35 Free Ebooks for Every Web Developers – Books always hold great significance in our lives and in the world of internet, e-books hold the same importance. May it be a Web Developer or a Web Designer, every one needs a doze of knowledge every now and then to increase the knowledge. A person can master a skill only when his concepts are clear.
With the latest technology and advancement, the wide range of information and knowledge is available to you, and e-book is one of the best ways to grab the required knowledge.
Here, we are showcasing a collection of more than best Free e-books particularly for the designing fraternity. We hope you like this assortment and find it useful too.
1. Access by Design Online
This guide provides a universal approach to web usability.
2. Faster and More Secure Webfonts
Bram Pitoyo’s slide deck takes the top layer off font embedding and shows us how things work, and ultimately how to improve performance and make it more secure.
3. Using XHTML
This e-book is written by Molly Holzschlag and discusses what a web develop needs to know and how to use XHTML.
4. The Woork Handbook
The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design.
5. Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
If you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have what you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you’ll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for both the iPhone and iPod Touch.
6. Up to Speed on HTML 5 and CSS 3
This presentation lets you speed up speed up your HTML and CSS 3 skills by refreshing those aspects that can be applicable to web design and development.
7. The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
This is a practical and very helpful guide to web typography.
8. Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design
Here is a helpful guide that teaches you how to integrate accessibility throughout your web design. You will learn how to make your interfaces apprehensible, functional and understandable by a wide range of people.
9. Search User Interfaces
This book presents the state of the art of search interface design, based on both academic research and deployment in commercial systems.
10. HTML5 Quick Learning Guide
This guide introduces you to just the main elements of HTML5 that you’ll probably want to use right away. This guide is for those who want to get the basics figured out first, and worry about the finer details later on.
11. Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
Here is the 3rd edition of some basic design principles for creating web sites.
12. Best Practices for Developing a Web Site
The most challenging part of building a Web site is not so much the nuts and bolts of development; it’s the planning and conceptualization. Before any actual designing and development can take place, you need to define your Web site’s main purpose, what message you wish to convey, and how this message will be conveyed.
13. Dive Into Accessibility
This book answers two questions. The first question is “Why should I make my web site more accessible?” If you do not have a web site, this book is not for you. The second question is “How can I make my web site more accessible?” If you are not convinced by the first answer, you will not be interested in the second.
14. Web Style Guide
In this third edition of Web Style Guide, and the nineteenth year of the World Wide Web, we celebrate how far we’ve come and how much we can do to make the web accessible to and usable by everyone.
15. Eloquent JavaScript
Eloquent JavaScript is a book providing an introduction to the JavaScript programming language and programming in general.
16. Web Designers Success Guide
This one is a definitive guide for the designers to help them start their own freelance web design business.
17. Forty’s Pocket Guide to SEO
This e-book provides a quick reference for SEO terms and phrases.
This guide was prepared by a creative and popular blogger who has a flair for the creativity. In this book, he shared his 25 tried and tested tips on how to be creative. You are gonna love this manifesto!
19. Lateral Action
We all know that the key to creative success lies in freedom, time and money, and this is what this e-book deals in.
20. Ruby on Rails: Up and Running
This one is just like a lighting fast web development. Check it out.
21. Time Management for Creative People
Time management skills are crucial for the success no matter in what field you are into. This guide will let you learn how to maintain your creativity while managing other tasks and commitments effectively.
22. The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design
This is the most powerful manifesto in the list that teaches you how to make your work stands out from your peers and how to clearly translate vague and unclear wishes of your clients in to an appealing and solid design.
23. HTML5 WTF?
This guide is written by Simon Schoeters where he shared an overview of the changes introduced by HTML5.
24. Peachpit
A briefly Web Design Reference Guide.
25. CSS Cookbook
Read on to know the quick solutions to common CSS problems.
26. Head first HTML with CSS & XHTML
This e-book is designed to help you create standard web pages.
27. Flash 8: Projects for Learning Animation and Interactivity
Learn the animation and interactivity through this guide book.
28. Web design in a Nutshell
As the name suggests, this e-book brings all the standards of web design in a nutshell that includes CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0.
29. Essential JavaScript And jQuery Design Patterns
In this guide, you can learn the essential JavaScript as well as jQuery design patterns.
30. Type Classification eBook
Learn the basic 10 broad classifications of type through this e-book. This book is of great help to let you learn typography and its nuts and bolts.
31. Taking Your Talent to the Web
This is a free downloadable e-book that contains good tips to help you take your talent to the World Wide Web.
32. Design Your Imagination
This e-book is an ultimate guide for the beginners and learners of website design and serves as a one stop resource especially for the novices but can be equally helpful for the experienced designers.
33. 20 Things I learned about Browsers and the Web
Here, you will learn 20 things about web browsers and the web that you always wanted to know.
34. Learning PHP 5
This is an introduction to PHP5 – a must have guide for the beginner.
35. A Concise Guide to Archiving for Designers
This guide consists of 10 small chapters that provide designers an insight knowledge about how to store and describe their collections.
