This week we’ve teamed up with Smashing Magazine, the grandaddy of all design sites, to bring you an unbeatable deal on some must-have reading material for summer.
Smashing eBooks are professionally produced and simply overflowing with enough educational content to turn you into a design pro in several areas. We’re offering not just one or two, but five of them for a mere $25. Read on to check it out.
The Books
This Smashing eBook Bundle normally costs $50 but this week only you can snag it here for half off that price. There’s no better time to stock up on some great reading material for your summer travels.
Here’s a quick run down of the five books you’ll be receiving.
Mastering Photoshop for Web Design, Volume 2
Mastering Photoshop for Web Design Vol. 2 contains 11 articles that cover useful techniques and tricks from Photoshop experts. You will learn about retouching, cloning and compositing as well as designing for iPhone. You will also find obscure Photoshop tricks and time-savers. The articles have been published on Smashing Magazine in 2010 and 2011 and have been carefully edited and prepared for the eBook edition.
Professional Web Design, Vol. 2
This eBook is the second volume of the bestselling Smashing eBook #1. It contains 20 articles that cover current Web Design Trends, Responsive Web Design, User Experience Design, HTML5, Usability and Prototyping. This eBook describes existing and upcoming trends and explains how the Web design might evolve in the coming months and years. It also touches on what Web designers should be ready for to keep abreast of new challenges and opportunities.
Getting the Hang of Web Typography
Getting The Hang of Web Typography, is dedicated to all those web workers that are dealing with typography in their daily lives, but have no special training for this independent craft. As a result there’s been a flood of poorly designed and illegible web pages. The new techniques that web fonts offer — much hailed by some and dreaded by others — might bring about even worse examples of ugly and illegible web typography.
How to Create Selling eCommerce Websites
Designing and developing for e-commerce takes a lot of brain work, knowledge and research before you start. You don‘t only have to please your customer with a beautiful layout and a smart structure – you also have to make your client‘s customers easily understand what it‘s all about, thus providing for a great user experience and high conversion rates. This eBook is dedicated to creating e-commerce websites and it contains more than 260 pages with articles that have appeared on Smashing Magazine.
Mobile Design for iPhone and iPad
Web designers know that their industry changes quickly. Continuous adaptation and development of skills are necessary in order to always stay up to date. Over the past few years, mobile web usage has increased to a point that web designers no longer can afford to ignore it. As a result, web designers have a growing need to be educated in this area and to be ready to design websites that accommodate this audience. This eBook is dedicated to Mobile Design for iPhone and iPad and it contains more than 300 pages with articles that have appeared on Smashing Magazine.
Go Get It!
Now that you know how awesome this bundle really is, head over to our Design Shack Deals page and grab yours before the clock runs out!
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