We're super excited to launch our new LightCMS user forum. So excited, in fact, that we're offering $200 worth of brand new CSS and web-design books to one lucky winner as a part of our "Be Well Read" giveaway!
About the forum
It's online now. Check it out at http://forum.speaklight.com.
LightCMS has a growing and very knowledgeable user base. We get so excited working with all of you guys because you are at the top of your game. That's why we've been looking to create a forum where all of you can share your own insights, ask your questions, and help to build a growing knowledge base of information about the LightCMS product.
Plus, we answer a lot of support email, and we always think that so much of what we write could be helpful to more than just one individual. So, we'll be monitoring the forums constantly and if you ask your questions here, you will not only get the answers you need, but you will also let those answers be available for others to read as well.
About the "Be Well Read" giveaway
Of course, a forum is not worth much unless there are people participating in it. And we know that everyone can use a little motivation to get going with something new. So, that's why we've put together a little giveaway to encourage you to get started using the LightCMS forum.
The prize: You'll "Be Well Read" with this collection of $200 worth of brand new web design and CSS books. This is the mother lode of CSS standards. See below for specifics.
How you win the prize: You'll also "Be Well Read" by others when you make posts in our forum. So, every post you make to the forum in the month of April 2008, whether starting a thread or commenting on someone else's thread, gets you one chance to win. Make 5 posts, get five chances to win. Make 500 posts, 500 chances ... you get the idea. At the end of April, we'll put all of the "chances" into a random generator and pull out a lucky winner. Register and post -- that's all there is to it!
No spamming please. Obviously, your posts and comments have to be constructive and beneficial to the forum in order to count. I think we're all smart enough to know when someone is just trying to stuff the ballot box or spam the forum and doing so will get you eliminated from the competition.
Element Fusion employees are not eligible to win the prize. Sorry guys!
More about the prize
The winner will receive one, brand new copy of each of the following books:
Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has updated his classic to cover improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers. Written in the same engaging and witty style as the first edition, making even the most complex information easy to digest, it remains an essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain.
Author and Web designer, Dan Cederholm, outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control. Each chapter starts out with an example of an unbulletproof site which Dan then deconstructs, pointing out its limitations. He then gives the site a make-over using XHTML and CSS.
This book is your indispensable guide to cutting-edge CSS. You'll learn how to plan, organize, and maintain your stylesheets more effectively; apply the secrets of liquid, elastic, and hybrid layouts; create flickr-style image maps, remote rollovers, and other advanced CSS features; lay out forms using pure CSS; and recognize common browser bugs, and how to fix them.
Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive, CSS-based Web sites. Authors Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag provide an eye-opening look at the range of design methods made possible by CSS.
There are several other books on the market that serve as in-depth technical guides or reference books for CSS. None, however, take a more hands-on approach and use practical examples to teach readers how to solve the problems they face in designing with CSS - until now. Eric Meyer provides a variety of carefully crafted projects that teach how to use CSS and why particular methods were chosen.
Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike.
** Product descriptions from Amazon.com
Let the games begin!
The contest begins today. See you on the forum at http://forum.speaklight.com.
Posted on
Monday, April 7, 2008
by Tim Wall