Wordpress Designer 2

Want to take your WordPress theme designs to the next level? Rockstar WordPress Designer 2 picks up where the original Rockstar WordPress Designer left off and teaches you the advanced tools for WordPress mastery! Rohan Mehta translates his extensive experience as a WordPress developer into a straight-forward, practical guide to advanced WordPress features like custom post types, widgets, and more.

WordPress is arguably the biggest, most prevalent content management system on the market. Earlier this year, WordPress.org reported that the WordPress CMS has been downloaded over 32.5 million times. WordPress today is no longer regarded as just a blogging tool, though that was the reason it was created. Its flexibility and ease of customization has led WordPress to be one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) used in the web design and development industry.

As a web designer or developer, WordPress is one of the most potent tools available at your disposal. In Rockstar WordPress Designer 2, Rohan Mehta teaches you to take advantage of WordPress 3.0's more advanced features, including:

Using Metaboxes, Advanced image functions, Custom widgets and option pages, Using shortcodes and custom post types, Internationalization and translation issues, Crafting threaded comments, breadcrumb navigation, and more!

Project Files Included!

Once you're done with this book, you will have a thorough grasp of exactly what is needed to make a WordPress theme usable, flexible and useful. What's more, you'll have access to all the project files used during the course of the book! The Rockstar WordPress Designer 2 book comes with a complimentary copy of the full theme and working project files. This includes Photoshop files of the original design, the basic framework which you'll build off of, and the completed theme!

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Formats : PDF
Pages : 151
Language : English
Released : 2011
Publisher : Smashing Media GmbH

Professional Workflow For Web Designers

The Smashing Package provides financial and legal advice as well as work related icons and vector graphics for professional Web designers. These will surely help you to improve your business workflow and help you carry out sound decisions when engaging in business with clients.

Additionally, we’ve carefully prepared samples of legal documents, along with explanations of their purpose and best use. This product also contains 26 icons and 20 vector graphics. You can use both the samples and the included graphics within the bundle for your private as well as commercial projects without any restrictions.

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Formats: PDF, ePub, Mobipocket (DRM-free)
Pages: 92
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-943075-15-1
Released: May 2011
Publisher: Smashing Media GmbH

Mastering Photoshop for Web Designers, Volume 2

 

As the technology becomes more advanced, all of us seek for time-saving tips and guidelines to make our work much more effective and productive. The brand new eBook "Mastering Photoshop for Web Design Vol. 2" contains 11 articles that cover useful and partly unknown Photoshop techniques and tricks from experts in the field. The articles discuss retouching, cloning, compositing, obscure Photoshop timesavers and designing for iPhone. The articles have been published on Smashing Magazine in 2010 and 2011 and have been carefully edited and revised.

Productivity is a crucial asset of professional designers. Photoshop is an extremely powerful application for photo processing and image manipulation, and we can make it even more powerful by using advanced techniques and design approaches that professionals and experts in the field are using regularly. The better our professional skills are, the more time we can spend to focus on the actual design process rather than the tool we are using to implement it on screen. This book is the brand new Photoshop eBook edition in our Smashing eBook Series which will help you mastering Photoshop and gain a more efficient, advanced workflow in your design process.

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Formats: PDF, ePub, Mobipocket (DRM-free)
Pages: 216
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-943075-12-0
Released: April 2011
Publisher: Smashing Media GmbH

Modern Web Design & Development

We’re seeing better interaction design and more aesthetically pleasing designs. And we’re seeing more personal, engaging and memorable sites, too. But what exactly is making the difference? What new directions is Web design heading in today? What new techniques, concepts and ideas are becoming important?

This eBook contains 16 articles that cover current as well as upcoming Web design trends. It also includes facts on responsive Web design, improving Web security, useful coding tips and practices for HTML5 and CSS3, and much more! This eBook on 'Modern Web Design and Development' touches on what Web designers should be ready for to keep abreast of new challenges and opportunities.

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Formats : PDF, ePub, Mobipocket (DRM-free)
Pages : 309
Language : English
ISBN : 978-3-943075-08-3
Released : May 2011
Publisher : Smashing Media GmbH

Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion

When web design expert Ben Hunt set out to quantify the difference between an ordinary web site and a great one, he expected to find the key in design simplicity. But when his team more than doubled the conversion rates for a wide range of sites, they identified simple yet powerful solutions involving design, copy, appropriate analysis, classic optimization techniques, and targeted testing. You'll find the fixes easy to implement, and they're all right here.

• Understand the essentials - your market, your proposition, and your delivery.
• Create a site that is seen by the right people, provides a compelling experience, and generates the desired action.
• Learn how to use testing to improve your site's conversion rate.
• Discover the holistic nature of web site optimization and why multiplicity matters.
• Examine dozens of simple techniques for building traffic, engaging your audience, and crafting effective calls to action.
• Combine creativity with analysis for the best possible results.

Ben Hunt is Principal Consultant for Scratchmedia Ltd. He operates webdesignfromscratch.com, which provides tutorials and advice to over 120,000 web developers each month. Ben has been designing, coding, and producing web sites for clients worldwide for more than 15 years, and is considered a leader in the web usability industry.

Forewords by Ken McCarthy, founder of the System Seminar, and Drayton Bird, Drayton Bird Associates.