Huge Books Giveaway: Comment and Win!
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We are giving away 14 Web design-related books to the Noupe Community. The winners will be selected randomly among all commenters to this post. The winners will be announced this Friday, 23rd of October 2009 in this post.
To participate, just pick the number of the book you are interested in and answer the question “What do you want to read in future posts here at Noupe?” in the comments to this post. Thank you and good luck!
Please don’t forget to enter your valid e-mail so we can contact the winners of the books! Hopefully, the winners of the books will be able to widen their horizon in web development and create more effective, more user-friendly and more beautiful web designs. CLOSED
Update Oct/23 2009
We genuinely appreciate our community and respect our readers for reading us, and now we wanted to give something back. Over 1,161 readers participated in the giveaway. And the winners are:
MelissaMcClain
Book No. 1 – Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers – Martin Evening
Yannick Lefebvre
Book No. 2 – Learning jQuery – Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg
Chetan Sachdev
Book No. 3 – Designing the moment – Robert Hoekman, jr.
Andris
Book No. 4 – Store Front – James T. & Karla L. Murray
Kim Andersen
Book No. 5 – Bulletproof Web Design – Dan Cederholm
taloweb
Book No. 6 – WordPress 2.7 Cookbook – Jean-Baptiste Jung
Nathan R.
Book No. 7 – transcending CSS – Andy Clark
Ester
Book No. 8 – slide:ology – The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte
Uldis
Book No. 9 – Designing for the social web – Joshua Porter
shlomi asaf
Book No. 10 – The Non-Designer’s Design Book – Robin Williams
Anca G
Book No. 11 – Classroom in a book: Adobe Illustrator CS3
Nathalie van Heijningen
Book No. 12 – 1000 Graphic Elements – Wilson Harvey
José Vittone
Book No. 13 – Designing interfaces – Jennifer Tidwell
Virginia Moura
Book No. 14 – The Designer’s complete index – Jim Krause
Congratulations to the winners! All winners have already been contacted.
The Books You Can Win
1) Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers – Martin Evening – A professional image editor’s guide. 704 pages. Martin Evening’s Adobe Photoshop for Photographers titles have become classic reference sources for photographers at all skill levels. Whether you are an accomplished user or just starting out, the Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers book contains a wealth of practical advice, hints and tips to help you achieve professional-looking results.
2) Learning jQuery – Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg – Better Interaction Design and Web. 444 pages. Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques.
3) Designing the moment – Robert Hoekman, jr. – web interface design concepts in action. 256 pages. Have you ever wondered how the teams behind the most popular sites get so many people to sign up for their products and services? With so many great applications out there, how does someone choose one over another?
4) Store Front – James T. & Karla L. Murray – The disappearing face of New York. 224 pages. Expensive hardcover. A visual guide to New York City’s timeworn storefronts, a collection of powerful images that capture the neighborhood spirit, familiarity, comfort and warmth that these shops once embodied.
5) Bulletproof Web Design – Dan Cederholm – Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS. 280 pages. A book by Dan Cederholm, showing web designers how to inject flexibility into their designs. Bulletproof Web Design contains several guidelines to help prepare compelling designs for worst-case scenarios, increasing user control and readability for varying text sizes and amounts of content.
6) WordPress 2.7 Cookbook – Jean-Baptiste Jung – 100 simple but incredibly recipes to take control of your WordPress blog layout. About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay.
7) Andy Clark’s Transcending CSS : A manifesto to transcend the web of today. 384 pages. In this groundbreaking book, you’ll discover how to implement highly original designs through visual demonstrations of the creative possibilities using markup and CSS. You’ll learn to use a new design workflow, build prototypes that work well for designers and all team members, use grids effectively, visualize markup, and discover every phase of the transcendent design process, from working with the latest browsers to incorporating CSS3 to collaborating with team members effectively.
