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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:
ExcellentReviewed by Maria Eugenia, 2010-02-10
"I buy this book as an introduction to web design, I wanted to
learn HTML, CSS, and a well-rounded knowledge about the subject.
And the book provides that, plus a solid base of what is a good and
accessible web site, setting your mind in a neat and professional
style with good practices.
It has a lot of references to find help, knowledge and resources in
the web. It is very easy to follow, and it presents good examples
and practice exercises.
It is not an advanced book, but when you finish it, you will be
ready to do many things and continue to learn by your own with the
resources it mentions.
For me it was a solid start point."
This book deserves the 5-star rating it's been getting!Reviewed by K. Deonaraine, 2010-02-04
For a person who has been doing some web designing for not that
long, this book was a real eye opener. I liked that the chapters
got to the point and took you through the material without assuming
*too* much, but also without sacrificing thoroughness.
Sections II (HTML) and III (CSS) were the most informative, for me.
Clear explanations that take you step by step through some concepts
that were new to me. Section III was the least useful, for me:
designing web graphics using Photoshop seemed a bit daunting, I
simply use GRSites for making all the graphics which works well,
but I'm sure I'll come back to this part of the book go over it
slowly eventually. Section I and IV were good too, in that they
give useful overviews of web design in general, and the mechanics
of getting your site hosted, and other details that I didn't
realize initially were even relevant.
Well written!
Best HTML & CSS book by far.Reviewed by J. Pelagides, 2010-02-04
I've spent time reading through several other popular books that
cover HTML & CSS and this book gives just the right level of
detail. I chose this book above all others. You want to learn XHTML
& CSS? This book does it beautifully. While other books assume
you're an absolute beginner and painstakingly cover off topics that
are way to basic; others go off tangent and describe SEO & web
marketing. These are totally separate subjects that have no place
in a book about HTML. I had unanswered questions about the HTML Div
tag for example. This was the one & only book that covered off
how ID & Class attributes worked when assigned to Div tags. I
was struggling to grasp the difference between these two
attributes. This book finally cleared this up for me. Now when I
look at my XHTML code in Dreamweaver CS4 I know exactly what's
going on.
I never really understood which settings were best when optimizing
images for the web. Usually I'd just play around with the settings
and have an educated guess. This was the only book that explained
what dithering actually does while preparing photos in photoshop.
Most other tutorials teach you to simply "play around" and see what
happens when saving images for the web. Here you're given an
absolute clear explanation of exactly when & where to use
dithering along with all the other image optimization settings. The
entire subject of XHTML & CSS is covered exactly the way a
professional web developer needs. The visuals are perfectly spot on
too. While getting my head around HTML elements had been a little
confusing, the chapter here included the exact right diagram to
help with the explanation. I was absolutely clear how tags are
written as an element and how they get nested together. It's one of
the few books that's written in a concise manner.
It's clear that this author has worked closely with students and
taught classes. She's covered off the key subjects perfectly with
just the right amount of professionalism. I felt as if I was being
taught in her own class. The first book that gets it absolutely
right!
Best web design book yet !Reviewed by Taylor T., 2010-01-23
I have dabbled in a bit of web design before, but never knew exactly what I was doing. I just copied and pasted code from other forums and figured out what I needed to change to make things work. I recently took a web/interactive design course at my university, and this was the required text for the class. This is one of the only required texts I have read all the way through. The first half of the book teaches basic HTML and the second half of the book expands on that to teach you about CSS. DEFINITELY a MUST if you are a beginner web designer or need a good reference book. I have checked out other HTML/CSS books, and none of them really made sense to me. This book has several pictures, tutorials, tips, and recommended links that really helped me understand the fundamentals of web design.
The perfect book for the beginnerReviewed by dennisd, 2009-11-13
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.
