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Smashing Book 5 - Real-Life Responsive Web Design : Book Review

One of the first websites that I recommend to every novice front-end developer is Smashing Magazine. The website releases a series of books by the name "Smashing Book" and this post reviews the most recent edition, "Smashing Book 5". The theme of the book revolves around making well crafted responsive

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CommitStrip - Rise of the Coders: Review

CommitStrip released a comic book based on the lives of developers, coders and programmers. The hardcover book skill-fully portrays their triumphs, failures, strokes of genius and the absurdities of coders with a stroke of sarcasm and humour.

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Lagom Magazine: Review

This holiday season, I bring you the review of "Lagom", a lifestyle magazine that celebrates & shares personal stories and motivations behind the lives of those creative professionals who strive to achieve a balance between work and play. The theme of the magazine is derived from its name, "Lagom" which is

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Smashing Magazine's Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering: Book Review

Heydon Pickering is a well-known web accessibility expert & recently he published a book with Smashing Magazine by the name "Inclusive Design Patterns". People accessing web have different abilities & needs, use different tools to access the content on websites. The book looks at patterns that enhance the accessibility of our Interfaces

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Bookmarks, Book Lover's Best Pals!

As the festival of Diwali is here, we clean and give away the things we don't require. While cleaning up my bookshelf, I realized that I had collected so many bookmarks over the years, I could publish an entire post on it. Being a voracious book lover, I have made

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Hegarty On Creativity: Book Review

On my way to Bangalore last month, I brought the book "Hegarty On Creativity" to read during my flight. I managed to finish half of it and finished the second half during the journey back. There are no rules to creativity. Yet, there are many people who earn their living

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Typographic Magazine: 8 Faces

Web Designer Elliot Jay Stocks published a series of typographic magazines named "8 Faces". Each issue covers interviews from 8 renounced designers on their 8 favourite fonts. Being a type lover myself, I am a proud owner of 2 issues of the book, 6 & 8. Since the book was run

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"Practical SVG" by Chris Coyer : Book Review

Chris Coyer, a very respectable name in the web development community, released a book, "Practical SVG" last month. Considering his excellent work on CSS Tricks & Codepen, the decision to buy this book was a no-brainer. It starts with basics of SVGs and design tools that facilitate exporting SVGs. The book

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Book Review : "CSS Secrets" by Lea Verou

(tldr; If you are a Front End Web Developer, BUY THE BOOK 😀 ) Last year, Lea Verou, acclaimed front-end developer, released one of the most anticipated books, "CSS Secrets". It received so much love from Web Development/Design community that it quickly went "out of stock" in most of the stores.

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"Painful People" By Cyrus Daruwala : Book Review

The month of September was quite eventful for me. I rejuvenated my creative & technical skills attending events like Google For Mobile, JSFoo, ON's #HeathyIsYummy Workshop and Creative Mornings. Thanks @Mumbai_CM @creativemorning #Mumbai for a lovely morning today. @cyrusdaruwala great talk & books👍 #CMEmpathy pic.twitter.com/u710IOgIOE — Prashant Sani (@prashantsani)

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Awwwards – book – the best 365 websites – 2013 : An Visual Review

The Book,released in early 2014 contains a compilation of all the websites that had been awarded as "Site of Day" during the year 2013 by Awwwards, a showcase website.The book also contains 7 project case studies. The book is complemented with an interactive app with augmented reality, offering

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Book Review : Above the fold

If there could be “One book to rule them all” for novice Web designers, it would be “Above The Fold“. This book goes through every subject/niche of designing websites : from Designing itself to topics like Project Planning; Marketing, SEO, creation of Sitemap, Wireframes, Prototypes,etc. (Illustrative chart on History

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Book Review: Web Design - Navigation(Icon Series)

This sunday, As i went through my bookshelf, I found one of my oldest web-design books, “Web Design: Navigation (Icons)”. Although I purchased this book long back, I never reviewd it on SPIDer. So, Here is a brief review of the same. This inspirational book has around 180+ examples of

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Book Review : Life in Five Seconds

“A picture can say a thousand words”. A couple of days ago, while surfing the web, I came across an Icon Only Book named “Life in five Seconds” . The book beautifully symbolizes concepts, people’s lives, movies etc. using series of icons. On the cover of the book, “Life” itself

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Book Review : The Exquisite Book

In year 1920, Surrealists invented the very famous game, “Exquisite corpse”. People Involved in this game would be shown a part of illustration or drawing that the previous contributor has drawn/illustrated. Based on this, they would curate and draw the next part for the same. The Collaborative efforts, then

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One hundred at 360 degrees book review

There comes a time in life of every creative professional when he/she wants to just get off the screen and read books and explore world to instigate the creative juices of the brain. Even though there are many inspiration seeking websites like Behance ,Creattica, etc every designer must have

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New Book Shelf

Recently, I bought a new book shelf for my book collection. The vintage look on the same looks great and since its closed and covered, my books will be well protected from dust and dirt :). Here are some pics…. I would love to have your thoughts on my new book

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Thank You! Sitepoint

Sitepoint had a Xmas sale last month and the deals were Amazing. So, I ordered a Bundle of Printed Books(Killer UX Design,The Web Designer’s Road map, Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices) and the same were shipped on 27th of Dec,2012(within 2 days

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Smashing Book 3 First Look

Guess What mailman delivered today? This year’s most anticipated book on my reading List, Smashing Book 3. Here is the first look of the book : When the book was available for pre-order, I ordered the book, So, they mentioned my name in the book. Here is a snapshot of

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Dont Make Me Think Book Review

Introduction to Usability: “Its a product when design fulfills purpose, but a toy when it only attracts.” Imagine a website which has so many design elements that you have to think a lot to navigate from page X to page Y; Or a website which is so easy in terms

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Head First Wordpress Review

WordPress is by far, the best blogging platform ever. Being Free and Open source, it cherishes the largest theme & plug-in collection than any other blogging platforms. Head First WordPress is* the book* to get you acquainted with basics of WordPress Blogging. The book starts with explaining the two ways of

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Head First HTML (with CSS and xHTML) Book Review

Are you a Graphic Designer who knows the dangers of automated code? Or you are a beginner level Front End developer, who thoroughly gets confused with HTML tags and CSS? In any case this is the perfect book for you to start coding HTML & CSS. If you love reading books

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Pleasures of ordering Books Online

Sharing unbiased thoughts on ordering books form an online store. Being an avid book reader and a e-shopping enthusiast, I am often asked to share my opinion on the same.

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Book Review : JavaScript 24 hour trainer

Published in December 2010, JavaScript 24 hour trainer is a beginner to mid level JavaScript book written by Net Tuts+ Author, Jeremy McPeak. The whole book is divided in in 3 sections: – 1. Introduction to JavaScript 2. Programming the Browser 3. Handling Errors ,Debugging and Best Practices At first, 43