8) slide:ology - The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte. 294 pages. No matter where you are on the organizational ladder, the odds are high that you’ve delivered a high-stakes presentation to your peers, your boss, your customers, or the general public. Presentation software is one of the few tools that requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. But unlike verbal skills, effective visual expression is not easy, natural, or actively taught in schools or business training programs.
9) Designing for the social web - Joshua Porter – 192 pages. No matter what type of web site or application you’re building, social interaction among the people who use it will be key to its success. They will talk about it, invite their friends, complain, sing its high praises, and dissect it in countless ways. With the right design strategy you can use this social interaction to get people signing up, coming back regularly, and bringing others into the fold. With tons of examples from real-world interfaces and a touch of the underlying social psychology theory, Joshua Porter shows you how to design your next great social web application.
10) The Non-Designer’s Design Book – Robin Williams – Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice – 208 pages. This book is for the secretary laying out an office newsletter, the entrepreneur designing her own advertising, the student wanting a better-looking term paper, or the professional creating a lasting impression with a new client. As a book of general design principles, it doesn’t matter what computer one is using, or whether one is using a computer at all – the principles and terminology of good design remain the same.
11) Classroom in a book: Adobe Illustrator CS3 – The official training workbook form Adobe Systems. 368 pages. This thorough guide to Adobe Illustrator CS3 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of Adobe’s powerful vector drawing software. Using clear, step-by-step lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds upon the reader’s growing knowledge of the software, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce key concepts and skills.
12) 1000 Graphic Elements - Wilson Harvey - Details for distictive designs – 320 pages. Often, the small, delightful details make a piece shine, similar to the way unique buttons on a white shirt can give it an entirely new look. This book explores 1,000 of these embellishments available to graphic designers across all kinds of projects, from books to brochures, invitations to menus, CDs to annual reports. This book invites designers to literally shop for ideas. Content is organized by type; if you?re in the market for an unusual binding, turn to the bindings section to see a wide collection of fresh ideas.
13) Designing interfaces - Jennifer Tidwell - Patterns for effective interaction design. 352 pages. This book is an intermediate-level book about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language. It features real-live examples from desktop applications, web sites, web applications, mobile devices, and everything in between. This site contains excerpts from some of the book’s patterns. The book has more, of course — more introductory material, more patterns, and more examples. Naturally, I’d like you to buy it! But this material has been on the Web for a while, and I’d like to keep it here.
14) The Designer’s complete index - Jim Krause – 3 books in a box. The Designer’s Complete Index. It’s creative, powerful, inspiring and real – providing all the insight and problem-solving muscle a designer needs to produce the best work of their life. This super-cool boxed set contains all three of Jim Krause’s best-selling “Index” books, including Idea Index (graphic effects and typographic treatments), Layout Index (your secret weapon for effective, dynamic layouts) and Color Index (over 1100 color combinations with CMYK and RGB formulas). Each volume is packed with hundreds of stimulating ideas, creative solutions and practical instructions.
Good luck!
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Book 3 looks nice!
I’d like to read more about integrating Social Networks in your website.
#10 or #14 please, i still lack some design basics…
I’d love to own #14, Programming I know, time to learn some designing!
#10 or #14 please, and i’d like to read more about Design how-to’s, Wordpress, Jquery and Flash AS3 beginners tuts…
Book#3 Please.
I would like to read more about IA & UX.
For book #13 Designing interfaces !
More design best pratcices and trends !
#2 looks very useful.
I really would like to read more about design trends: what are the most popular sites doing, why are they doing it, and how are they doing it.
Book #13
I would like to read more about CSS3, photoshop and photography.
Thanks ;)
That’s a great collection! Since I can’t have them all … I would definitely love #14 or #1.
I’d like to read more about Illustrator as I just started to have fun with it.
#12
Love to see some more about photography and website designing. Maybe a combination of both would be great.
I would like to see more inspirational posts about design elements like header, call to action, footer, navigation and so on. And I like freebies. :)
Book #13 looks nice for me!
