The ultimate guide to UX from the world's most popular resource for web designers & developers Smashing Magazine is the world's most popular resource for web designers & developers & with this book the authors provide the ideal resource for mastering User Experience Design (UX). The authors provide an overview of UX & User Centred Design & examine in detail sixteen of the most common UX design & research tools & techniques foryour web projects. The authors share their top tips from their collective 30 years ofworking in U Xincluding: Guides to when & how to use the most appropriate UX research & design techniques such as usability testing prototyping wire framing sketching information architecture & running workshops How to plan UX projects to suit different budgets time constraints & business objectives Case studies from real UX projects that explain how particular techniques were used to achieve the client's goals Checklists to help you choose the right UX tools & techniques for the job in hand Typical user & business requirements to consider when designing business critical pages such as homepages forms product pages & mobile interfaces as well as explanations of key things to consider when designing for mobile internationalization & behavioural change. Smashing UX Design is the complete UX reference manual. Treat it as the UX expert on your bookshelf that you can read from cover-to-cover or to dip into as the need arises regardless of whether you have 'UX' in your job title or not. ...

The ultimate guide to Word Press from the worlds most popular resource for web designers & developers As one of the hottest tools on the web today for creating a blog Word Press has evolved to be much more that just a blogging platform & has been pushed beyond its original purpose. With this new edition of a perennially popular Word Press resource Smashing Magazine offers you the information you need so you can maximize the potential & power of Word Press. Word Press expert Thord Daniel Hedengren takes you beyond the basic blog to show you how to leverage the capabilities of Word Press to power advanced websites. Addresses new theming options custom post types custom headers menus background & more Explains how to build beautiful & unique Word Press themes & creating amazing navigation Walks you through building plugins integrating theme options creating custom login forms & admin themes & using the Loop to control content Zeroes in on building a Word Press project for SEO Highlights integrating Word Press with the social web Smashing Word Press Third Edition teaches you how to make Word Press look any way you like--from a corporate site to a photography gallery & much much more! ...

When Mick Rathbone signed for Birmingham City as a 16 year-old apprentice he was living every schoolboy's dream. But when he discovered he was so nervous he was unable to speak let alone pass the ball in the presence of his boyhood hero & City star Trevor Francis he realised that a career in football might not be everything he had imagined. The Smell of Football is the brutally honest & utterly unputdownable story of how ' Baz' conquered his personal demons to build a life in the game
- from the terrified teenager who purposely tried to get injured in training rather than get picked for the first team to the experienced pro who became Head of Medicine at Premier League Everton FC in charge of the treatment of the likes of Wayne Rooney Louis Saha & Tim Cahill. Brilliantly written & packed with hilarious tales featuring a football 'who's who' cast of characters
- from Sir Alf Ramsey & ' Big Sam' Allardyce to David Moyes Duncan Ferguson & Rooney himself
- The Smell of Football is an engrossing & moving memoir that covers every aspect of the professional game & gives an unprecedented insight into what life is really like at football's coalface.


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How does your dog smell? Very well as it happens! With up to 100 times as many olfactory receptors as humans dogs use their sense of smell to 'see' & interpret their world just as we do with our eyes. A dog's keen sense of smell is helped by a wet nose which has a layer of mucus that absorbs some scent molecules more quickly allowing even the faintest scent to be detected & followed. & it's not just specialist hounds such as gun drug & bomb detection dogs that have this amazing ability. All dogs love to sniff out new smells & messages
- their very own 'p-mail'!
- Your faithful friend can be taught to find those lost car keys tell you if your food contains minute traces of nuts or even locate a missing person & in such a way that these 'nose games' are great fun for both of you! This book
Includes:: How does a dog's nose work? Hide & seek games for beginners; What is my dog telling me? Which scent is that? Following trails; more trailing challenges; & advanced exercises.


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Bill is stinkier than ever in this brilliant new chapter book full of Smelly Bills smelly adventures on one very whiffy weekend! When Bills family decide to go away for a weekend Bill is taken to the kennels. Now they can have a nice relaxing holiday without any trouble or can they...?! Join the multi-award winning Smelly Bill for three brand new adventures with illustrations throughout! ...

Young Peter Ped was a little bit odd. He ate nothing but peas fresh or canned. He ate peas for breakfast & brunch for dinner & lunch til he tooted just like a brass band!" Peter loves peas but the peas make him a little smelly. Then one day Peter turns as green as a pea--and he cant stop tooting! At school his classmates tease him but on the way home some aliens spot Peter take him to their planet Krell & declare him King! On the alien planet Peter is loved for being green & incredibly smelly. The only problem is the planet lacks peas. Peter is slowly turning pink & smelling sweeter so the aliens return Peter back to his home where he decides on a new food to love!" ...

A fun interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage & motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their spelling skills reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun magical characters & fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities. * Motivating activities based on the KS1 National Curriculum * Step-by-step learning introduced by fun characters *
Includes: gold stickers to reward achievement
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A fun interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage & motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their spelling skills reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun magical characters & fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities. * Motivating activities based on the KS2 National Curriculum * Step-by-step learning introduced by fun characters *
Includes: gold stickers to reward achievement
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All he wants is to find a home but thrown out into the snow on Christmas day the smelly sprout comes up against a terribly rude Christmas tree an awfully impolite snowman & worst of all
- a greedy fox. But will a chance encounter with someone as small as the sprout change everything? With deliciously witty illustrations & a story to touch the heart this charming tale is loved by children & parents alike. & one things for sure love them or loathe them youll never look at a sprout in the same way again.
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The best graphic design does more than capture attention & make the audience linger. It prolongs the encounter compelling the reader not only to notice but to remember. This book is about making graphics memorable by using witty thinking. It argues that ideas which happen in the mind stay in the mind. Beryl Mc Alhone & David Stuart begin by explaining what wit is & how it works. They make the case for wit in graphic design seeing humour as the shortest distance between two people. The different routes designers can take are explainedincluding ambiguity missing links substitution & double-takes
- to clarify the options available at the start of an assignment. A Smile in the Mind documents the power of intellectual playfulness as it invades even the corporate heartland of annual reports & the dry territory of technical literature. Designers can refer to examples for every category of graphics from direct mail to information graphics & for a variety of sectors from leisure & the arts to manufacturing & the law. For the finale witty designers answer the big question: how did they get the idea? They offer a peep into their private working methods as they check out word lists look at things sideways or put several jobs on the table at once. Gathering together the best examples of graphic wit over the past three decades A Smile in the Mind shows work from over 300 designers in the USA Britain Europe & Japan.
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