New eBooks Available for Subscribers

If you're a web designer with a thirst for knowledge, you're in luck. We've just partnered with Smashing Magazine and A Book Apart to bring you dozens of eBooks from some of the leading names in the industry, like CodePen co-founder Chris Coyier and typography guru Jason Santa Maria.

You can read as many of them as you want when you take out a combined subscription to Envato Tuts+ and Envato Elements—which also gives you access to hundreds of Tuts+ video courses and the huge Envato Elements library of 200,000+ photos and 26,000+ design assets and templates. 

Our Latest Selection of eBooks

Here's a selection of the new eBooks and what you can learn from them.

• On Web Typography
  

  If you want to learn about web typography, this book is the go-to resource. Jason Santa Maria shows you how to use typography as your design’s voice and the most powerful tool you have to communicate with your readers.
  
  Learn how to evaluate typefaces, consider technical constraints, create flexible typographic systems, and put together your own collection of favorite faces. Author Frank Chimero said: "Fortunately, with On Web Typography, designing with type for screens finally has the clear, wise, and affable introduction the practice deserves."

• Designing for Touch
  

  Touch introduces physicality to designs that were once strictly virtual, and puts forth a new test: How does this design feel in the hand? Josh Clark guides you through the touchscreen frontier. 

  Learn about ergonomic demands (and rules of thumb), layout and sizing for all gadgets, an emerging gestural toolkit, and tactics to speed up interactions and keep gestures discoverable. Get the know-how to design for interfaces that let you touch—stretch, crumple, drag, flick—information itself. It’s in your hands.

• Sass for Web Designers
  

  Let’s face it: CSS is hard. Our stylesheets are more complex than they used to be, and we’re bending the spec to do as much as it can. Can Sass help?

  A reluctant convert to Sass, Dan Cederholm shares how he came around to the popular CSS pre-processor, and provides a clear-cut path to taking better control of your code (all the while working the way you always have). From getting started to advanced techniques, Dan will help you level up your stylesheets and instantly start taking advantage of the power of Sass.

• Practical Approaches for Designing Accessible Websites
  

  We design with viewports in mind, keep track of loading times, and hunt down even the smallest browser bugs—all to create the best possible user experience. But despite all these efforts to constantly improve our products, there’s still one aspect that, unfortunately, comes up short quite often: accessibility.

  With the help of this eBook, you will gain a deeper understanding of common accessibility pitfalls and learn to circumvent them to create a better experience for everyone. As you will see, with accessibility in mind, we can serve many more people than we already do. It’s about time to finally remove the existing barriers and build a more inclusive web. The effort is reasonable, and all our users will benefit from it.

• Design for Conversions
  

  If you're designing a website for a client, the topic of conversion is going to come up. Whether the goal is to accumulate subscribers, sell products or build an email list, most websites these days are designed with some form of conversion in mind.
  

  This book will teach you to become a better designer, with a focus on results: how to use design to increase conversions for your business or your clients. You’ll become an expert designer/marketer in no time! Learn about how to optimise signup forms, lead capture, social proof, pricing pages, calls to action, navigation, and more.

• HTML5 for Web Designers
  

  HTML5 has quickly become integral to the world of web design, so if you need to get up to speed or to get a refresher, this book is perfect for you.
  
  It will help you brush up on syntax and updated elements, and get ready to work with responsive images, microformats, and microdata. Through clear, practical examples, you’ll be up to speed in no time. The revised second edition contains new material on everything from wrangling JavaScript APIs to revisiting the canvas and managing rich media. This updated original continues to be the perfect HTML5 primer.

• Performance Optimization: Techniques and Strategies
  

  No matter how good your design is, people won't stick around to see it if the page loads too slowly. This book will teach you to identify performance bottlenecks and improve loading times, resulting in a much snappier experience and a higher user engagement.
  

  You'll see real-life examples, such as how Smashing Magazine itself achieved performance improvements and a 97–99 Google PageSpeed score, as well as Pinterest’s paint performance case study. With the help of this eBook, you’ll be ready to improve the performance of all your sites.

Start Reading With a Combined Subscription

This is just a small selection of the dozens of books available. You can start reading straight away with a subscription to Envato Elements. For a single low monthly fee, you get access not only to these eBooks, but also to our growing library of over 1,000 video courses on Envato Tuts+.

Plus you now get unlimited downloads from the huge Envato Elements library of 200,000+ photos and 26,000+ design assets and templates. Create with unique fonts, photos, graphics and templates, and deliver better projects faster.

Or, if you're looking for some shortcuts, check out the thousands of professional website templates and themes on Envato Market. In some cases, starting with a well-built template and customizing it can be much faster and more effective than starting from scratch.