I would like to win 5) Bulletproof Web Design
and would like to see a tutorial describing how to design a site that gracefully degrades so that all functionality is available to all users and those with javascript enabled and/or use modern browsers get rewarded with better interactivity/experience.
After reading and viewing Noupe’s previous post “50 Brilliant Bird’s-Eye Photos”, I really don’t know if there’s anything more to see @ Noupe!
Astonishing!
I would love to be the lucky winner for book #7 “Transcending CSS”.
#9 is the most appealing to me.
I would definitely like to see video casts at Noupe, video tutorials, video interviews, etc.
Noupe has always been a place where I could find resources more on a useful context than on a “this seems to be an interesting reading” kind of way.
These are the two aspects I would try to incorporate at Noupe.
#1 – Would like to see more on photography + photoshop + photo retouching/ effects :)
Book # 3) Designing the moment. Although I like a couple of them, but I’d go with this one coz I’m into UX designing nowadays.
As for what I’d like to see more here, definitely more on AJAX/JavaScript and CSS.
#1 looks great! Would love to have this book.
nice books! really nice!
#14 would be fantastic!Would like to see more of the inner workings of the worlds top interactive and web agencies
Book #2 – jQuery FTW!
Book #9 – Designing For the Social Web – I’d like to fathom the mindset behind designs geared for social interaction online: in essence, it looks simple, but is not!
I’d like to see more articles that discuss ways in which we can write better and more complex JavaScripts – using namespaces and utilising the power of prototypal inheritance to create well-formed, modular scripts :)
#14 looks an amazing book, as I don’t get out much this would make a great read for me xx
Transcending CSS looks like a great book!
Book #13. I’ll love to read more articles about user experience and interface design.
A great collection of books for giveaway. I would love to win no. 8 or 14 would definitely be a great inspiration and learning tool. Keeping fingers crossed! :)
Books!
Would love book 9. I am an educator and could definitely use the training.
I would be interested in seeing some posts on design for college courses and creating a good front page interface.
#9 would be great to read.
I’d like to see more about integrating social networking into your site, and how to get the most new followers/fans from it.
i want one!
Book #2 for me, I know some javascript but it would be great to know how to actually apply it.
#2 #6 and #9 would interest me…
2
I would like to read about API implementation from services like Google and the social networking sites. How to best integrate, why you should, why you shouldn’t.
I am interested in reading tutorials that solve complex design problems using photoshop, illustrator, CSS, and javascript. If my entry is selected I would like to win book number 9 to further understand the design principles behind social media, helping enhance the efforts my organization is working to implement in that area.
I would love book 11.
I use Photoshop a lot but need to learn more about Illustrator..
Would love to see some posts about vector design, including some image.
:D
Great list of books. Would love to read most of these.
#5 would be great
I would like to read about Lightroom and RAW
Would love to read bulletproof web design. Also would love to see some articles focusing on the business side of web development.
I’d like to hear more about design, usability…
I have to choose only one … hmmm — i love 2, 5, 6, 9 and all the others … but now i decide hmm .
I whould love to get Book Nr 6 !!!
Smashing magazine made me come here. They even threatened to withhold my pre-ordered Smashing book if I didn’t. Now that I’m here, I want to buy all the books listed. Well maybe not the JQuery one…cheers
#6 WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
more tutorials on how to troubleshoot
#10
As a design impaired developer, I’m interested in tutorials and basic tips and techniques for improving my designs.
Lot of great books, but I really would like to read the Wordpress cookbook. I just complete a site for an artist made entirely with wordpress – it was my first experience – and I am really pleased with the result. The site is really easy to mantain and I read and used various recipes from Cat´s who code, Wp recipes and other blogs.
Thanks, Tiago.
I would like book #2 (Learning jQuery). As far as what I would like to read here at Noupe. As a professional ASP.NET developer I would like to see more ASP.NET articles. I do PHP for some of my side work, but my main job is as an ASP.NET developer. I would like to see how I could use ASP.NET MVC in future projects and perhaps integrate some of the CSS & JavaScript frameworks into ASP.NET applications to enhance them and make them better cross platform applications.
