10 Free Online Books for Web Designers
There’s a never ending supply of information out there for us web designers. If there’s something we need to learn, we can find it in one form or another. Sometimes it may be on a blog or it could be in a book. While you may have to shell our some money for a good web design book, there are a number of them out that have online versions that are totally free. Here are 10 you should find very useful.
A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web
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.
Getting Real
Getting Real is the business, design, programming, and marketing philosophies of 37signals — a developer of web-based software used by over 1 million people and businesses in 70 countries.
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
In order to allay some of the myths surrounding typography on the web, is structured to step through the principles found in Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style, explaining how to accomplish each using techniques available in HTML and CSS.
jQuery Fundamentals
jQuery Fundamentals was written to help you understand the fundamentals of this JavaScript library and teach you how to complete basic tasks with jQuery.
Web Style Guide, 3rd Edition
Consistently praised as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide, now in its third edition, maintains an emphasis on fundamentals while bringing every chapter topic up-to-date.
Access by Design
Access by Design offers guidelines for universal usability, and the online version includes examples and links to related articles and tutorials.
Web Designer’s Success Guide
Web Designer’s Success Guide is the definitive guide to starting your own freelance Web design business. This book gives you step-by-step instructions on how to do things like transition from full-time to self-employment and how to price your services appropriately.
The Web 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.
Dive Into HTML 5
This book seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards.
http://www.uiaccess.com/accessucd/index.html
This book will help you understand and apply principles to make your products more accessible.
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53 comments
Ravikumar V.
July 26, 2010thanks for the books
Theo
July 26, 2010Awesome thanks !
Tony
July 26, 2010The jQuery Fundamentals link is incorrect.
raym
July 26, 2010try this link instead
http://jqfundamentals.com/book/
Dallas SEO Web Design
July 26, 2010Yup, looks like the jQuery Fundamentals link is dead.
Monika
July 26, 2010Good list thanks
naoXens
July 26, 2010Yeah !! Thanks !!
Share and like
July 26, 2010What are the best 3 to read?
Eko Setiawan
July 26, 2010Theser resources really useful for me, thanks for share
Greg Babula
July 26, 2010Great collection, thanks!
Ejaz
July 26, 2010Good post Henry, Please correct the jQuery Fundamentals link. i.e. “l” is extra in the link.
IceTheme
July 26, 2010They should be able to serve us!
Thanks!
Mohan
July 26, 2010Very informative
BlogyMate
July 26, 2010It is a nice collection
leaflette
July 26, 2010wow, thanks for sharing!!
Franco
July 26, 2010Great list, I´ll read them all, ASAP! Thanks!
Maxime De Greve
July 26, 2010Time to get an iPad and read this stuff in pdf to make my webdesign of http://www.smokingcow.com even better! I like the atmosphere of this one “Web Designer’s Success Guide” ! Nice list Henry!
Ivo Bosma
July 26, 2010The list includes a few interesting books, so I will have a look. Thanks!
Chris Dizon
July 26, 2010Thanks for the resource! Too bad they aren’t in PDF form, but I’ll take it.
Ryan
July 26, 2010Awesome college and resource
Scentsy
July 26, 2010It looks like I have my homework cut out for me.
Teylor Feliz
July 26, 2010Very good list!
Thanks for sharing.
AJ
July 26, 2010THANK YOU!!
Dano Manion
July 26, 2010Great Valuable Collection!
Robert Loomis
July 26, 2010Fantastic. Just what I needed.
Raelin
July 27, 2010Really important list of books. Thank you so much for the free downloads.
Warren Jerzyszek
July 27, 2010Hey, thanks for sharing this amazing freebie! This seems to be a nice list of useful resources for me which I am looking forward to getting stuck into. The HTML5 book looks interesting, before I start reading any would you suggest any you enjoyed reading? Thanks again for sharing this with us.
Ben Daly Mohamed
July 27, 2010Wow !! thanks for that collection
Exionyte
July 27, 2010Thanks for sharing these freebies!
Bruce
July 27, 2010I can’t seem to download “The Web Book”, their download link is stuffed, and yet it seems to always make it into all the “free ebook” articles! Doesn’t anyone check the resources out before publishing them in an article?
Zen Cart Shopping Cart Experts
July 27, 2010Love this list! Have downloaded a few of them for some light reading on my iPad!
Reidable
July 27, 2010Thanks for the list. I’ll read at least 1
TxRx
July 28, 2010Sweet, specially liking the HTML5 book
loggersc2
July 28, 2010Here is a link to the JQuery book in PDF – for those who don’t prefer to fumble through each page of html…. http://jqfundamentals.com/
Choose PDF link from this page.
DreamWave
July 28, 2010jquery book, I don’t see it as a necessary one.
Prefer to avoid it actually.
Chad
July 28, 2010Awesome… Thanks for putting this out there, some really great titles.
Patrick Dow
July 28, 2010This is great!
I have more time than money so I plan on doing all of my own web design. The only hitch is that I don’t know how to do web design, or html, or css. Is one or more of these books the place to start, or do you have other advice?
Igors
July 29, 2010Thanks a lot! Good stuff!
sawgrassshack10
July 31, 2010Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great one.
If you’re a designer, developer, or content producer, reading A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web will enrich your website design and plug the holes in your design knowledge.
Toby James Creative
August 1, 2010Good list – don’t forget about ‘Why Design?’ by AIGA: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/why-design
Nauman Akhtar
August 2, 2010Awesome collection, but I think Jquery is not a relevant post here.
man mohan
August 2, 2010Really very useful books. thanks for this nice article, buddy
Jen
August 10, 2010Awesome list of books.
Anything Graphic
August 23, 2010Saved to my favorites
Thank you so much!
Craig
August 26, 2010Great list thanks for the resource, amazon books here I come.
Lisa Thomason
September 9, 2010Wow! What a valuable collection. Thank you! LT
Amanda Smit
September 11, 2010Some really excellent titles!
Jeff Jones
September 14, 2010Really important list of books. Great compilation, Cheers!
Darshan Parihar
September 16, 2010Wowwwww!
Gud Job.
Jazza
September 20, 2010God pdf… I hate that it costs money to encode, therefor putting a price on purchasing what it encodes.
Thanks for the books though.
Jack
October 6, 2011Thanks for sharing, great list
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