years for designers to dominate the apparel industry. The eBook is called Thread’s Not Dead and features contributions from the people behind Go Media, Emptees, Threadless, Design by Humans, Big Cartel, I Am the Trend, Jakprints, Glamour Kills [...]
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May 18, 2011 at 11:28 am Comments (0)
