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!
(sl)
Rodney Keeling, 19 October 2009
Book 3.
For the content, I just wish there would be more frequent updates.
For something more specific, some type of day-themed list of resources would be great. For example, Abduzeebo has Friday Fresh Free Fonts. For “promised weekly content”, something like that really hooks readers in and makes them come back.
For some reason, I just realized I started every sentence with “for”.
Mikael, 19 October 2009
9
I would like to see in-depth logo design articles.
Artem, 19 October 2009
No. 7: Transcending CSS by Andy Clark, please!
I would love to read more posts on CSS!
Gushiken, 19 October 2009
#14 :)
I would like to see more Tutorials about CSS3 and HTML5 and how they can be used right now.
taloweb, 19 October 2009
6) WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
I would like to learn something about semantic web and separation between design and data!
Thanks
Irene, 19 October 2009
I would like to read book #3 (Designing the moment)
It would be great if you could post more on usability issues and how users view and navigate through websites in our times.
Dave, 19 October 2009
I want to sign in for The Designer’s complete index.
What I want to read more on Noupe, is more tutorials (AJAX, JQUERY etc).
Regards,
Dave
CiSCO DC, 19 October 2009
The photoshop book looks like the shiz! I want!
Olga, 19 October 2009
1) Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers
I would like to see more tutorials.
Also, more css posts
Trosalba, 19 October 2009
I pick No. 1
I would like to see more tutorials on jquery
Pawel, 19 October 2009
I’d love to win #2 (Learning jQuery).
Guess what, I’d like to read more about jQuery on Noupe too :-)
Rj, 19 October 2009
#3. I would like to read more on anything about user interfaces! :)
Julian, 19 October 2009
1) Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers
I would like to read more about how to create wordpress themes and i would like to see free wordpress themes with a nice design.
Rob, 19 October 2009
I choose #1
Always interested in learning more jQuery
acbo, 19 October 2009
The Designer’s complete index nr. 14
I would like to see more inspiration posts about:
- Inspirational Photography
- Monthly collections of best design/inspirational websites
- Photoshop technique`s
Keep up the good work!
Boris, 19 October 2009
Book #2 please.
I would like to read more about jQuery. Some roundups of popular scripts written for jQuery would be great. Thanks!
David, 19 October 2009
Book #12
I’d love to read more about ajax and jquery
Ari Rizos, 19 October 2009
Book 13
A lot of us know how to code and can find plenty of solutions on the web. I would like to see how developers manage their time effectively, what systems do people use to be organised, plan their upcoming work etc. What works and doesn’t work for us out there!
Cheers,
Ari – Webology
disgenia, 19 October 2009
A number #3, please.
I’d like to read more about web interface, but you are doing a good work now. :-)
Mircea Gindulescu, 19 October 2009
#13
I would like more articles about user experience and user behavior.
klou, 19 October 2009
Hi, i would like 3) Designing the moment.
I’d like to read more about usability and design that leads to more sales.
Thanks.
Graham, 19 October 2009
#5
I’d like to see a site deployment checklist: all the things that it’s easy to forget when your new site’s going live (robots.txt, error reporting…ummm and all the other things that I can’t think of now (that’s why I need a checklist))
Ahmed, 19 October 2009
Very nice im in
stephanie, 19 October 2009
Book #2 Learning jQuery
Learning much more about jquery … i’d like that.
Ahmed, 19 October 2009
Sorry forgot
2) Learning jQuery
jquery articles
Lennert, 19 October 2009
As a student interactive communication, I prefer book
#9: Designing for the social web.
I like noupe for giving me information about the latest techniques of interactive design & it’s best practices, thank you.
Jan, 19 October 2009
13) Designing interfaces
I would like to see some post about information architecture. But you are doing already a hell of a job! And thanks for this nice giveaway!
