Product DescriptionHow to Design a deck is a step-by-step guide to planning the perfect deck, quickly and easily. The book will show you simple techniques that will enable you to design a deck that enhances your home, looks great all year and suits your lifestyle needs.
You’ll learn really simple techniques to make sure your new deck looks great with the rest of your garden, whether your garden is established or a completely blank canvas. These low cost solutions are highly effective and will help give your garden the ‘WOW’ factor.
The book is perfect for complete beginners and covers how to:
• avoid the most common deck design mistakes
• choose the best location for your deck
• plot your deck and garden onto paper
• properly plan your deck to get the right size, shape, and style of deck to suit your home.
• make the deck area look and feel longer or wider
• design a deck that works with the whole garden
• effectively tackle changes in level
• design a beautiful garden on a budget
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make the most of the available space using cunning design tricks
• successfully incorporate built in planters, seating and lighting
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choose the right building materials from sustainable sources
• double check you’ve got everything right before your deck is built
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choose the right professional to construct your deck
Also includes access to an online deck ideas picture gallery
A little bit of time spent planning your deck is a very valuable investment. It takes as much time and money to build a poorly or non-planned deck as it does a well designed deck. The visual difference, though, is enormous. The book’s main focus is on design and how to make your whole garden look great. It does include some basic construction information but this is not meant to be a DIY guide on deck building.
You don’t need to be a great artist to design a great looking garden. The design tricks and techniques you’ll learn in this book are simple yet highly effective.
About the Author
Rachel Mathews has been a garden designer for 20 years. She has designed hundreds of beautiful gardens in the UK. She has also designed gardens in the USA and Spain. As well as designing, Rachel now teaches garden design and has written a series of ‘how to’ garden design books and online courses. She teaches a very simple method that enables anyone to create a stunning garden.
Product DescriptionThis book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library. HP’s patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization, improving your reading experience. Despite the cleaning process, occasional flaws may still be present that are part of the original book, reflecting the journey of these collections over a lifetime of use.
I am thinking of setting up my own website, although I am no good with HTML coding etc, i prefer the more visual side of designing and I’ve been wondering if anyone knows of any free, simple, visual design software and if possible e-commerce software built in.
I dont mind whether its online or downloadable software, aslong as its simple enough.
Thanks in advance for any answers!
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We are preparing our new house. And we want to get inspired by photos of rooms with interesting interior design ideas.
Any website recommendation?
Just do not consider a single site. For uniqueness and variety you should follow more. Just take help of goggle images or pinterest (Here you will find lots of stuff of this kind.)
Great Tutorial on Photoshop, Learning how to create your personalised own logo.
This will be showing you how to create a nice, simple and professional logo, out of a font. May be more of these logo tutorials, but not 100% sure right now.
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The real world of Advertising
We learn what the profession is actually like, minus the Mad Men glam.
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This Week in Web Design helps you accelerate your Web Design career by teaching you the Creative, Business, Technology and Marketing secrets from our expert hosts and guests.
Evil’s Book Club:
The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design
by Marty Neumeier
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The Strategic Designer: Tools & Techniques for Managing the Design Process
by David Holston
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Must Have:
Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills
by David Sherwin
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Basic Typography 02: Using Type
By Michael Harkins
http://www.amazon.com/Basics-Typography-Using-Type-Ava/dp/2940411557/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328570041&sr=1-1
Must Have:
Graphic Design for Non-designers: Essential Knowledge, Tips, and Tricks
by Tony Seddon, Jane Waterhouse
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All in One:
Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design
by Bryony Gomez-Palacio, Armin Vit
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Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
By Erik Spiekermann, E.M Ginger
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How do I choose a look and feel for my website?
Jose and Aure answer the question: “How do I sell my web design services?” They share and discuss how they approach sales and Jose will share his secrets to closing a sale.
