I recently considered adding a SitePoint updates feed for about five minutes, until I regained sanity. After all, a quick glance at my bookshelf for the tell-tale orange and blue logo only confirms one thing - I should just have my paychecks automatically deposited in SitePoint’s account. First it was The Principles of Beautiful Web Design. Not only did it make graphics design concepts as they relate to developing web sites easy to understand, finally lending structure and organization to my design process, the book was just damn pleasurable to read.
I am such a sucker for full-colour texts and vivid examples. I want the pretty pictures! And the clean, vibrant typography, with brilliant headings and geek humour in the content too. Like Dummies books, without the dummy. Real, useful information, in a book I want to flip through again and again!
Then came The Usability Kit, and Deliver First Class Websites, both ordered at once. And somewhere around there, Simply JavaScript too. Soon came the Photoshop Anthology - first offered free for download! Clear, accessible reading. Books I just want to look at. Useful, meaningful concepts and examples.
No, I must not add the feed. However, I have to admit, just writing about them now is putting me dangerously close to visiting their website to see what new books are out now. Eek!
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