It is very important for a web designer to stay updated with the latest trends and tendencies, being able to reflect them in his work and projects. The progress is changing its forms, modifying them and developing all the time. Sometimes it is just impossible to notice all the innovations in the sphere of Web design without professional help, that is why it is so important to look through the materials proposed in the web design books - they offer the latest tendencies and techniques united in one informative resource that can be of a great help for your creative work. You will find out how to use tricks and tips in the most effective manner. Plenty of different articles cover only some points of design creation, while books thoroughly direct your attention to all the needed nuances. Being lost between thousands of book names and titles, you can be sure in the informative value of the web design books that I would like to propose you. All they are new and modern, they are devoted to various aspects of Web design creation and will be, lest there be no doubt, useful and suitable ones.
Photoshop
This book contains 12 tutorials on how to use Photoshop CS5, Flash CS5 and Dreamweaver CS5. It will teach you about simple web page creation in an easy for perception manner.
You are eager to learn more about Photoshop CS5? So, you have a perfect chance with this book to find out all the principles of its future usage. 100 professional tutorials are offered for your kind consideration.
To create a modern web page is not a difficult task any more and you will agree with this as soon as read this book. Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Pro level book - it will be able to meet any demands and requirements.
Mastering Photoshop for Web Design
This book proposes you 11 articles that will manage to cover different aspects of your work with Photoshop ( retouching, cloning, designing for iPhone etc.) and will surely increase your professional skills.
Pocketbook for Adobe Photoshop CS5
This book will help you to understand all the possibilities that could be reached by means of Photoshop CS5, proposing you easy for perception recommendations and advices.
Photoshop Tips, Tricks & Fixes
Step-by-step guides will discover for you a bright and unique world of Photoshop, being able to clarify the technique issues of the task you are going to fulfil.
UX Design Books
This book is aimed to show you the main principles of making your product and business mostly needed, being based on the modern tendencies of digital age and making the main idea clear thanks to the examples from real life.
A fresh approach to design and the principles of making your web site mostly attractive for the visitors are skilfully represented in this book that will show how to pay attention to your work.
If you are eager to learn more UX field, you should start with this book, it will explain you step-by-step how to implement UX principles to your work from the beginning to the end.
Typography Books
It is impossible to create a good web design without a proper usage of typography that is why it is so important to learn more about its possibilities and nuances and this book will help you.
This book will be of great interest for those, who create typefaces, word images and logos. It will manage to stress the importance of good typography - one of the most important parts of web design.
This book is created in order to increase the knowledge of typography, pointing its importance in web design and increasing understanding of letter forms and the ways of their successful usage.
Fonts can easily make our text more original and emphasise its main message. Fonts have become a usual part of our life and the very book will help you to learn more about their nature and history.
The Fundamentals of Typography (2nd ed.)
A new edition of a popular book, in which basic ideas of typography theory and usage are skillfully reflected by means of clear explanations, illustrations and examples.
It is a useful and interesting book that manages to describe typography in a simple for perception manner, making it interesting and clear for people with different typography knowledge base.
A useful and informative book that discovers the principles of web-based type, explains the typographic theory and practice directly to web design, HTML, and CSS use. You will also find here many exercises that will help you to realize the practical side of the issue.
Getting the Hang of Web Typography
This book covers necessary background on macro- and micro-typography and will easily teach you how to create a beautiful Web typography.
It is a guidance for those who want to learn more about typography and its practical meaning: fonts and their usage, space, words, paragraphs - all this is covered in the very book.
It is a new edition of a book by Jan Tschichold (initial publication - Berlin in 1928, first English - publication 1995) that includes a foreword by Rich Hendel and his thoughts about Jan Tschichold's life and work.
This book manages to discover the main idea of design and typography, making content able to reflect all its potential by means of a skillful usage and implementation of design rules.
Modular Grids Books
Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Proffecional recommendations for using all of the systems (8 to 32 fields).
This book will help you to make clear the rules of grid-based design, pointing to their right usage in practise or how they can be broken in order to get effective results.
Interface Design Books
This book will manage to explain you the main principles of interface creation by means of bright examples and clear advices, you will discover the most important aspects that should be in the center of your attention and those that must be avoided.
It is an updated edition that includes patterns for mobile apps and social media, full-color examples and reliable advices for a good application interface creation.
Yahoo! User Interface Library 2.x Cookbook
This book consists of a small components that can be used as individual recommendations without the necessity to read all the book cover-to-cover, except the first 3 chapters that are the basis for all the others. You will surely appreciate this useful set of practical recommendations.
You will learn how to make the best of usability testing and to improve your initial ideas, finding and fixing the problems.
An interesting guide for a creation of an attractive web design that will be memorable and original.
