The new book is my biggest yet. Stacked next to the other volumes you can see it is thicker. And even better all of the images are larger then ever. The biggest bit of feedback I have received over the years is to make the images larger. We have listened and I believe you will love the results.

This book we be of the same scale and style as my main idea books. It will contain around 700 examples of awesome mobile web design including both responsive and mobile specific approaches. Note, this is not a book about mobile apps. This is a topic that already has plenty of coverage. And while there is some focus on inspiration in the area of the mobile web, I think there should be more, lots more.

As usual the most awesome part is that I need you to submit your work. My books are only as good as the entries I receive. As such I encourage you to submit your work!

I often get asked for tips on how making it in so I figured I would compile a few key factors here.

1. This is a book about beautiful web design – as such I focus on the best and most beautiful designs possible.
2. One of the best tricks is to submit your work early. At the beginning I have an entire book to fill and a nice looking site can easily be placed. The farther into the book I get the more specific my needs are. The morale of the story is to submit early for the best chance.
3. Provide all the details you can. All of the extra fields in the entry form that describe your site help me to find a way to fit it in. Help me to help you (as Jerry Maguire might say).

As always keep in mind that I am not out to showcase a who’s who of the web. I love featuring smaller shops, undiscovered talent and those that are content to operate outside the limelight. Take a chance and send your work in. I LOVE finding fresh new material and showcasing a wide range of designers!

So, please head over and send in your work!

Submit your work

I will continue to produce books in the main Idea Book series and I will probably start Volume 4  some time in late 2013. This means I have time to do another book! I have several topics that I am really interested in covering and getting your feedback will really help me understand what will go over well. Since I have several ideas I love, finding out what you want is going to really help me decide. Even more so, it will help me pitch the idea to my publisher!

And as a small incentive I will be giving away 5 free books. Each winner can select from one of my currently published books.

Here is the survey, and thank you in advance!

The good folks over at Codrops (who did a very nice review of my last book) are hosting a giveaway of 5 signed copies of my last book, The Designer’s Web Handbook. Even better these five copies can/will be shipped internationally. So if you want a chance to win a free book, head on over and enter the contest.

More chances to win free books headed your way this week! Stay tuned!

It seems my problems were compounding. I had an out of date site that had been hacked into place as my needs for the books grew and changed. I had a member system I couldn’t really modify. And I was on a rather expensive platform.

Step one of this is the new site you see now. I am now in total control of my destiny and can build anything I want. The unfortunate downside is that the members portal that many of you signed up for is gone. It was actually going to be virtually impossible (as in insanely time consuming) for me to update the status of all the sites anyway. So, I will be alerting you to an opportunity to simply email me and ask about your site in the very near future.

Step two is going to be a whole new member portal. But this time I am going to build it from some starting point and include all of the features that you need to submit and track your sites, as well as what I need to quickly and efficiently process thousands of entries.

So I apologize to the many people that used the system. But when it comes to my next book (more news on that soon) I think you will be happy with the change.

Read the review on Codrops

This new book is a guide to working with and designing for the web. My hope is that it will demystify web design software and technologies to help designers embrace interactive design. In this free webinar, you’ll get a preview of what the book has to offer and learn the top five things every designer should know about web design. You’ll also have the chance to win a copy of the book!

Note: Seating for all live DesignCasts is limited to 1,000 people, and registration does not guarantee you’ll get in, so be sure to sign in early the day of the event. (If you cannot attend live, you will be sent a recording of the event within a few days.)

Save your seat for the Virtual Book Signing now!

I am still assembling the bonus resources that will posted here on the books site. Sign up for the email list, or check back to see when I have it up. I am working hard to make the supplement as current as possible!

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