Have You Tried “The Smashing Book” Yet?

Dec 17, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Design 3 Comments

Smashing BookHave you tried Smashing Magazine’s The Smashing Book yet? I haven’t, but the full-color 313 page paperback is very tempting at it’s $29 price. Most computer-related books are much costlier than that, and they’re not by an online publication notorious for “smashing you with the information.”

The topics covered include “The Art And Science Of CSS Layouts,” web typography, “User Interface Design In Modern Applications,” usability principles, color theory, branding, and a brief history of Smashing Magazine.

They have some scans and a PDF sample chapter on the website, which look pretty good to me.

Have any of you read the book? Is it worth the money? It seems like a promising book to me, and I’ve been wondering about it lately. (Digging into WordPress, as well, as caught my attention.)

  • http://www.problogdesign.com/ Michael Martin

    I have it sitting next to me now. Haven’t managed to start into it yet, just scanned over parts of it!

    The first thing that hit me was that it covered a lot more than I thought it would, e.g. the optimization chapter has tutorials for both Apace and Lighttpd on optimizing those setups.

    There’s also a typo on the contents page, had to smile at that! :D

    All in all though, looks like a great book! :)

    • http://www.webmaster-source.com redwall_hp

      The first thing that hit me was that it covered a lot more than I thought it would, e.g. the optimization chapter has tutorials for both Apace and Lighttpd on optimizing those setups.

      What about NGINX? :)

      It sounds like a great book, and it’s very tempting, but I just ordered a couple of (fiction) books, so I don’t know if I want to get it right now…

      Post a review on PBD once you get around to reading it. :)

  • http://ranjit.110mb.com ranjit

    Nice book..