Designing For iPhone

With almost half of the smartphone market share, the iPhone is a concrete confirmation that its worth it to be a vanguardist in technology. Designers that have familiarity with the Apple iOS are one step ahead in designing mobile interfaces. If you want do discover trends and special requirements that iPhone applications ask for, this eBook "Designing For iPhone" is a must.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

- How to Create Your First iPhone Application

- Web Development For The iPhone And iPad: Getting Started

- iPhone App Design Trends

- iPhone App Designs Reviewed: Critique Board and Lessons Learned

- iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over Blown Visuals

- iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Disregard Of Context

- Setting Up Photoshop For Web, App and iPhone Development

- Designing For iPhone 4 Retina Display: Techniques And Workflow

- Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone

Since the appearance of the smartphone and tablet computers, we are experiencing a boom in Mobile Design. And, as it happens with the development of new gadgets and technologies, some trends and patterns are already established. With this eBook: Mobile Design Patterns, you will learn the most important guidelines and strategies for Mobile Design, including solutions for forms, tap ahead patterns and UX approaches.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) The Elements Of The Mobile User Experience
2) Picking A Mobile Support Strategy For Your Website
3) Essential Design Patterns For Mobile Banking
4) Seven Guidelines For Designing High Performance Mobile User Experiences
5) Useful Design Tips For Your iPad App
6) A User Centered Approach To Web Design For Mobile Devices
7) Mobile Auto Suggest on Steroids: Tap Ahead Design Pattern

The number of online solutions provided for JavaScript is growing every day. However, the workflow of Web developers and designers frequently culminates to confusion and disorientation due the information overflow. In order to organize this information and provide you with helpful guidelines to successfully optimize your next Web project, we offer you this Smashing eBook JavaScript Essentials (eBook #13). Filled with up-to-date lessons on coding reviews, JavaScript scopes and implementations, AJAX and various tips on JavaScript solutions, this eBook is essential for improving your JavaScript knowledge.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Seven JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career
- Lessons From A Review Of JavaScript Code
- Find The Right JavaScript Solution With A 7-Step Test
- Ten Oddities And Secrets About JavaScript
- What You Need To Know About JavaScript Scope
- The Seven Deadly Sins Of JavaScript Implementation
- A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript
- Searchable Dynamic Content With AJAX Crawling

WordPress is without a doubt the most popular Web software among online publishers. But did you know that there are thousands of plugins and techniques available which you can use to extend WordPress well beyond its potential and transform your site into almost anything you can imagine?

If you want to find out how to extend the limitations of WordPress, this Smashing eBook 10: WordPress Essentials for advanced beginners will help you improve your capabilities, so you can take full advantage of its flexibility. This eBook is packed with copy paste coding snippets and provides practical advice, such as useful techniques for creating your own plugins, adding menus as well as sub menus, and also how to avoid problems with JavaScript and CSS. Find out how to use AJAX and extend the possibilities of WordPress by integrating custom HTML5 tags. With the help of these articles, you will be sure to achieve a good command of better image management and learn how to build media heavy sites, how to integrate Facebook and receive the best tips about the latest developments in WordPress. The advanced tips for WordPress developers provided in this eBook will certainly cater for maximizing the success of your site.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

- Building WordPress Themes You Can Sell
- Developing WordPress Locally With MAMP
- The Developers Guide To Conflict Free JavaScript And CSS In WordPress
- Interacting With The WordPress Database
- How To Create A WordPress Plugin
- How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress
- How To Use AJAX In WordPress
- Better Image Management With WordPress
- Using HTML5 To Transform WordPress TwentyTen Theme

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 eBook Mastering Photoshop for Web Design Vol. 2 (eBook 8) 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Mastering Photoshop: Noise, Textures, Gradients and Rounded Rectangles
- Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks for Photo Retouching
- Photo Retouching Tips and Tricks in Photo Retouching
- The Ultimate Guide to Cloning in Photoshop
- Designing for iPhone 4 Retina Display: Techniques and Workflow
- Mastering Photoshop: Pixel Perfection when Rotating, Pasting and Nudging
- Setting up Photoshop for Web and iPhone Development
- Compositing in Adobe Photoshop: Time Saving Tips
- Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time Savers
- Preparing Photoshop Files for Web Developers
- In Defense of Photoshop

Designing for Mobile can be very complex: it requires many skills such as programming, usability, typography, creating applications. all of this without forgetting the necessary ingredient of visual appeal. This eBook: Essentials of Mobile Design, will give you an overview of the basic features you need to know for designing beautiful and useful Mobile interfaces and apps.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) Not Your Parents Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones
2) Why We Shouldnt Make Separate Mobile Websites
3) How To Build A Mobile Website
4) Making It A Mobile Web App
5) A Study Of Trends In Mobile Design
6) How To Market Your Mobile Application
7) A Foot On The Bottom Rung: First Forays Into Responsive Web Development
8) From Monitor To Mobile: Optimizing Email Newsletters With CSS
9) How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website
10) Creating Mobile Optimized Websites Using WordPress

Designing and developing e-commerce websites is a puzzle with thousands of pieces. Not only are the layout and structure of your Web store important, but you also have to keep the user experience and conversion rates in mind. These are what, in the end, really convince your clients customers to click that shiny Buy now button.

