Hey there,

It's been hard to squeeze in all the content we have in store for you this week! You can look forward to:

• A new UX book release
• More from the AtoZ CSS series
• Open source contributor Ken Wheeler, on The Versioning Podcast
• And plenty more

It's a good week!

DESIGNING UX FORMS

Did you know that eBay made an additional $USD 500 million annuallyfrom redesigning just one button on one of their mobile form screens?

Study has found that on average, designing a form to have a great user experience almost doubled the rate of successful first-time completions.

We share these insights with you in Designing UX: Forms, taking you through:

• Wording to use
• Form UI and interactivity
• How to design responsive and beautifully forms
• Real-world examples, both good and bad

Happy reading!

SITEPOINT'S TOP LINKS

This week's best links, straight to your inbox.

Managing Dependencies
Learn diverse methods to incorporate third-party libraries in your app, glimpsing into some of the mainstream bundlers and how to use them in your projects. #JAVASCRIPT | SITEPOINT PREMIUM |

Creating a Cloud Backend for Your Android App Using Firebase
Facebook announced that they were shutting down Parse in 2017, forcing its users to hastily find alternatives. We explore this further. #MOBILE | 

Six Examples of Chart.js 2.0
If your website is data-intensive, it needs to be easy to visualize. Let’s use Chart.js and work through six different examples to visualize your data. #JAVASCRIPT | 

Sourcehunt 2016.8
Update your Sourcehunt resources with this extensive list of open source contributions we’ve compiled for your convenience.  #PHP | 

The Ultimate Guide to Java 9
It’s just six more months until the scheduled release of Java 9! Have a look at all the shiny new things we get to play with. #JAVA | 

Working Through a 2-Layer Image Overlay
The problem when working through web tutorial is that, sometimes you just can’t get them to work. Here the community work through a CSS example. #COMMUNITY

Should PHP Make the $ Optional?
It has been suggested that we deprecate the $ sign in PHP variables? The reason, "There is really no point to it, and pressing the shift+4 combination 3 times in each line of code is not making it any easier on the fingers." What do you think? #COMMUNITY

ATOZ CSS RELEASES

Working through CSS, letter by letter. Let's catch up on this week's AtoZ CSS releases.

AtoZ CSS Quick Tip: Auto
Here is the first quick tip in the aforementioned AtoZ CSS series! Guy Routledge looks at letter A — the auto property.

AtoZ CSS Screencast: Box-Model
Next in our AtoZ CSS Series, Guy looks at letter B — the CSS Box-Model.

AtoZ CSS Quick Tip: Box-Model
Here's our bonus quick tip to accompany the CSS Box-Model screencast.

AtoZ CSS Screencast: Color
For letter C, Guy Routledge looks at the all-important color property in CSS.

AtoZ CSS Quick Tip: Color
Here's our bonus quick tip to accompany the CSS Color screencast.

INCREDIBLE INTERNET LINKS

This week's top tech happenings, straight to your inbox.

The Correct Way to Validate Emails
Never again will you need to worry about writing the perfect validating regex, or accidentally reject valid email addresses.

A Not So Modest Fast Webpage
Quote: “I am a fast webpage, kneel before my greatness. Unlike your inferior, punk pages I load quickly and immediately.”

Calculating Proportional Values in SQL
SQL is great for aggregating these tasks. Periscope Data have created a tip for you to  track the proportion of users coming to your site from different source.

Google Project Bloks
Project Bloks is an innovative, physical coding experience by google. Its aim is to teach kids to coding though IoT modules.

If CSS Positioning was an Ice Cream Sundae
If you’ve built an ice-cream sundae, then CSS positioning will be easy to learn with this explanation. Who ever knew learning could be so delicious?

The Programming Zoo
Just a collection of miniature programming languages. A great starting point in case you were considering creating your own.

UPCOMING SITEPOINT EVENTS

Webinar: Making the Most of CodePen with Chris Coyier 
We had Chris Coyier join us in a recent podcast, now he’ll switch seats and show us how you can really use CodePen to its full potential in our upcoming webinar.

Live Lesson: User Interface Design with Sketch 3
We have a new Sketch course currently in the works for you… and a Live Lesson to follow soon after. We’ll keep you posted.

UPCOMING BOOKS AND COURSES

User Interface Design with Sketch 3 | Course
Design your next User Interface with Sketch 3, a fan favourite amongst designers.