Web Design: A Beginner's Guide Second Edition

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McGraw Hill Professional, May 24, 2010 - Computers - 384 pages
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.

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Contents

Designing
59
Coding
173
Going Live
289
HTMLCSS Reference Table
333
Index
355
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2010)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleWeb Design: A Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Beginner's Guide
AuthorWendy Willard
Edition2, illustrated
PublisherMcGraw Hill Professional, 2010
ISBN0071701354, 9780071701358
Length384 pages
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Computers / Internet / Web Programming
  
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