Learning Web Design by Jennifer Niederst

Learning Web Design by Jennifer Niederst

Here, 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 this 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. The book: 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 colour 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.It provides dozens of Web design do and don'ts, to help you make good Web design decisions and avoid common beginner traps and contains hands-on exercises throughout the book that allow you to try out new techniques along the way. "Learning Web Design" should 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".

"I do like this bookI liked the first edition, and I liked the author's other books. They are models of what textbooks should be: clear, concise, nice to look at, useful and correct. ... If you know someone who wants to get started with designing websites and wants to progress quickly and reasonable far, this title is definitely for them. Get people who design bad websites to read it to, we can hope." - Lindsay Marshall, news@UK, December 2003

Jennifer Niederst is creative director of Songline Studios, publishers of innovative online products. She began designing documents for the World Wide Web in mid-1993 as the original designer of the identity, interface, and graphics for Global Network Navigator (GNN), published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Prior to her life online, Jennifer worked as a book designer for O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., and Little, Brown & Company. She has also worked as a freelance graphic designer. She attended the University of Notre Dame where she received a BFA in design and photography and a BA in art history.

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ISBN 13	9780596004842
ISBN 10	0596004842
Title	Learning Web Design
Author	Jennifer Niederst
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	O'Reilly Media
Year published	2003-07-29
Number of pages	455
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