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As you know, our web design superhero’s dont just love designing websites, but they also love helping other budding web design superheros maximise their own potential! This last week they have been flying around the internet and supersonic speeds to find the best free web design resources and put them all in one place, here!

These first books are all ebooks, available as downloadable PDFs that you can read on your computer or mobile device.

	Web Designers’ Success Guide This book, while a little old and so has some technical details that are wrong and dated, still have a lot to offer to freelance designers in terms of web design and HTML.
	Design Your Imagination This book has 28 jam packed chapters that are an excellent resource for website designers who are new to web design and want to build their web design skills.
	HTML5 Quick Learning Guide You’ve heard all the hype about HTML5, and now you want more? This is a nice short guide to HTML5 so that you can get building HTML5 websites quickly.
	Introduction to Good Usability Usability and websites that are built with a user centric design focus are more important than you think. Usability is something that many designers forget but this 20-page ebook can help you understand it better.
	The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design Struggling with web designs and design briefs? This manifesto by Stephen Hay helps you be creative with your work and designs and get clear assistance for those designs from your clients.
	How to Be Creative This is a good book on being creative. I love the fact that the first suggestion in this ebook is to “ignore everybody.” So don’t forget to ignore us and this ebook! But this book is great inspiration for anyone in a creative field, be it basket making or web design.
	Taking Your Talent to the Web This is another older book (originally published in 2001) but it still gives some good advice for how to move from print to web design and how you can get started as a web designer. If you are thinking of making the move from print to web design then this is a very good book for you.
	Time Management for Creative People Ever feel that your time just trickles away too quickly when you are designing that new homepage? Or you cant find a minute to be creative and brainstorm ideas? This ebook gives you a lot of great suggestions for finding time to be creative and guarding that time aggressively.

4 web design books online

These 4 books you cant download, but just like the ebooks above they are a great source of inspiration and resource for any budding website designer.

• Designing for the Web
• The Elements of Typographic Style
• Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design
• Web Style Guide

If you are a web design superhero and you have found some good resources that we have left out then let us know and we will add it to the ever growing web design resource list. If you like the resources here then please bookmark the page for quick reference. If you like what our web design super hero’s produce for you here then please take a moment to comment, hit the like button at the top or tweet us. Thanks!