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Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond
In Learning Web Design, author Jennifer Niederst shares the knowledge she’s gained from years of web design experience, both as a designer and a teacher. This book starts from the beginning– defining the Internet, the Web, browsers, and URLs — so you don’t need to have any previous knowledge about how the Web works. After reading this book, you’ll have a solid foundation in HTML, graphics, and design principles that you can immediately put to use in creating effective web pages.
In the second edition, Jennifer has updated the book to cover style sheets and reflect current web standards. She has also added exercises that help you to learn various techniques and short quizzes that make sure you’re up to speed with key concepts. The companion CD-ROM contains material for all the exercises in the book, as well as trial versions of Fireworks® MX, and HomeSite™ 5; Adobe ® Photoshop® 7, ImageReady® 7, and BBEdit 7.
Learning Web Design, 2nd Edition:Covers the nuts and bolts of basic HTML and style sheets, with detailed examples of formatting text, adding graphic elements, making links, creating tables and frames, and using color on the Web.Explains whether to use GIFs or JPEGs for different types of images, and includes important tips on optimizing graphics for web delivery.Provides dozens of web design do and don’ts, to help you make good web design decisions and avoid common beginner traps.Contains hands-on exercises throughout the book that allow you to try out new techniques along the way.Unlike other beginner 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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THE beginner’s guide Jennifer Niederst is just the person you want to write a book like this. Many readers of this page will already know who she is, but since this book is aimed at absolute beginners a short introduction may be in order.Originally a graphic designer, in 1993 Niederst became one of the very first web designers when she worked on the world’s first commercial website (O’Reilly & Associates’ Global Network Navigator, which is no longer in publication but you can see samples of it on Niederst’s own website if you want; write me for the URL). Since then she’s been one of the best-known web designers around and she’s written other books on the topic — notably _Web Design in a Nutshell_, which I highly recommend you get as a followup to this one (but wait for the new second edition, due out in October 2001). Since Al Gore didn’t even _invent_ the Internet until 1993, that makes Niederst the nearest thing there is to an “old-timer” in what is, after all, a pretty new…
A good introduction Although I have not plowed through this entire book yet, it is shaping up as one of the books I’ve been looking for to tie up all the different threads that now make up the task of creating a good website. I may never actually create my business website all on my own, but at least I will have familiarity with the various tools that are currently being used so I can intelligently discuss and understand what the professionals are recommending. One of the toughest parts of learning any new technology these days is the constant improvement and changes going on. It’s impossible to guess what may become standard and what may be obsolete by the time I finish the book. Books like this at least give an average person like me a fighting chance to keep as current as possible without continuous formal education.
Want to learn web design? Start here! Maybe just one more favorable review about this excellent web design book. This is the book you need if you want a very good foundation for your web site/page building experience. Starting with the basics such as beginning HTML coding (even if you never coded before) to pop-ups, the author carefully walks the reader through many of the complexities of good web design. Examples using Dreamweaver, GoLive, and Frontpage are helpful (although Adobe’s GoLive 6 which is now available is quite a bit different than the GoLive 4 in the book) if you’re interested in using an advanced design program. After completion of this book you will realize you learned something and didn’t get ripped off.