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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Juan Jose, 22 October 2009
#2 “Learning JQuery”. I’m interested in reading more about JQuery & Ajax development. Thanks!
Anand Prabhu, 22 October 2009
#1
I would love to see more articles on the web design using Photoshop :)
rnella01, 22 October 2009
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.
nlee, 22 October 2009
I’d actually like a couple: Designing the moment or the Illustrator cs3! Either would be great!
veeru, 22 October 2009
I would love to have book #2 ( learning jquery) as i started learning and using in my projects
Cayo Medeiros, 22 October 2009
Book #13 plz
Articles about minimalistic designs would be nice ^^
Jenar Idn, 22 October 2009
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.
LeAnne Dolce, 22 October 2009
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.
Mike Hagstrom, 22 October 2009
#14 – I would like to read more things about designer collaboration and such
Stewart, 22 October 2009
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.
Tien, 22 October 2009
#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.
Stephen, 22 October 2009
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!
Morgan Estes, 22 October 2009
#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!
Eduardo Baldan, 22 October 2009
#13 Designing interfaces is awsome!!
jerboa, 22 October 2009
#14
look incredile
i am looking for more fine design article
Martin Silva, 22 October 2009
Go for #13
I would like to read more about UX / UI and also information architecture.
Great work.
Thanks
Monica, 22 October 2009
#3, #7
more about usability, IA, and tips for design
ernie bryant, 22 October 2009
#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.
david, 22 October 2009
I would like book #14
I would like to read about the self disciplines of being a strong visual artist.
Dan, 22 October 2009
woohoo!
Rodney Keeling, 22 October 2009
#3
Oh my god how do I unsubscribe from comment replies?!
Scott Bell, 22 October 2009
#5.
Would like to see some tutorials that differ from the standard, here’s your header, feature bar, conent area, sidebar and footer variety.
Wagner Matos, 22 October 2009
13 Sounds quite interesting… Obviously won’t complain if get them all ;)
bouddoar, 22 October 2009
#1 I like to read more about photography and designs.
Mathe, 22 October 2009
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..
Samanta, 22 October 2009
#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.
kiedis, 22 October 2009
Ohhh free gifts :D
Dipak Patel, 22 October 2009
#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. :-)
Dipak Patel, 22 October 2009
#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.
Donald Hines, 22 October 2009
1,2,4,7,13, or 14. More tutorials, please.
kerwin, 22 October 2009
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!
Darin Senneff, 22 October 2009
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?
Diane, 22 October 2009
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…
Boris Jaeger, 22 October 2009
I* would love to eat/read book #13
*the interactive digital media student guy
KarenB, 22 October 2009
Book #14 or #5
More on designing for WordPress
Michal Zigo, 22 October 2009
I’d like book #14 or #3 :)
And i’d like to read more theoretical and educational posts.
mansur, 22 October 2009
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…
maria lourdes sinio, 22 October 2009
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”.
Amaiko, 22 October 2009
I would like to win book #4
i want to read more about web design and wordpress
Moh, 22 October 2009
book #2
becaus you can’t know enough about jquery
Bare Are, 22 October 2009
I’d like to read more about intergrating social networking.
I would like to win #9.
Pep, 22 October 2009
#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 !
Anthony B., 23 October 2009
Hi, I would like to win #14
Thank you for your work also!!!
Alexander McIntosh, 23 October 2009
I would LOVe to win number 3.
I like inspirational posts and tutorials, more of them would be fantastic!
David, 23 October 2009
I would like to win 4,5 and 7.
I’d like to read more about CMS.
John Swaringen, 23 October 2009
Wow, some excellent titles that I hadn’t heard of all of them look interesting.
Gary, 23 October 2009
Hoping to win book #2.
In the future I would like to see information and tutorials related to HTML 5.
Srikanth, 23 October 2009
Im happy to participate… :-)
Toby Hemmerling, 23 October 2009
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.
Cayo Medeiros, 23 October 2009
Book #3
Maybe some posts about CMSs that have an specific focus like “real state”, “wiki” or something like that.
jem, 23 October 2009
#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.
Sven Lennartz, 23 October 2009
CLOSED NOW! All winners have already been contacted (see above).
Alexandru Pitea, 23 October 2009
#12, just love it!
alk, 23 October 2009
my goodness. i hope im not to late as a candidate for these books
Anca G, 23 October 2009
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.
Cayo Medeiros, 23 October 2009
Book #14
Maybe some posts about entrepreneurship =D
epsen, 23 October 2009
#1
more jquery articles
ali, 24 October 2009
did l miss this, l want one
Roshan Shrestha, 24 October 2009
So sad i miss this :(
Silvia, 26 October 2009
1) Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers …. I’m a photography junkie !!!! :)
Kelsy Kramer, 29 October 2009
#12 & #14– I love anything Rockport publishes. I’ve had my eye on those index books for quite sometime!
ilkut, 01 November 2009
can not really pick, they all seem to be easy to be interested in!
ajay, 03 November 2009
hi, all the books are great and more helpful for readers.