The way of we learn has changed a lot and that could be thanks to the internet, Now we aren’t fully dependent on the traditional method of reading books although it is still the most wide spread techniques used today. We can now access online books and read different blogs and e-Books to extend our knowledge and sharpen our skills, Like any other professionals, web designers and developers need to add to their knowledge to survive and stay ahead of the cut throat competition.

Today in this post you’ll find 10 must read eBooks for both web designers and web developers top open up a new world of opportunities.

1. How To Be Creative

MacLeod, an advertising executive and popular blogger with a flair for the creative, gives his 26 tried-and-true tips for being truly creative. Each point illustrated by a cartoon drawn by the author himself.

2. The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design

Would you like a process to create more consistently creative work which distinguishes itself from the work of your peers?  Would you like a process which would help translate the often vague, unclear wishes of your clients (and yourself, for that matter) into a clear and solid basis for your design?  This manifesto will show you how

3. Web Designer’s Success Guide

Web Designer’s Success Guide is the definitive guide to starting your own freelance Web design business. In this book he gives designers step-by-step instructions on how to achieve the following:

• Transition from full-time to self-employment
• Freelance on the side to make additional income
• Find new clients and keep them coming back for more
• Market your freelance business
• Manage your projects professionally
• Price your services appropriately

4.  jQuery Fundamentals

jQuery is fast becoming a must-have skill for front-end developers. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the jQuery JavaScript library; when you’re done with the book, you should be able to complete basic tasks using jQuery

5. Dive Into HTML5

Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards.

6. Designing For The Web

Designing for the web is different than designing for any other medium. The breadth of skills required is sometimes daunting. The depth of experience required, seemingly unobtainable. Yet, the medium attracts designers from all spheres of design practice: from engineering and architecture, to product and graphic design.

7. Faster, and More Secure Webfonts

Font embedding for the web is a great step in making the web look better and become more functional, but what about security and load times?

8. CSS Systems For Writing Maintainable CSS

A CSS System is a reusable set of content-oriented markup patterns and associated CSS created to express a site’s individual design. It is the end result of a process that emphasizes up-front planning, loose coupling between CSS and markup, pre-empting browser bugs and overall robustness.

9. Better CSS Font Stacks

One aspect of designing for the web that almost immediately offends designers is the lack of fonts that are considered safe to use. While it is true that there are only a handful of web safe fonts, the ones we do have at our disposal can be quite powerful and diversely useful. On top of that, CSS gives us a nice little thing called a font stack.

10. The Accessibility Checklist I Vowed I’d Never Write

On numerous occasions that there is no simple checklist that, when followed, will give you an accessible site without fail. There are simply too many variables