Book #7 is very interesting…
Write more about frameworks (CSS, JS…)
This is a great list of books that covers every angle. It Some on my list already and some new to me. I would like to read several of them. Especially 8,12,13,14,or 3.
I would love to have book #7.
Q – “What do you want to read in future posts here at Noupe?”
A – I would love to see articles that present information on how integrate UX design principles with good web design principles. I would also be interested in reading about UX design studies. It would be helpful to read about how they are conducted and the findings they uncover.
Thanks for the opportunity to win the book, and influence the type of content you present!
I would love to see posts about CSS3 and HTML5 techniques and tips.
I’d love to see more contest posts :)
‘Designing Interfaces’ (book 13) looks like an interesting read.
I’d like book #2 Learning jQuery
What do you want to read in future posts here at Noupe?
I like everything here is, so just keep on going the way you are doing now!
6) WordPress 2.7 Cookbook please! thanks for the give away
Would love the jquery book, I have been working on intranets forever and am now venturing into the wild so all the javascript I know is IE exclusive.
For me, book number 7 would be great to have, as i am currently enrolled in a CSS course part time, so this would def. help me.
For what I would like to see in future posts, maybe it would be cool to see a post/video of a “Day in the Life of” a random designer. Seeing what they do in a day to get inspiration, create amazing designs, interact and socialize with others etc etc. That would be pretty neat.
Book #3 (designing the moment)
I would like to see more posts about usability and accessibility, e.g. related standards for web design (including web design for mobile devices), tips for incorporating them into the design and build process if any etc.
More generally, if possible articles about the relationships between web design and user experience (e.g. factors promoting/hindering good user experience to keep in mind when making design decisions, tradeoffs etc.) would be very welcome.
#2, #5, #9 or 13
more usability and testing articles
ooohhhh…ohhhhh! how do i get one? any about design will be great!
thanks….
I’m always interested in finding out a little more about #13 Designing interfaces, its one of those things thats very rarely covered well and is incredibly subjective
#13.
I’d like to read something about unusual user interfaces.
Nice, I love it #12 and #14
#2 or #13 both books I could benefit from.
I am interested in #1.
As far as more content for your site, I’d like to see more on JQuery and logo design processes. Thanks!
#1 is a must! Coming from both a design and photography angle, I really enjoy the Photoshop tutorials. Keep ‘em coming – something to do with afvanced texture application would be excellent – whether it be for a commercial (design) setting or for photography.
#2 and I’d like more tutorials for JavaScript and AJAX
I haven’t really browsed this website until I saw a tweet about the books. I will definitely be back. There are so many good articles and posts here that I still have to read!
#5,7, or 9 please and thank you!
#6 WordPress Cookbook
Usage of 3D in Web design.
#14
more CSS please
#2 is the book for me. I would love to read more about Ajax and jQuery design and implementation.
#1 looks fantastic.
I would love to see more posts related to design concepts rather than technical details. The technical details are definitely important but every web design blog deals with the nitty gritty. I would love to see more conceptual offerings of insight. Like how to lay out a design or how to pre-map a system of programming code to solve a certain problem. Thanks!
#3 or #13
More inspiration material. Like webdesign trends, call to actions, slideshows etc. But also more information about interaction design.(usability)
#1
some more articles about photography
Gimme!
I’m good for either #3, #10, or #14. (Hell if we are allowed more… #8 and #9 look interesting too!) It’s too hard to choose! Ah!
In terms of what I’d like to see on Noupe, I would love to learn more about ways to take Wordpress to the extreme. To take it farther and farther from simply blogging and towards (and even further) than other CMS’s will go. Also, more things like how we can start using HTML 5 already and showing people how to do that… Maybe in depth uses of the actually-useful jQuery plugins that relate to Wordpress…
And I’m always interested in articles that stir up huge discussions…
I just realized I don’t even subscribe to your RSS! You just got one new subscriber.
