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In Learning Web Design, 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 the 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. Unlike other beginner books, Learning Web Design leaves no holes in your education. It gives you everything you need to create basic web sites and will … More >>
Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond
June 29th, 2010 at 10:21 am
The reviewer/teacher that posted on April 11, 2001 is right on the mark. This book says nothing on Forms. However, it is a good book explaining the ins-out of the rest of the stuff to a degree. But I feel it spends too much time on hypothetical questioning & marketing your pages, which is good I suppose but a waste of time when most of what she says is common sense. I already knew HTML before going into this book & it shows some new helpers that weren’t there before. She doesn’t address the pitfalls of many HTML situations like nested tables or backgrounds in cells in nested tables in older browsers (well not that old). The publishing company QUE wrote a book on HTML and it was much better. The whole HTML/web design coding is changing pretty fast with XML/XHTML, & CSS arrising, this book is no better than QUE’s published 5-7 years ago. I do not recommend this book. Oh yeah one more thing, it has cheap binding, mine is already falling apart!
Rating: 2 / 5
June 29th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
What a great book! Being very new to website design was a little scary, but this book eases the stress – user friendly. Thoroughly recommended. Get out and buy it!
Rating: 4 / 5
June 29th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Excellent writing style made it fun and easy to follow along and actually create a functional website. I made 4 websites by the time I finished the book!
Rating: 5 / 5
June 29th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Never received this item. Seller sent me a letter to refund and let me keep it if it arrives, never got it.
Rating: 1 / 5
June 29th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
For those looking to start web design this is the book to get. It says illustrated but it should say illustrations on every page. Very very illustrated. One of my favorite things about this book is after every chapter(when HTML is disscused)it provides an appendix showing you the html tags you just learned. Useful as a reference. This book does not leave you hanging. It teaches you every thing you need to create and understand basic websites. About half the book introduces you to html tags and the other portion is about web graphics. Jenn’s style of writting is not boring but is often humerous and cozy. I have created 4 websites after reading this book. Buy this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5