1. Define it in words first
2. Use visual metaphors
3. Know the history & the rules of design
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The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design
by Marty Neumeier
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The Strategic Designer: Tools & Techniques for Managing the Design Process
by David Holston
http://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Designer-Techniques-Managing-Process/dp/1600617999/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328572336&sr=1-1
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A couple of design ideas for you!
I would love to see how make YOURS. Head over to the facebook page and post your designs or make a video response!
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May 12
7
Web Design For Dummies
Product DescriptionGet up to speed on the newest technologies, tools, and possibilities in web design
Have a great idea for a web site but don’t know where or how to begin? Web Design For Dummies, 3rd Edition is an ideal starting point! Fully updated to cover the latest and the greatest in the world of web design, this fun-but-straightforward guide gets you caught up with everything you need to know to organize your ideas, create a template, start development, test to make sure everything is working properly, and launch your finished site. Packed with invaluable advice on incorporating social media aspects, linking content with social sites, and designing for mobile devices, this book will have you web designing like a pro in no time.
- Highlights the many significant changes in the world of web design since the previous edition, including the introduction of HTML5, new technologies for sharing media, mobile web design, and more
- Zeroes in on effectively using color, text, and navigation
- Reveals helpful advice for avoiding common pitfalls
- Details ways to connect with social sites like Twitter and Facebook
Web Design For Dummies, 3rd Edition goes beyond just making a basic web site and instead encourages you to create a site that is appealing, practical, and useful.
Product Description| Professional Photoshop book ! | This book was designed for people, who are looking for a job, and to apply for a position need a Photoshop knowledge. The book based on personal working experience in editorial offices and graphic design studios. | On the courses you can learn only the basics, but you won’t be hired without working experience. 12 years ago I was in the same situation, finishing a course nobody hired me. | But now I have 12 years working experience in desktop publishing and graphic design, and in this book I give my experience to you. | The book contains 70 REAL step by step Photoshop tutorials – I say “REAL”, because these jobs made by me in editorial offices or graphic design studios, that’s why this book is professional. These tutorials explain you the professional production technology. The courses teach you only the basics, and nobody will explain you these tricks in the office – colleagues do not like if you ask them. You have to know these professional secrets – first to get a job, then to make the job. Otherwise you will make mistakes… | Also, in the book you can find shortcuts, you have to use, working fast as a professional. Professionals are working with shortcuts! | Contents/Chapter 1: 1.Color Settings, 2.RGB/CMYK, 3.Image Size, 4.Canvas Size, 5.Levels, 6.Curves, 7.Yellow Veil, 8.Path, 9.Selection, 10.Load Selection. | Contents/Chapter 2: 1.Feather, 2.Mask, 3.Skin Color, 4.Clone, 5.Shadow, 6.Control Key, 7.Mirror Effect, 8.Motion Blur, 9.Saturation, 10.Sharpen. | Contents/Chapter 3: 1.Custom Color, 2.Black, 3.Bevel and Emboss, 4.History, 5.Layers, 6.Layer Group, 7.Pencil, 8.Brush, 9.Type, 10.Save for Web & Devices. | Contents/Chapter 4: 1.Crop, 2.Path, 3.Path, 4.Color Range, 5.Selective Color, 6.Clone, 7.Colorize, 8.Opacity, 9.Crystallize, 10.Paint Bucket. | Contents/Chapter 5: 1.Gradient, 2.Transform, 3.Polygon Tool, 4.Red, 5.White, 6.Deep Shadow, 7.Clipping Path, 8.Actions, 9.Layers 01, 10.Layers 02. | Contents/Chapter 6: 1.Channels, 2.Path, 3.Path, 4.Path, 5.Path, 6.White, 7.White Point, 8.Color Balance, 9.Drop Shadow, 10.Shadow. | Contents/Chapter 7: 1.Styles Palette, 2.Clone, 3.Clone, 4.Gaussian Blur, 5.Gaussian Blur, 6.Text Palette, 7.Paste Into, 8.Transform, 9.Slice, 10.Replace Color. | Buy this book, get a job! |
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