Thanks!
Oh my god how did I forget! (Sorry its me again.. ^^ from up there.)
I would LOOOOVE to read any article that investigates UX… whether it be A – B testing or just general design guidelines, or ANYTHING!
User Experience articles are always gems.
That’s it!
I would take any/all of these books (minus The Designers Complete Index. I already have that one.) Interested in the jQuery, Designing Interfaces, and the Storefront one.
#3 or #14 would be great.. #4 would keep me interested for a long time too, they are all really great titles! I would love to read more about photography blogs and Social Photography.
Mmhmm those books are lookin’ fine.
#2 would be awesome to own.
I would like to see more html5 related articles :)
Book number 3 looks like a really interesting lecture for me. As the short description states, I think it’s a really great thing to discover what is the work and the idea beyond a product or a service…
#6 WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
I would like to read more about techniques of design like Illustrator or Photoshop. Thanks.
I’d like #14 and more on CSS.
#9
I would like to see more GIMP articles.
13) Designing interfaces
14) The Designer’s complete index
What do you want to read in future posts here at Noupe?
-ExpressionEngine articles
-OpenSource application
-CSS & Ajax articles are always welcome
Thanks
#2 “Learning JQuery”. I’m interested in reading more about JQuery & Ajax development. Thanks!
#1
I would love to see more articles on the web design using Photoshop :)
Book 7 is a great one.
I would like to see more on the following topics to Noupe
* Semantic Web
* HTML5
* CSS3
* Guidelines to better USABILITY using the above techniques.
I’d actually like a couple: Designing the moment or the Illustrator cs3! Either would be great!
I would love to have book #2 ( learning jquery) as i started learning and using in my projects
Book #13 plz
Articles about minimalistic designs would be nice ^^
Wow all this books are pretty awesome!I wish I could have any of this book.
Anyway, since were talking about books. I am looking forward reading some books and magazine review for designers and developers in order to what to buy for our needs.
I love the concept of transcending css in web design. I am looking to learn jquery. Like others, I would love to know more about creative ways to integrate social media sites into a cohesive web marketing plan.
#14 – I would like to read more things about designer collaboration and such
Book No13. I’d like to see more Photoshop to Dreamweaver tutorials and forum addresses for beginner/intermediate web designers. A few SQL tutorials would be good too, thanks.
#1 Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers
I would like to read about web design and development topics in terms of tutorials and tips. Moreover, I am also interested in collections of beautiful websites, fanstatic menus, web developement resources/tools, etc.
14.) The Designer’s complete index
I would like to see video streams for sure! A resource like this with a step by step video would be perfect!
#14 sounds like a winner to me (although I’ve read #3 Designing the Moment and it’s excellent).
I’d like to see more articles about converting from static, one editor sites to dynamic (Drupal or other CMS), multi-editor sites with an overseeing content editor.
Thanks!
#13 Designing interfaces is awsome!!
#14
look incredile
i am looking for more fine design article
Go for #13
I would like to read more about UX / UI and also information architecture.
Great work.
Thanks
#3, #7
more about usability, IA, and tips for design
#1, 3, 6, 13, & 14.
I’d love to see some posts on Usability/UX, Building out a full site in wordpress (not just designing a theme for a blog), and some great Illustrator tutorials. Hitting on some Microsoft technologies such as Silverlight, Sharepoint, or Asp.net would be pretty kool too.
I would like book #14
I would like to read about the self disciplines of being a strong visual artist.
woohoo!
#3
Oh my god how do I unsubscribe from comment replies?!
#5.
Would like to see some tutorials that differ from the standard, here’s your header, feature bar, conent area, sidebar and footer variety.
13 Sounds quite interesting… Obviously won’t complain if get them all ;)
#1 I like to read more about photography and designs.