Enrico Pellizzoni, 19 October 2009
7) Transcending CSS
Hi all, I am very interested in learning new suggestions on how to build impressive designs
Alex Flueras, 19 October 2009
Dear Noupe.com, I would like to take my chance on book no. 1 – Adobe Photoshop CS4 For Photographers. I am a New Media Designer and Photographer from Brasov, Romania and I am looking to improve my photography post edit skills. Thanks, Alex.
Artful Dodger, 19 October 2009
#9 Looks like a totally awesome book.
What I want to read in the future on noupe… hmmm… I think I’d like to see more giveaways like this =)
Katharina Hirsch, 19 October 2009
#1
Articles about CSS (3 especially) and HTML.
Marius Ilie, 19 October 2009
I’d like to read more about grunge/vintage/typografy layouts/designs.
And I’m interested in book #10 (The Non-Designer’s Design Book)
Giles, 19 October 2009
#2 please (though I would be happy with most of the others).
I’d like to read more articles on interface design, and implementing web-standards painlessly!
Juul Coolen, 20 October 2009
Number 4.
What I would like to read at Noupe? Anything in-depth related to web design really. Be it usability, design principles, fresh CSS tricks, typography. If the content is there, I’m in!
Bleyder, 20 October 2009
I choose book number 7.
I would like to read more programming development content. Tips about PHP, Javascript. How to use API, how to speed up a website. And protect them!
Brad, 20 October 2009
Hi! I’d like #2.
I’d also like to see more jQuery/Ajax tutorials and some examples of inspirational usage. Keep it up!
giker, 20 October 2009
No. 2 for me please ;)
I would like to read about jQuery tips & tricks.
Tim, 20 October 2009
Book #2
Like to read more about jQuery, CSS, Web-Typography and maybe a little bit TYPO3-stuff.
Please keep on that good work!!!
Otba Mushaweh, 20 October 2009
I’m interested in book #1 or #14
I would like to read more about interviews with designers and developers also more article about case studies
Sid, 20 October 2009
How about illustrations on creating cool movie posters like that in hollywood movies? They’d be a definite read for us..
Tommy Holiday, 20 October 2009
hope you’ll also send the book to switzerland based readers! ;)
3) “Designing the moment” i’ll very appreciate!
in future i would like to read more about design trends, css3 and html5! of course also some tuts about mootools or jquery.
thx for the great work!
Roland, 20 October 2009
7) Andy Clark’s Transcending CSS for me please :)
would like to be an expert in CSS
Joshua Withers, 20 October 2009
Please please please book 14 :D
I’d love to read more about innovative design principles, on and off line
cryothic, 20 October 2009
Book #1 looks most interessting to me, since I think I could learn a lot more about photoshop and photography.
Would like to bring this stuff in practice with my dSlr :)
Dimitris Bor, 20 October 2009
1) Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers
I would like more css and jquery tutorials
Thanks!
Adriaan Fenwick, 20 October 2009
Number 14 please.
I would like to read about user experience/interaction design in the web design field covering flash, JQuery and whatever new technology is out there.
Niclas, 20 October 2009
13) Designing interfaces
Very nice!
Twist, 20 October 2009
#12
I would like to see the (x number) of (something) articles get shorter and less frequent. More original content less linking to other content.
TooCoolForThisTool, 20 October 2009
I would like “Designing the Moment”
Martim Santos, 20 October 2009
The #14 would really come in handy.
I would like to see more articles on systemizing the design processs when creating a image for a new company that doesn’t have any kind of image yet, and maybe not even a name.
Basiclly how to go from scratch to an inspiring and creative, visual solution.
Best Regards,
Martim Santos
Franck, 20 October 2009
I’d like to see more articles on JQuery !
And I’m running for book #14
Cheers
Joao Pereira, 20 October 2009
Nice oportunity
Number 13: Designing interfaces
Thancks
Andre Costa, 20 October 2009
#13 or #14
I’d like to see more Actionscript 3 tutorials, specially those focusing on Papervision 3D.
jose raphael hilario, 20 October 2009
book #14 please…
i’d like to see more showcases of great design, in whatever field, for inspiration and ideas and looking at great design just makes me so happy
Johnboy, 20 October 2009
2) Learning jQuery
I’d like to see more about Javascript techniques most notably using progressive enhancement.
