Learning Web Design: HTML, Graphics, and Animation

Learning Web Design: HTML, Graphics, and Animation A Beginner's Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond

By Jennifer Niederst Robbins
First Edition March 2001
Pages: 424
ISBN 10: 0-596-00036-7 | ISBN 13: 9780596000363
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In Learning Web Design, Jennifer Niederst shares the knowledge she's gained from years of experience as both web designer and teacher. She starts from the very beginning--defining the Internet, the Web, browsers, and URLs--assuming no previous knowledge of how the Web works. Jennifer helps you build the solid foundation in HTML, graphics, and design principles that you need for crafting effective web pages.
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In Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond, author Jennifer Niederst shares the knowledge she's gained from years of web design experience, both as a designer and as a teacher. This book starts from the very beginning--defining the Internet, the Web, browsers, and URLs--so you don't have to have any previous knowledge about how the Web works. Jennifer helps you build the solid foundation in HTML, graphics, and design principles that you need for crafting effective web pages. She also explains the nature of the medium and unpacks the web design process from conceptualization to the final result. Learning Web Design:

Covers the nuts and bolts of basic HTML, with detailed examples that illustrate how to format text, add graphic elements, make links, create tables and frames, and use color on the Web. In addition to a rundown on each HTML tag, there are tips on using three popular authoring programs: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe GoLive, and Microsoft FrontPage.
Explains whether to use GIFs or JPEGs for different types of images and includes important tips on optimizing graphics for web delivery. The book also demonstrates step-by-step graphics creation using three popular web graphic tools: Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, and JASC Paint Shop Pro.
Offers a tutorial on building usable web sites that covers information design, interface design, and navigation systems.
Provides dozens of web design DOs and DON'Ts, to help you make good web design decisions and avoid common beginner traps.

Unlike other beginning books, Learning Web Design leaves no holes in your education. It gives you everything you need to create basic web sites, and will prepare you for more advanced web work. If you are interested in web design, this book is the place to start. After finishing it, you'll be ready for the author's bestselling companion reference, Web Design in a Nutshell.

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A good basic intro for modern web design, September 10 2006

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Submitted by Anonymous Reader [Respond | View]

It�s a " Basic Guide " step to step, very fine book, you can learn it with style.

Learning Web Design Review, August 27 2001

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Submitted by Bob Hicks [Respond | View]

Why would you write a book about learning web design that doesn't even cover XHTML which is the current standard? Yet another book that promotes bad habits in web design for the sake of making learning simple. Instead "Learning Web Design" should have covered the basics of XHTML and CSS.

Learning Web Design Review, July 31 2001

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Submitted by nomsothea [Respond | View]

It is good for learning web.

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Media reviews "This great book will take you through HTML and all the elements of Web design. It's a beginners guide, but it's great for non-beginners as well. It covers many elements of Web design, from HTML, to graphics, to layout."
--"About Computers," Mar 18, 2003

"Extremely interesting and beneficial. It not only approached the subject from a practitioner's perspective, it presented information in a manner that most users with basic computer and Internet skills can easily grasp and understand. I found the tables, tips, and summations on various pages to be excellent."
--Ralph L. Jordan, CCPCUG, Oct 2002

"I found this book extremely interesting and beneficial. It not only approached the subject from a practitioner's perspective, it presented information in a manner that most users with basic computer and Internet skills can easily grasp and understand. I found the tables, tips, and summations on various pages to be excellent...Highly recommend it for beginners."
--Ralph L. Jordan, Charlotte Bytes, September 2002

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