I’m one of the lucky ones to get a discount for the Smashing Magazine book. It’s already printed for me, and I’m expecting it to be delivered by the end of November. They’ve already postponed it three months and I guess it’s time for it to see the light.

The Smashing Book is a printed book about best practices in modern Web design. The book shares technical tips and best practices on coding, usability and optimization and explores how to create successful user interfaces and apply marketing principles to increase conversion rates. It also shows how to get the most out of typography, color and branding so that you end up with intuitive and effective Web designs. And lastly, you will also get a peek behind the curtains of Smashing Magazine.

They’ll surely increase their visitor base, RSS count and overall fans, by selling this book. I think it was a great effort, and I also think it will pay back if not already. They partnered with several sites and they are offering syndicated content, this meaning an average of three posts per day. That’s great. I just hope this move doesn’t dillute their quality.

Give us more next time, Smashing Magazine!

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Videos of the week on Butterfly Media Romania Blog.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j104ciE-2CE[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuEX9B4t7X4[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqlTe5VXkHo[/video]

Or head over here for more: http://www.youtube.com/hotforwords

It’s been a while since my last “Links of the week” post, but here it is again, this time reloaded.

http://snook.ca/

From front-end work to hardcore server-side challenges, I share tips, tricks and bookmarks on snook.ca, along with other publications online and offline. First and foremost, this site is a resource—for myself and the community. It’s also my personal design and code playground, a place to experiment, and therefore, a site that is in a constant state of flux.

• Show FeedBurner Circulation using PHP
• The Modulo Operator for Alternating Rows
• How I Added Tagging Using PHP and MySQL

http://idroppedie6.com/

Are you sick of wasting money and time developing for a dead browser? Declare your independence!

http://www.wesabe.com/

Wesabe is part money management tool, part community. We believe that one person’s good financial decision can be leveraged to an entire community. Experts call this collective intelligence. And we have a whole community of people reaping the rewards of it every day. Find solutions to your money problems… you’re not alone in wanting a better financial life.

http://www.apple.com/iwork/iwork-dot-com/

A new public beta, web-based service from Apple that lets you share your iWork ’09 documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in a way that’s both simple and smart.

http://www.atebits.com/

Twitter client for iPhone and Mac. Some say the best.

After realizing my pages got hidden in the big sidebar, I decided to move them and the search box just below the header. A ul/li combination did the trick:

Here’s the CSS style for it. Add it in style.css.

/* Top menu: pages */
#ja-botnav {
background: #CCC;
clear: both;
margin: -2px 0;
padding: 5px 0;
text-align: right;
margin-top: 8px;
}

#ja-botnav ul {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

#ja-botnav li {
margin: 0;
padding: 0 10px;
display: inline;
vertical-align: middle;
}

#ja-botnav li a {
color: #999999;
font-size: 9pt;
}

#ja-botnav li a:hover, #ja-botnav li a:active, #ja-botnav li a:focus {
color: #FFFFFF;
}

And here is the HTML to be added inside the header div:

<div id="ja-botnav">
<ul>
< ?php wp_list_pages('title_li=');?>
</ul>
</div>

If you’re too lazy to do it, download here Whiskey Air 0.9.1 with top menu. Updating Whiskey Air from 0.9 to 0.9.1 is simple. Just replace header.php, footer.php and style.css with the ones in the archive. Don’t forget to carry over any change and addition you’ve made to your Whiskey Air theme.

See here the Whiskey Air theme in action:

• Butterfly Media Romania Blog
• Butterfly Media Romania Corporate Site
• Culinary Recipes [RO]

Do you have your blog powered by Whiskey Air? Share it here and I’ll share some link love.