Maui, 20 October 2009
Seems to me you are already doing a great job with amazing content on a regular basis – keep up the good work.
Aloha!
#1
scvinodkumar, 20 October 2009
Thanks
My interest is on jquery (book#:2) or photoshop (book#:1).
Because i am learning both these things often.
And i would like to see more information on Flash action script. I do flash, but don’t know how to work on action script.
john williams, 20 October 2009
#9 Designing for the social web
I would like to read about PHP, How to use API, how to speed up a website.
Stridar, 20 October 2009
12) 1000 Graphic Elements
I’d like to see more awesome Photoshop tutorials and print collections please :)
sajan mani, 20 October 2009
i would like to read ‘designing interfaces – Jennifer Tidwell ‘
this is the era of Users! era of ‘U’
so conquer or foresee users mind
is the most fav designing job
i ever gone through.
to learn and grow by
reading this book-thts wht
am expecting from this book.
thnx and regards,
sajan mani(pl dont hesitate to ask my address to courier the book(LOL)!!!)
cyxob, 20 October 2009
#3 Designing the moment
I’d like more css and jquery tutorials.
Alex, 20 October 2009
14) The Designer’s complete index
I would to read some articles on custom theme building in WordPress
Michael Currie, 20 October 2009
I’d like to see some Mootools tutorials, I just can’t get enough. Maybe how to make classes, that sort of thing.
Ahmad Alfy, 20 October 2009
I so badly want #11 Classroom in a book: Adobe Illustrator CS3
I would love to see more MooTools tutorials :)
David Pasztor, 20 October 2009
#4
I like the present style and content, but I think more emphasis needs to be placed on what you set out to show…”what’s new & better”…rather than just the same old lists that other sites might publish.
What’s here is already good, but it would take it to the next level if you really concentrated on showcasing things out there that are really pushing the boundaries of web design.
Ana S., 20 October 2009
#14 -The Designer’s complete index from Jim Krause
Hello! first off all, this site Rocks!
I’d like to see more flash actions script, css and jquery tutorials.
Please keep on the good work!
good luck for everyone!
Chobicus, 20 October 2009
#10
You’re doing fine!
Sergiu, 20 October 2009
wow!
book #3 – Designing the moment
the book covers a very interesting subject
it would be great to read it :)
jonny, 20 October 2009
#14
Any User Interface tuts would be ace.
fran, 20 October 2009
#13 Designing interfaces
I would like to read more about user experience, usability apply to Web design, and the way to implement this design in a correct Web development (using patterns, web standards, …)
Thanks!
Asker, 20 October 2009
#10 Classroom in a book: Adobe Illustrator CS3
It will be really great if you can write a post about the masters behind massive blogs like Smashingmagazine,WebDesignerDepot,Noupe etc..
I want to know the the birth and of such awesome blogs
Yahya, 20 October 2009
#3 – Designing the moment by Robert Hoekman, jr.
Everybody will definitely be interested in getting concepts for clean (with widely used White color) website designs for independent software/web developers to make themselves known to public.
Why this? Because we get to see a lot of profiles from graphics designers and those concepts are way beyond creative intellect of *developers*. You guys already know very well that developers are *very good* in designing UI :-(
Deize Serrano, 20 October 2009
HI! Nice competition you have here.
It is difficult to choose one book among many so interesting ones but… I’d like to win #6.
And I would like to read more about WordPress: what’s new, show cases, experiences…
Cheers :)
Andreas, 20 October 2009
10) The Non-Designer’s Design Book .. looks usefull ;-)
Amanda Fazani, 20 October 2009
#14, absolutely! From Noupe, I hope to see a continuation of intelligent and interesting articles for web designers, with particular focus on project round-ups and showcases, of design, layout and code.
