Jeff Siarto - Web Designer

8 Apr 09

Head First Web Design Giveaway

Head First Web Design has been out for about three months now and by all avail­able mea­sures, it’s done pretty well. We’ve received some great Ama­zon reviews, talked with lots of loyal Head First read­ers via email and through the forums and for a new author like me, it’s all been an incred­i­bly grat­i­fy­ing expe­ri­ence.

To say thanks and to see some of the copies I received be put to good use teach­ing some­one web design (instead of col­lect­ing dust on my book­shelf), I’m going to give­away two free copies. All you have to do is write a com­ment on this post briefly explain­ing how Head First Web Design might help you or some­one you know cre­ate bet­ter, more use­able web­sites. Next week, I’ll pick the two best responses and send them each a fresh new copy of the book.

Note: US res­i­dents only. Unfor­tu­nately, I can’t ship to inter­na­tional addresses. Please make sure you enter a valid email address when you post your com­ment so I can get in touch with you. Also, please don’t write your address in the comment—I’ll con­tact you for that infor­ma­tion if you win.

Update: This con­test has ended. Con­grat­u­la­tions to the win­ners.

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  • Anna

    Hi! I am actu­ally from the UK so am not eli­gi­ble for the com­pe­ti­tion, but just wanted to say that it looks like a great book and I will be check­ing it out! (Saw this on twit­ter and thought I’d just pop in a post to let you know)

  • Jim

    I basi­clly want to take my site (www​.beallfp​.com) to the next level, I lit­er­ally just ordered the Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML today which I found from a post at Kathy Sierra’s old site Cre­at­ing Pas­sion­ate Users. Yours was one of the next for me to order and read after I fin­ished the other one.

  • Moe

    I have been try­ing to learn good web design prac­tices for two years. I, some­how, became good at pro­gram­ming, and missed out on the actual design­ing. One of the rea­sons that hap­pened was I SUCK at draw­ing! I never had that ability/​hobby. When­ever I look around the web for inspi­ra­tion, I saw these nice draw­ings, shapes, and that might have dis­cour­aged me. Then lately I have been look­ing at some pro­fes­sional web­sites, and their sim­plic­ity have daz­zled me. So, I thought maybe I could start cre­at­ing those nice and sim­ple designs and then build up to more com­plex ones, after I got the accepted design prac­tices down. I think the Head First Web Design book is made just for that. I’ll check out the pub­lic library if they have a copy as I’m from Canada, and don’t qual­ify for this give­away.

    Moe

  • Jeff Siarto

    Man, now I feel bad for exclud­ing peo­ple out­side the US. Let’s see how this shapes up the rest of the week and maybe I can make an excep­tion for my UK and Cana­dian friends. My main con­cern is that the book reaches the peo­ple that win and that the ship­ping costs are not 4x the value of the book itself.

  • Rashaad

    I would love to have your book. I am here in the states and need some help. I work for a e-​​commerce store and I need to improve my skills that can fur­ther the design of site. Plus I need to do my own site.

  • Rebecca

    If I could choose to learn any other skill right now, it would be web design. I’ve got­ten by on basic html knowl­edge, but if I knew just a lit­tle bit more (okay a lot more CSS), I’m sure I could take the world by storm. And that would be pretty awe­some.

    Thanks!
    Rebecca

    Madi­son, WI

  • Kathleen

    I would love a chance to read your book. I recently started a new job where my main respon­si­bil­ity is to cre­ate and help update 43 of our member’s credit union web­sites. I’ve become really good at the sim­ple text, PDF and Graphic addi­tions. How­ever, I would like to learn how to mas­ter design­ing an effec­tive and entic­ing web­site. We are get­ting to do a major over­haul on our company’s web­site also (www​.vol​corp​.org) and this would help us come up with totally new and amaz­ing layout/​design.

  • Jeff Doppke

    Not only was hav­ing you and Ethan as teach­ers a great expe­ri­ence, but I truly value both of your inputs on the cre­ation of any web expe­ri­ence. I think know­ing about the whole design/​development process
    and why cer­tain things mat­ter, can only make you bet­ter at your area of spe­cialty (design, develop, IA, usabil­ity, etc.). Not only do I think your book would be a great read, but also a great ref­er­ence for a web design/​development stu­dent like myself who is soon to grad­u­ate and hope­fully find a job to assist in the cre­ation of web sites/​applications/​etc.

  • Matt Cheuvront

    Web Design is the one ‘piece of the puz­zle’ that is miss­ing for me right now — while I don’t think I’ll ever become an ‘expert’ I would like to be pretty darn good. Right now my skills con­sist of basic HTML and CSS edit­ing, mostly trial and error. Being in the process of launch­ing my first startup com­pany, I would love to be able to have some resources to ‘teach myself’ how to (bet­ter) design things on the web. It’s the one thing hold­ing me back from tak­ing over the world! Would love to check out your book and what you have to offer. Help a brotha out!

  • Jeff Siarto

    Two more days to get a com­ments up. At the end of the day on April 15th I’m going to close the com­ments and pick the win­ners.

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