| Book by Category | |  | Business & Culture | Home » » Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics | | | | | | | Description: | | Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. Learning Web Design starts from the beginning -- defining how the Web and web pages work -- and builds from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you'll know how to get your pages up on the Web. This thoroughly revised edition teaches you how to build web sites according to modern design practices and professional standards. Learning Web Design explains: - How to create a simple (X)HTML page, how to add links and images
- Everything you need to know about web standards -- (X)HTML, DTDs, and more
- Cascading Style Sheets -- formatting text, colors and backgrounds, using the box model, page layout, and more
- All about web graphics, and how to make them lean and mean through optimization
- The site development process, from start to finish
- Getting your pages on the Web -- hosting, domain names, and FTP
The book includes exercises to help you to learn various techniques, and short quizzes to make sure you're up to speed with key concepts. If you're interested in web design, Learning Web Design is the place to start.
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• ISBN13: 9780596527525
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Jennifer Niederst Robbins | | Paperback:
| 479 pages | | Publisher:
| O'Reilly Media | | Publication Date:
| June 15, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0596527527 | | Package Length:
| 9.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 59 reviews |
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 The perfect book for the beginnerNov 13, 2009
I felt the need to express how well written this book is for the beginning web designer. The author doesn't bog the reader down with overly complex examples of code. I've been designing web pages using Dreamweaver for a few years now and never bothered with the code. I've always created my content in Photoshop and just dropped the images into the software. After reading through this book, I am not only able to simplify my web pages through code editing, but also, was able to optimize my graphics content.
Right now, I am now trudging through a book to learn JavaScript. I am getting through the book, but not nearly as easily as I did the Learning Web Design book. To be fair, the subject is a bit more complex, but the way that the JavaScript book is written causes me to have to constantly look up unexplained technical terms and syntax of the code examples to figure out why they work. I never had to do that with the Learning Web Design book.
Best Discussion of the WHY of CSS positioning and layouts.Oct 14, 2009
This is an excellent book on Web design and covers everything from where to start, to how the browser does request/response protocols (in a very comfortable visual way) to Web Graphics.
However, the price of the book was worth the section on CSS!
I have been beating my head against a wall trying to understand how CSS layouts actually work and how positions, floats and web page flow works. It seems very inconsistent and confusing. But the CSS section has great examples to describe how CSS 2.x works, how block and in-line elements flow, how element types effect eachother in the flow and it has GREAT exercises and experiments to help the reader understand what is happening. The author also goes into the quirks between browsers and how the different browsers handle CSS differently.
This book doesn't do like so many other books and just give one patterns to copy without an understanding of what is happening. To me, this book would be worth it for just the CSS Section.
I have also enjoyed the section on Web Graphics and how browsers handle them. Great book.
Web site HTMl developmentOct 08, 2009
This book is excellent. It's an elementary textbook on HTML that is really thorouh. The author's approce is straightforward for novices, and included enough detail to be a valuable review for experienced site developers.
Easily Followed and UnderstoodSep 28, 2009
This book is amazing! There is beginning background information and takes small steps to ensure you understand how and why you do certain things in regards to designing a web page. It offers many resources and links to more information for those who want to get more technical. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in designing a web page!
AmazingSep 02, 2009
I really liked this book,really covers all beginner stuff and not a techinacal book only, also introduces the trends of web desing,guiding you if you want to go on deeper any part of web desing.
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