Thanks for the opportunity to express our opinions! I still hope that Noura will make occasional guest appearances though…
Eva Ferenczi, 20 October 2009
Book 8 please
Scelza, 20 October 2009
I would love to open my iGoogle’s “web design” tab and find some more Noupe articles on UI, so #3 is my choice.
We’re all here to learn better design, sharpening the axe, but it’s those fundamentals that are driving this design that we do that I would really like to see more of.
This contest was a great idea, these comments are priceless feedback for Noupe. Attracting people with free books is a small investment compared to the return so far, and it’s still a fresh article!
abdul, 20 October 2009
2) Learning jQuery
the new trend in design that’s include design for mobile phone (ex: iphone, nokia s series etc)
Daan, 20 October 2009
Book #3 for sure!
every book looks interesting, #3 speaks to me!
Mithun Sreedharan, 20 October 2009
#5 Bulletproof Web Design
What ever you post over here, but i prefer more CSS stuff here
Carlo, 20 October 2009
Really really original contest!
I’ll try…
#1 Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers
I want to read many articles of Digital Photography and tips, to become a better photographers!
Bye ;-)
Kalbir, 20 October 2009
Book #4 looks awesome
I would like to see more posts about interactivity: thoughts about presenting information in a more interactive way, rather than just text on a screen. This is different to networking etc, it’s about exploiting a fact about our neuropsychology: we find it hard to concentrate on stuff for too long!
Florian Reußenzehn, 20 October 2009
I would be really interested in book #3 … to understand this kind of process would be great :)
Web 2.0, 20 October 2009
Well I would like to have Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers and maybe also Designing for the social web… Thanks
Bruno, 20 October 2009
#12 seems really inspiring, I’d love to get one :]
Matches, 20 October 2009
Book #2
I want to know more about CMS’s
Marlies, 20 October 2009
Book #1 Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers
Thanks for this cool contest and the every interesting offerings on your blog.
Claudiu T., 20 October 2009
#14 looks great. I’d love to see more design trends.
Navjot Singh, 20 October 2009
I would like to win Book No 5 – BulletProof Web Design. And I would love to see more WordPress related hacks and tips here.
franxo, 20 October 2009
#9
I would like to find more jquery posts related.
Thanks!
Pipifix, 20 October 2009
#3) Designing the moment
I would like to read more about webaccessability (WAI), Usability and userexperience (UX) to make the web nice and usable.
Peter Z., 20 October 2009
Book #12
I would like to see more PS Drawing tutorials.
Rommel Miraflores, 20 October 2009
How awesome! How in the world do you get set up with all these amazing contests?
Prize of choice (if I should be fortunate enough to win:
11) Classroom in a book: Adobe Illustrator CS3
I think I’d like to read some articles about running a successful blog like Noupe. I’d like to know your history; how it all started, what obstacles you’ve encountered and how they were overcome. I’d like to know how you gained all the loyal readers and how you get set up with all the prizes for the contests you run to help keep the readers coming back. So pretty much, a self-interview would be sweet to read about.
Thanks in advance. I really hope you’ll consider the article idea.
Britt, 20 October 2009
1) Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers
I’d like to read about designing interfaces and user experience design.
Albert, 20 October 2009
Book 1
James Harvey, 20 October 2009
book #2
Im a developer by trade and Im here to improve and learn as much design skills as possible.
Im interested in
-design best practices
-photoshop tutorials
-articles covering from concept to finished product
Albert, 20 October 2009
Book #12
I would like to see more articles like 50 most beautiful…
K?rlis, 20 October 2009
I’d like to read more and more about jQuery and it’s plugins.
Prize of choice: 13) Designing interfaces.
paul rostorp, 20 October 2009
i would love to win #14
and I want to see more jquery tutorials.
thanks,
Melissa Troyer, 20 October 2009
Many great choices, but I’d like #14 to have a handy, hard copy of color combos.
I love Noupe’s emails: sometimes they’re a bit long to digest. Continue the great info, perhaps with smaller lists.