Posts in the Books category

• My five favourite web design and development books

  19 February 2012 by Clive Walker

  Recently, @MikeStreety wrote a blog post called My Favourite 5 Books, started a #bookstobuy hashtag on Twitter, and suggested that a few other folks could write blog posts with a similar theme. Here’s my contribution to that.

  I found it quite difficult choose only five from my bookshelf so I’ve chosen five books that I found easy to read. My concentration span for reading seems a lot less these days so if I find a book easy to read, that’s quite a compliment! Anyway, without further ado, here are my #bookstobuy book suggestions.

• Web design books for Christmas reading

  03 December 2010 by Clive Walker

  At this time of year, I normally pick out some web design books that I want to read over the Christmas holidays. I'm spoilt for choice this year.

• Introducing HTML5

  03 August 2010 by Clive Walker

  HTML5 is quite a hot topic at the moment and it's likely that you will be developing websites with this new version of HTML within a few years (if not sooner).

• Getting started with information architecture

  09 June 2010 by Clive Walker

  If you have developed websites for some time, you have probably organised the website navigation and content as sensibly as you can for your potential website visitors and to satisfy the website's objectives.

• Microformats Made Simple

  20 April 2010 by Clive Walker

  Microformats Made Simple aims to teach you about microformats, what they are, the benefits of usage, and how they can be used in your website (X)HTML. The book starts with an introduction that includes a description of the history of microformats and their design patterns. Subsequently, each of the main microformats, and several draft microformats, are explained in their own chapters. Each section describes the advantages of using the microformat, its properties and syntax, the mark-up you might use, and how the microformat is applied to several (X)HTML examples. The book is clearly written in a conversational tone and it’s ideal if you are new to microfomats or even if you have dabbled with them (like me). After reading the book, I feel that I am much better equipped to identify and publish microformatted data in my websites.

• jQuery: Novice to Ninja from Sitepoint

  11 March 2010 by Clive Walker

  I am reading a new jQuery book from Sitepoint at the moment. It's called jQuery: Novice to Ninja and it promises to take you from beginner to expert.

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• How to write better website copy

  12 November 2009 by Clive Walker

  Would you like your website to perform better? Do you want people to buy more of your product from it? or attract a higher number of sales leads?

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• New web standards books from Zeldman and Budd

  30 September 2009 by Clive Walker

  There are new editions of Designing with Web Standards by Jeffery Zeldman and CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by Andy Budd coming along in the next few months

• The CSS Anthology from Sitepoint

  25 August 2009 by Clive Walker

  The third edition of The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Trick and Hacks by Rachel Andrew is now available from Sitepoint.

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• Handcrafted CSS - a new book from that Bulletproof Web Design guy

  03 July 2009 by Clive Walker

  Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte is a new book [and DVD] due in August.

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