Our week-long sale continues today with 20% off the orange title in our collection - A Practical Guide to Designing with Data by Brian Suda. If you've ever been asked to produce a chart or graph, you should read this book. Brian takes you o...
All this week we're offering 20% off a selected Practical Guide title each day. Today's title is A Practical Guide to Designing the Invisible by Robert Mills. Designing for the web is not just about fancy layouts, the latest CSS3 or HTML5 or ...
This time last year we were celebrating the launch of Dan Zambonini’s A Practical Guide to Web App Success. If you're thinking about creating a web app, have already started to build one, or want to improve an existing app, you need to read this b...
Our last blog post, where we chatted with Owen Gregory about copy-editing, looked at the beginning of our book production process. Since then we've copy-edited, proofread and amended the text (and then done it all again at least three times). Wit...
Production for Managing Web Projects is chugging along nicely, so we thought we’d take a quick break to give you an insight into the parts different people within the team play. This week, we speak to copy editor Owen Gregory, who can usually ...
A few weeks ago we teased you with the announcement that Managing Web Projects by Breandán Knowlton, the latest title in our Practical Guide series, would be coming soon. Today we can announce that the book will be available to buy from Tuesda...
This January, we're launching a new series of Pocket Guides – concise ebooks on specific subjects, written by well-known web design writers, speakers and practitioners. Our new Pocket Guide series will dovetail with our well established Practical ...
Here in the UK and across the world, parents are breathing sighs of relief (and some are shedding a few tears) as the school bell rings for the start of another school year. In a few weeks' time students everywhere will start their academic year a...
We're pleased to announce that Five Simple Steps has joined the ever-growing book lovers' community over at Readmill. Why? Well, because we love books, and we love sharing. The guys over at Readmill are doing a great thing. Previously it w...
Announcing a new Five Simple Steps book is pretty much akin to how a family treats the arrival of a new baby. For us, having a book delivered into our hands after helping it grow from a single idea leaves us feeling jubilant, and more than a littl...