The second edition of one of the most popular books about web design. You will find here 3 new chapters and fresh vision of design that will influence your future work and creative urge.
CSS/HTML/jQuery/JavaScript
HTML5 is one of the most popular topics nowadays and this book is created specially in order to show you the way of adaptation to this language, discovering all its value on modern browsers.
Web Design with HTML and CSS Digital Classroom
This book will help you to learn more about multiple software tools and codes - such as Dreamweaver, Flash, Silverlight, Illustrator, Photoshop, HTML, and CSS. How to use them in the most successful manner for a perfect web site creation.
Dreamweaver CS5.5 Mobile and Web development with HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery
This book contains detailed instructions and recommendations about a wide range of HTML5 and CSS3 designs and page content in Dreamweaver creation.
Mastering CSS for Web Developers
Here you will find 15 hand-picked articles that will persuade you that mastering CSS is not so difficult as you have thought before.
This book is a an accessible to everyone, it doesn't matter if you are a hobbyist, student or a professional, you will like this colorful pages with simple examples and explanations.
A useful informative resource for Web designers, project managers and graphic designers that will increase the knowledge level and show how to create flexible and reliable web design.
A skillful description of JavaScript nature, that will turn JavaScript library user into a JavaScript developer.
Design for Mobile Books
An interesting and informative book that will explain how to create a design that meets the demands of users and will help you to learn more about design principles, fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries.
A useful multitude of data-driven strategies how to create a mobile-and improve your non-mobile design.
This book will explain you how to create effective user interfaces for all types of mobile devices. 76 best practices will be of a great value for your future work.
Here you will find out how to make your app outstanding and how to pay the attention to it. You will learn how to step over the basic rules and to increase your "wow" experience.
Designing a simple iPhone application or one that will work for every popular mobile OS, you will surely appreciate this book that contains 70 mobile app design patterns (10 separate categories) and 400 screenshots.
This book will explain you how to make a great Android apps even if you are an intermediate programmer, if you are an advanced one it will be useful for increasing your knowledge level clarifying lots of working nuances.
You will discover how to make your boldest projects real ones without destroying your initial ideas and ambitions and how to create web design without compromising the integrity of content.
Time Management
This book will help you to single out the most important things from the rest of the plans and to find time fro their realisation.
The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook
By means of this book you will find out how to make your working process more successful one without wasting your time for endless emails, phone calls, meetings, tweets and Facebook updates.
The 4 Disciplines of Execution
You will surely like the simple manner of this book that will help you to select your top goals and to realize them in a short period of time, without loosing their initial meaning and importance among thousands of other plans.
Our productivity is closely connected with our ability to have a rest and to open our minds for new information and creative decisions. This book will teach you how to get the best results, finding time both for work and rest.
You are proposed a new technique of time management that will help you to make your work more productive and in the same time less stressful, letting you enjoy your time.
Content Strategy Books
Web Content Management Systems (WCMS)
This book will help you to learn more about Web Content Management Systems and even if you have not a big knowledge base in web programming languages or markup languages, you will easily create and manage website content because of reliable recommendations that you will find here.
You are proposed best web marketing techniques to drive more traffic and make your business a more successful one. Learn more with this book and its practical pieces of advice.
This book will thoroughly explain you how to create the most needed and interested content in accordance with the modern tendencies.
How to Design and Write Web Pages Today
You will find out how to make your content needed and interesting for the intended audience, making the process of writing and designing for the Web mostly productive one thanks to the bright examples and good practical pieces of advice..
This book will point to the easiest way how to create and present the necessary information for the intended audience and to make it mostly needed and usable.
Seven key principles of inspiration and brilliant ideas are offered for your consideration, being added with their practical meaning and possible future usage.
Information Architecture for the Worl Wide Web
You will read here how to create a large-scale and maintainable web site that will be easy for usage and will represent plenty of information in a suitable and simple manner.
Besides, I also would like to offer you to read the following books that are worth of your attention and can become a huge inspiring resource for your future work. They are:
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
An outstanding book about the man who managed to change and to influence our present way of living. Jobs' professional and personal life are realistically reflected on these pages.
This book is devoted to the basic of graphic design and the role of color usage, pointing to its value and practical meaning and showing bright inspiring examples of works by top designers.
This book differs from others, because it pays your attention not to the usual aspects of site building, but to its main purpose - making money.















































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Hi, I am Kate Burton, I propose you to look through some interesting materials that may be useful for your creative work. I do hope you will find here fresh ideas for inspiration or necessary practical advices.

