Today we are presenting the List of 10 Useful Free Ebooks for Web Designers, Developers or Bloggers. These books are available either as standalone download (in PDF format) or for reading online (as HTML format). Hope these books will make your designing and development experience better.
1. Dive Into Accessibility
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About the Book: This book is entitled "Dive Into Accessibility: 30 days to a more accessible web site", and it will answer questions like "Why should I make my web site more accessible?" and "How can I make my web site more accessible?" etc.
2. Eloquent JavaScript
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About the Book: Eloquent JavaScript is a digital book providing a comprehensive introduction (tutorial) to the JavaScript programming language. Apart from a bookful of text, it contains plenty of example programs, and an environment to try them out and play with them. Suitable for beginners.
3. Getting Real
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About the Book: Getting Real delivers better results because it forces you to deal with the actual problems you're trying to solve instead of your ideas about those problems. It forces you to deal with reality.
4. Search User Interfaces
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About the Book: This book outlines the human side of the information seeking process, and focuses on the aspects of this process that can best be supported by the user interface.
5. Web Designers Success Guide
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About the Book: Web Designer's Success Guide is the definitive guide to starting your own freelance Web design business.
6. Access by Design Online
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About the Book: We design Web sites so people can use them. People doesn't mean "some people" or "certain people." With universal usability, our goal is to design Web sites that accommodate the diversity of people and the Web browsing devices that they use.
7. Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
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About the Book: The Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines were developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to assist those involved in the creation of Web sites to base their decisions on the most current and best available evidence.
8. Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
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About the Book: The book explains established design principles and covers all aspects of web design—from planning to production to maintenance. The guide also shows how these principles apply in web design projects whose primary concerns are information design, interface design, and efficient search and navigation.
9. The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
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About the Book: For too long typographic style and its accompanying attention to detail have been overlooked by website designers, particularly in body copy. In years gone by this could have been put down to the technology, but now the web has caught up.
10. The Woork Handbook
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About the Book: The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design.
You are most welcome to suggest any additions to this list. You can use the comments box below to make any suggestions.