CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
CSS mastery is an amazing book, from the first page to the last. Written by Andy Budd, Cameron Moll and Simon Collison. This book covers all the basics of the creation of proper, clean and valid xHTML to really advanced CSS. The two last chapters of the book covers their case study. In these two chapters you will find many good tips, tricks and techniques which will make your website stand out from the crowd.
The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design
This book is a thoughtfully organized catalog of web design resources and inspiration. Obviously, reading this book will not teach you to be a great website designer. What it will do is expand your design vocabulary train you to break down your favorite sources of design inspiration into bite-sized chunks that you can use in your own work. This book is a must have when you are in a creative rut.
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is an extremely useful book about basic design principles. To some, design is something that is tough to grasp and is a mystery to understand. To others it simply comes naturally. If you find yourself struggling with design and need some direction, then this book is for you. Throughout each of the chapters Jason breaks down the specifics of layout and composition, color, texture, typography, and imagery. Are you struggling with your web design for the moment? Get back to basics with The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird.
Proving itself a staggering 42 times faster at rendering JavaScript than IE 7, our benchmarks confirm Apple’s Safari 4 browser, released in beta today, is the fastest browser on the planet. In fact, it beat Google’s Chrome, Firefox 3, Opera 9.6 and even Mozilla’s developmental Minefield browser.
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Data charts are usually achieved with the help of Flash, Silverlight or Javascript.
In this clever tutorial from CSS globe you will not use any form of javascript or backend application. All you will rely on is well formed CSS and markup.
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A logotype is usually the first impression a person get of your business and product. If you are making your own logo you probably know how hard it is to find your creativity. That’s why the Resource Ninja has been digging around the archives of the world wide web, and guess what? He found 15 amazing sources of inspiration for your next project. From showcase sites to tutorial and inspirational sites.
Check them out!
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One site to rule them all is what envato is saying when they merge there powerhouse PSD tuts with vector tuts and NET tuts this week. These site are now know by the name tuts+. There plan is to sell membership subscriptions to source files and other goodies related to the tutorials provided on the site. For only 9$ a month you get connected to all these sites and can enjoy your tutorials even more.
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Over at WooThemes they are releasing there first free icon pack.
The free download contains a total of 79 clean icons, sized at 256×256 pixels and are available in both .PNG and .GIF formats.
Download: Ultimate icon set
Source: WooThemes
The installation of wordpress does not take long at all and your blog should be working perfect right from the start. But if you are looking for better performance, higher traffic and more stability I recommend you to follow 5 of my simple tips. It doesn’t take a rocket-scientist to come up with these tips. But its always good to have a little reminder of what to do when wordpress is installed.
1. Permalinks
Go to settings -> Permalinks and simply choose the permalink structure you would like. Personally I prefer a custom structure with category/postname. Presss “Save changes” and you should be done. If your .htaccess file is not writable you will have to do this step manually. Simply by adding the mod_rewrite rules to your .htaccess file from the field below.
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