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Web Design All-in-One For Dummies

Author: Sue Jenkins | Language: English | ISBN: 1118404106 | Format: PDF

Web Design All-in-One For Dummies Description

All you need to know on web design in a thorough new edition

If you want just one complete reference on web design, this book is it. The newest edition of this essential guide features 650+ pages on the latest tools and new web design standards, such as HTML5, CSS 3, and other core technologies and page-building strategies. Five minibooks provide deep coverage: essential pre-design considerations, how to establish the look of your site, building a site, how to test your site, and taking your site public. Design professional and author Sue Jenkins understands what designers need and gives you the answers.

Thorough revision brings you up to date on the latest changes in the world of web design
Features five minibooks that cover all the bases: Getting Started, Designing for the Web, Building the Site, Standards and Testing, and Publishing and Site Maintenance
Covers the latest tools, page-building strategies, and emerging technologies, such as HTML5 and CSS 3
Includes over 650 pages of detail on such topics as establishing audience focus, creating content, using mock-ups and storyboards to establish the look, how to design for text and images, testing your site, and more

If you're looking for an in-depth reference on all aspects of designing and building a site and taking it live, Web Design All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition is the book.

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Paperback: 688 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 2 edition (January 22, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1118404106
ISBN-13: 978-1118404102
Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.2 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Introduction 1

Book I: Getting Started 7

Chapter 1: Starting with a Plan 9

Chapter 2: Defining the Audience 29

Chapter 3: Gathering Content 49

Chapter 4: Choosing the Right Tools 79

Chapter 5: Attracting Visitors to Your Site 111

Book II: Designing for the Web 125

Chapter 1: Defi ning the Look and Feel 127

Chapter 2: Mocking Up the Design 155

Chapter 3: Slicing and Optimizing Web Graphics 175

Book III: Building Websites 205

Chapter 1: Adding Text, Images, and Links 207

Chapter 2: Organizing Content with Tables and Lists 251

Chapter 3: Styling with Cascading Style Sheets 273

Chapter 4: Understanding CSS Style Properties 309

Chapter 5: Creating Web Layouts 351

Chapter 6: Constructing Navigation Systems 375

Chapter 7: Building Web Forms 405

Chapter 8: Making Your Pages Interactive 437

Chapter 9: Making Websites with Templates and Server-Side Includes 479

Book IV: Web Standards and Testing 505

Chapter 1: Following Web Standards 507

Chapter 2: Testing, Accessibility, Compliance, and Validation 531

Book V: Publishing and Site Maintenance 563

Chapter 1: Domain Registration and Hosting 565

Chapter 2: Publishing Your Site 593

Chapter 3: Search Engine Optimization and Site Maintenance 613

Index 641

This book is a must have for a web designer's reference library. It takes you through the entire process of website development from the planning stages to the publishing stages. It is also divided in a way that you can read the book from start to finish, or you can look up specific areas of interest and go right to it. There are plenty of examples, pictures, links, and lessons available that help to grasp the message. The author is not only extremely knowledgable about web design, but also gives great advice for dealing with current/future clients as well.

All of this being said, I feel I should point out some of the things I thought the book was lacking. First of all it is a great introduction to web design for beginners, but it is not a step by step guide you can follow and have a site built by the end of the book. It is more of a list of tools and knowledge that you will gain to make your own creative site at a later time. Second, while the book is geared towards using Adobe Deamweaver and Photoshop to make your website, it does not teach you how to use the actual software. It occasionally gives tips on how to use certain functions of the Adobe programs, but not much more. Finally, I really wish the author would have tied all of her examples together at the end and shown a completed website's coding and the physical appearance. It would have been nice to see how everything looks all put together, instead of little bits across the chapters.

If you are brand spanking new to the world of design, this book will be a valuable asset in the future of your work. It will not teach you all of the basic knowledge required to use the things learned in the book though. I would say this is really more for intermediate to advanced designers.

This is a great book. While I am not looking to enter into the web design business and am just looking to build a site for myself, I have learned tons from it.

The early part of the book starts off with a discussion of the business aspects of web design & development side by side with the actual design aspects. On the business side you will see discussed such things like having a statement of purpose (IMO very important), doing informal marketing research, hiring free-lancers or copywriters, getting royalty-free vs. rights-managed stock images, publicity, visitors to your websites, shopping carts and so on. For all of this Jenkins provides good information and a host of links to sites where you can do follow-up if you want to. On the design side you will see discussed wireframes, sitemaps, image formats, color optimization, mockups, image slicing and so on.

As the book moves forwards, it develops more into a discussion of the basic code that you use to build a website, viz. HTML & CSS. Other issues such as responsive design and mobile are also discussed here.

The books ends with discussions of more technical coding aspects (to me anyway) such as JavaScript, jQuery, testing, code cleanup, roll-over effects, etc. and how to go about actually getting a website set up (DNS registration, ftp, etc.). Note one thing - while the new tags that come with HTML5 (e.g. <article>, <section>, <header>, etc.) are discussed, they are not discussed in depth.

I found the book to be very readable. It really is for dummies. The book is also very comprehensive. Jenkins really knows her stuff. She has her finger exhaustively in every aspect of the web design process. Added to all of that she gives a lot of good resources for follow up.

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