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Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide
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ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR FIRST-TIME DESIGNERS: Learn the basics of Web design from the tutorials and examples in this easy-to-follow, project-based guide. Web design expert Wendy Willard takes you on a tour of the essentials of Web design, from analyzing your needs and planning your site to the nuts and bolts of page development with text, graphics, tables, frames, forms, scripts, and multimedia. You’ll also learn Web authoring technologies like JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML/XHTML, and more. If you want to get started creating effective and efficient Web sites right away, this is the ideal self-paced learning tool for you.
From the Author
When I began work on this book, I performed a search of Amazon. com for the phrase “Web Design. ” I found books on everything from HTML to XML, and from Web graphics to Web usability. What is the beginning reader supposed to think? Where should she begin in this huge list of possibilities? With a “beginner’s guide”, of course. This book covers a lot of ground in a short amount of time. It is an excellent way to discover everything from HTML to XML and from Web graphics to Web usability — ALL of which are important to Web design — without having to read a million different books. The book covers all these topics in a succinct fashion, moving you from the beginning to end while you work on a real-world project. With that said, this is neither “the second book in a series” or a series in itself. Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide is an introduction into all of the facets of the extensive topic of Web Design. So you don’t have to read other books on the topic before reading this one, but you can expect to read other books after this one. The idea is that this book might help you determine where you’d like to focus your efforts in Web design and development. If you’re looking for a well-rounded book to aid in your discovery of this medium and get you started quickly on the right track, this is it.
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I taught a Web design course in which I used both of Wendy Willard’s books (Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide and HTML: A Beginner’s Guide). There is overlap, of course, but the pair worked quite well as a tandem. In fact, the students gave me a lot of positive feedback on the books. We focused on the Web Design book and used the HTML book primarily as a reference. Web Design is a very straightforward presentation of design fundamentals. It was refreshing to find in the book so many bits of design advice that I have pedaled. Moreover, the writing is lively and concise. The publisher makes available a CD-ROM that contains PowerPoint lectures, a test bank, and an instructor’s manual. I can’t comment on the test bank — I seldom use them — but I found the lectures to be useful as starting points for my own in-class presentations. The book would be improved by more depth in topics such as navigation, information architecture, and usability. Navigation is mentioned but probably warrants its own chapter in a Web design book. In sum, this is a very good book for a first course in Web design.
I am a graphic designer with firm roots in print design–getting into design for the Web has been a daunting prospect. This book is incredibly easy to understand and perfect for an absolute beginner like myself. It provides an excellent jumping-off point into more advanced design and production strategies, even if you are using a WYSIWYG Web page editor. I have been told time and again that even while using a graphical editor like Adobe’s GoLive, it is still important to know basic HTML coding–this book even makes HTML approachable! I would recommend it to anyone who is brand new to Web design.
Outstanding book! What a delight to read a book written as well as this book. Great job Wendy! Will be buying your book on HTML coding ASAP!!When will your intermediate Web Design book be out!!