In this eBook (eBook 5) you will be studying the universal principles for successful e-commerce websites, which include improving your checkout process and making your product displays more attractive. In reality, optimizing your conversion rates takes little effort. Find out how to resolve small usability issues to immense effect. Are you familiar with A/B and multivariate testing? Use them to figure out how customers respond to minimal changes in design, content structure and check-out convenience. Customers decide whether to stay on a page in just a few (milli)seconds, so you better make them count.

Only outstanding articles have made it into the book, according to Smashing Magazines high quality standards. Our authors are professionals, and their careful research figures largely in the book. Take the advice of experts who know exactly what they are writing about.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Getting Started With ECommerce
- 5 Universal Principles For Successful ECommerce Sites
- 12 Tips for Designing an Excellent Checkout Process
- How to Engage Customers in Your ECommerce Website
- Principles of Effective Search in ECommerce Design
- 15 Common Mistakes in ECommerce Design
- E-Commerce: Fundamentals of a Successful Re Design
- Improve Your ECommerce Design With Brilliant Product Photos
- How To Use Photos To Sell More Online
- Design To Sell: 8 Useful Tips To Help Your Website Convert
- 7 More Useful Tips To Help Your Site Convert
- Optimizing Conversion Rates: Less Effort, More Customers
- Optimizing Conversion Rates: Its All About Usability
- Use Conversions To Generate More Conversions
- The Ultimate Guide To A/B Testing
- Multivariate Testing: 5 Simple Steps to Increase Conversion Rates

WordPress offers a world of possibilities if you are curious enough to explore them. The most popular blog publishing platform is not limited by its default configurations. You can improve your website with the innumerable plugins, hooks and custom fields new versions are being created almost every day by the global developer community! This Smashing eBook "Mastering WordPress" (eBook 11) is exactly about the above mentioned. We've selected only the best articles on how to use extensions for WordPress with an amazing collection of copy paste coding snippets. They explain advanced methods and techniques which go beyond front end experience and show how to customize back end experience. After reading this eBook, you will be able to transform your website into whatever you want you just have to use your imagination. Make sure you add this source of knowledge to your library!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Definitive Guide To WordPress Hooks
Custom Fields Hacks For WordPress
Power Tips For WordPress Template Developers
Advanced Power Tips For WordPress Template Developers
Advanced Power Tips for WordPress Template Developers : Reloaded Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plugin
Ten Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know
Create Perfect Emails For Your WordPress Website
Writing WordPress Guides for the Advanced Beginner
Advanced Layout Templates In WordPress Content Editor

When developers push aside CSS to concentrate on JavaScript performance, they might be overlooking some great applications of CSS. This eBook, CSS Essentials, explores some practical implementations of CSS, including usage of pseudo elements in CSS, decoupling HTML from CSS, Modern CSS layouts with equal height columns, taming CSS selectors, and many others. These techniques will help improve both the performance and maintainability of your Web pages in various browsers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Backgrounds in CSS: Everything You Need To Know
- The Mystery Of The CSS Float Property
- The Z Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look
- CSS Sprites: Useful Techniques, or Potential Nuisance?
- Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics
- Modern CSS Layouts, Part 2: The Essential Techniques
- Writing CSS For Others
- Decoupling HTML From CSS
- CSS Specificity And Inheritance
- Equal Height Column Layouts with Borders and Negative Margins in CSS
- !important CSS Declarations: How and When to Use Them
- CSS Sprites Revisited
- Learning To Use The :before And :after Pseudo Elements In CSS
- Taming Advanced CSS Selectors
- Six CSS Layout Features To Look Forward To

This guide to professional Web design was carefully selected, prepared and edited to bring you the most useful Web design advice from Smashing Magazine’s articles. Know where you stand, put your situation in perspective, and get the advice you've been looking for.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites
- Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns And Current Practices
- Creating A Successful Online Portfolio
- Better User Experience With Storytelling
- Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications
- Progressive Enhancement And Standards Do Not Limit Web Design
- Color Theory For Designers, Part 1: The Meaning Of Color
- Is John The Client Dense Or Are You Failing Him?
- How To Identify And Deal With Different Types Of Clients
- How To Respond Effectively To Design Criticism
- Web Designer’s Guide To Professional Networking
- Group Interview: Expert Advice For Students and Young Web Designers