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Essential Skills--Made Easy
Create professional-quality web sites in no time with help from hands-on tutorials. Fully updated to cover the latest technologies and techniques, Web Design: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, explains how to analyze site requirements and create a web-development proposal to plan and document your project. You'll learn how to design an attractive, easy-to-use web site, focusing on key issues such as color, layout, navigation, typography, and images. Discover how to incorporate JavaScript, cascading style sheets (CSS), HTML/XHTML, Flash, and more to take your design from mockup to code. Boosting web site traffic through search engine optimization, e-mail design, and online advertising is also covered in this fast-paced guide.
Designed for Easy Learning Key Skills & Concepts--Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter Ask the Expert--Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered Tips--Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things Annotated Syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated
Ready-to-use code at www.mhprofessional.com/computingdownload
Wendy Willard is a designer, consultant, writer, and educator who has been involved in web design for more than 13 years. She is the author of HTML: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition, and other books.
Synopsis
An easy-to-use guide to the latest web design tools and techniques Fully updated to cover new and emerging web design technologies and trends, this new edition teaches the fundamental skills and concepts of web design through tutorials, hands-on exercises, and integrated projects. The book is filled with tips for designing web pages from concept to completion. Expert advice from industry professionals take you beyond the "how to" and into the "why" of common web design practices.
Web Design: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition features:
- Step-by-step details on how to create a successful design mockup, take it apart, and begin coding
- Tutorials in web design using HTML and CSS, the two most widely used and supported coding methods on the web
- Techniques for integrating multimedia such as audio, video, and animation
- Best practices for ensuring that sites are standards-compliant and will display correctly in all major browsers
- Instructions on how to test and deploy completed designs
Learn essential web design skills:
Planning; Beginning the Design Process; Preparing for Production; Producing the Design; Getting Started with the Code; Styling Content; Positioning Content; Integrating Dynamic Content; Editing Blog Templates; Testing and Deployment; Publishing Content; Advertising Your Site; Maintaining Your Site
Synopsis
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Essential Skills--Made Easy
Create professional-quality web sites in no time with help from hands-on tutorials. Fully updated to cover the latest technologies and techniques, Web Design: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, explains how to analyze site requirements and create a web-development proposal to plan and document your project. You'll learn how to design an attractive, easy-to-use web site, focusing on key issues such as color, layout, navigation, typography, and images. Discover how to incorporate JavaScript, cascading style sheets (CSS), HTML/XHTML, Flash, and more to take your design from mockup to code. Boosting web site traffic through search engine optimization, e-mail design, and online advertising is also covered in this fast-paced guide.
Designed for Easy Learning
- Key Skills & Concepts--Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
- Ask the Expert--Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips
- Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered
- Tips--Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
- Annotated Syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated
Wendy Willard is a designer, consultant, writer, and educator who has been involved in web design for more than 13 years. She is the author of HTML: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition, and other books.
About the Author
Wendy Willard is an accomplished professional with more than 13 years of experience in all aspects of design, including publication, print, and web design. She is the author of the bestseller, HTML: A Beginner's Guide, now in its fourth edition, and has written additional books and articles on the topics of Photoshop, web design, and Mac OS.
Table of Contents
Part I: Planning;
Chapter 1. Asking the Right Questions;
Chapter 2. Formulating the Answers;
Part II: Designing;
Chapter 3. Beginning the Design Process;
Chapter 4. Preparing for Production (non-Flash pages);
Chapter 5. Producing the Design;
Part III: Coding;
Chapter 6. Getting Started with the Code;
Chapter 7. Styling Content;
Chapter 8. Positioning Content;
Chapter 9. Integrating Dynamic Content;
Chapter 10. Editing Blog Templates;
Part IV: Testing and Deployment;
Chapter 11. Publishing Content;
Chapter 12. Advertising Your Site;
Chapter 13. Maintaining Your Site;
Part V: Appendixes