9 More Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books

July 13, 2010 - 32 Comments
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A few months ago we published a popular article called 12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books, and the positive response we received from our readers was phenomenal. But, just as there is with most things, there is always room for improvement.
With the help of readers and authors we have discovered another 9 free web design books we felt were worthy enough to bring to your attention, you will find these book below.

Just as with the previous Free Web Design Book Article, I have not offered a critique of each book, as I feel that would not be fair on the author. If an author spends so much of there valuable time (in some cases months and months) and writes a detailed book on web design, in my eyes they deserve only praise and appreciation. I hope you find these books useful.

Designing for the Web

Author: Mark Boulton.
About the Book: 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.
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Taking Your Talent to the Web

Author: Jeffrey Zeldman.
About the Book: This book was originally written in 2001 for print designers whose clients want websites, print art directors who’d like to move into full–time web and interaction design, homepage creators who are ready to turn pro, and professionals who seek to deepen their web skills and understanding.
The dot-com crash killed this book. Now it lives again. While browser references and modem speeds may reek of 2001, much of the advice about transitioning to the web still holds true.
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Dive Into HTML 5

Author: Mark Pilgrim.
About the Book: Dive Into HTML 5 is an ongoing book that seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. The final manuscript will be eventually published on paper by O’Reilly, under the Google Press imprint.
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jQuery Fundamentals

Author: Rebecca Murphey.
About the Book: The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the jQuery JavaScript library; when you're done with the book, you should be able to complete basic tasks using jQuery, and have a solid basis from which to continue your learning. This book was designed as material to be used in a classroom setting, but you may find it useful for individual study.
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Data Structures and Algorithms

Author: Granville Barnett and Luca Del Tongo.
About the Book: Put simply this book is the result of a series of emails sent back and forth between the two authors during the development of a library for the .NET framework of the same name. The conversation started of something like "Why don't we create a more aesthetically pleasing way to present our pseudocode?" After a few weeks this new presentation style had in fact grown into pseudocode listings with chunks of text describing how the data structure or algorithm in question works and various other things about it. At this point we thought, "What the
heck, let's make this thing into a book!"
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Design Your Imagination

Author: WebGuru India.
About the Book: Design Your Imagination is a one stop resource for the beginners and learners of website design. Though this e-book is mainly targeted for the beginners of website design, it might prove helpful for the experienced web designers as well. This free web design e-book is clearly divided into 28 chapters and in each chapter a specific topic is illustrated with ample examples. The language is as lucid as possible and proper care has been taken to keep intact the flow of writing.
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Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Author: Jonathan Stark.
About the Book: Device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and this book shows you how to create one product that can be used on several mobile operating systems. You'll find guidelines for using the free PhoneGap framework to converty our product into a native Android app. And you'll learn why releasing your product as a web app first helps you find, fix, and test bugs much faster than if you went straight to the Android Market with a product built with the official Android SDK.
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The Web Book

Author: Robert Schifreen.
About the Book: The Web Book contains all the information you need to create a Web site from scratch. It covers everything from registering a domain name and renting some hosting space, to creating your first HTML page, to building full online database applications with PHP and MySQL. It also tells you how to market and promote your site, and how to make money from it.
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Building Accessible Websites

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22 Comments › Leave yours

Nikunj
13 Jul, 2010
Thanks For sharing such a wonderful ebooks, will help me improving my skills
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Brian Jones
13 Jul, 2010
Thanks for another great collection!
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trendyTUTS
13 Jul, 2010
Nice books, and I think the most interesting to read it will be “Dive Into HTML 5″ :)
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inspirationfeed
13 Jul, 2010
Awesome resources!
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Alpharetta Georgia
13 Jul, 2010
a very nice post i really needs book on web design as i am doing web designing and now in my final semester i have to submit a project.
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Michael Tuck
13 Jul, 2010
Both this and the previous compilation are excellent resources. Some of the included books will be very useful for my tutorial site. Thanks for putting these together!
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Siku
13 Jul, 2010
Thanks for sharing. This is a very useful collection of web design books – even though some are not really available for download. Designers and developers can use these are reference as well. Thanks once again.
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peter
13 Jul, 2010
Great, this will come in handy, thanks for putting all these together.
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Permana Jayanta
13 Jul, 2010
I like something free like this. And it is also very useful. Especially, the Dive Into HTML 5. Keep posting free ebook like this.
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Arshad Cini
13 Jul, 2010
I checked a few of them and yes they are really useful
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Kaushik
13 Jul, 2010
I don’t have the time to read them all, but will still download them :)
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Conference Services
14 Jul, 2010
very attractive and interesting design are posted here i must select one from it for my own site.
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Joer
14 Jul, 2010
Thanks for these resources!
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satrya
14 Jul, 2010
Awesome list… but i can’t download book “Designing for the Web”
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Pixelbox Design
14 Jul, 2010
Excellent Article, Added to favs, keep up the good work.
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webdesignalba
15 Jul, 2010
Very nice post man ! Excellent article, thanks for putting all together ! Nice blog ! Success
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Web Design
16 Jul, 2010
great work i really like it keep doing this type of work thanks.
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Bruce
16 Jul, 2010
Any body else having problems downloading “The Web Book”? :(
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Shaan Nicol
18 Jul, 2010
Some really good free e-book resources here, I have a few from Sitepoint already, but these ones compliment them well :)
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Claudia Liersch
23 Jul, 2010
Nice collection for free!
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pouya saadeghi
24 Jul, 2010
Thanks :D
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symons cone crusher
22 Aug, 2010
Great, this will come in handy, thanks for putting all these together.
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