Wow.. TQ for the giveaways…
I want this: 7) Andy Clark’s Transcending CSS
I want see more on css3 tips and tricks… make the web design easy with super beautiful interface design…
Thank you… Noupe..
#2, please! This couldn’t be more appropriate, I recently decided to dive into jQuery, and the more I read the more I love it (:
And I’d love to find out more about the tools, apps others in the Noupe Community use and recommend, I always make time for reviews.
Ohhh free gifts :D
#11 or #14
I would love to read articles about people who use the extra features within software to create special effect like making a layout in InDesign and then using the extra features within InDesign to make an interactive PDF. I have the software but never use these features and feel I could really sell my ideas further.
I won a prize in the last competition and never received anything so I can’t wait to see what will happen. :-)
#14
An article about creating an HTML newsletter or just an html emailer to promote your business or portfolio or creating an emailer in flash.
1,2,4,7,13, or 14. More tutorials, please.
I want the number 6!
Just thought of this one while browsing the post about File Management a “Bookmark Management” would be really really handy for me right now.
And as others said more guides and more power for sharing this to us!
I’d like book #3!
One thing I wouldn’t mind seeing more of on Noupe.com is posts about online advertising. Maybe one article could be ways that non-for-profit organizations use online advertising successfully?
I’d like #14 or #10.
I would love to see more articles about beautiful design in everyday objects (cars, kitchen appliances, payment-systems for public transport) – things that are designed well and provide the user with an awesome experience…
I* would love to eat/read book #13
*the interactive digital media student guy
Book #14 or #5
More on designing for Wordpress
I’d like book #14 or #3 :)
And i’d like to read more theoretical and educational posts.
I want this… 5) Bulletproof Web Design
I want to see ..resource about email sending with php, ajax, asp or asp.net. Formatting email with table and html markup. and inserting image or attachment when sending… or similar..
shortly i want all about mailing…
I want book #12 1000 Graphic Elements please. This book is a big help for me to be more creative and interesting Print Designer. I’ll wait for your email “fingers crossed”.
I would like to win book #4
i want to read more about web design and wordpress
book #2
becaus you can’t know enough about jquery
I’d like to read more about intergrating social networking.
I would like to win #9.
#3 or #5 would be perfect !
One of my favorite post in Noupe is “Ten Simple Rules for Choosing the Perfect CMS + Excellent Options”. I love the way the post is structure. I would love the read such articles for other subjects.
Thank you very much for your work !
Hi, I would like to win #14
Thank you for your work also!!!
I would LOVe to win number 3.
I like inspirational posts and tutorials, more of them would be fantastic!
I would like to win 4,5 and 7.
I’d like to read more about CMS.
Wow, some excellent titles that I hadn’t heard of all of them look interesting.
Hoping to win book #2.
In the future I would like to see information and tutorials related to HTML 5.
Im happy to participate… :-)
Hmm, what a great list of books. Numbers 3 and 7 seem particularly interesting (only because I already own a few of the other ones).
I would love to see more articles on design trends, and how those designs solve business problems.
Book #3
Maybe some posts about CMSs that have an specific focus like “real state”, “wiki” or something like that.
#5 more 1)simple Business web designs .. as an alternative to wordpress … enhancing simple designs with jquery and any other (frameworks(960)/ tools etc) to create a bag of customizable portfolio options.
CLOSED NOW! All winners have already been contacted (see above).
#12, just love it!
my goodness. i hope im not to late as a candidate for these books
WOW! I cannot believe it. It’s the first thing I ever won in my life. Thank you noupe very much for this gift and keep up the good work.
Book #14
Maybe some posts about entrepreneurship =D
#1
more jquery articles
did l miss this, l want one
So sad i miss this :(
1) Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers …. I’m a photography junkie !!!! :)
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#12 & #14– I love anything Rockport publishes. I’ve had my eye on those index books for quite sometime!
can not really pick, they all seem to be easy to be interested in!
hi, all the books are great and more helpful for readers.