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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. "I buy this book as an introduction to web design, I wanted to learn HTML, CSS, and a well-rounded knowledge about the subject. 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."
Clear explanations that take you step by step through some concepts that were new to me. Sections II (HTML) and III (CSS) were the most informative, for me. 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. 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. 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.
This was the only book that explained what dithering actually does while preparing photos in photoshop. This was the one & only book that covered off how ID & Class attributes worked when assigned to Div tags. 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. 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. 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. This book does it beautifully. I chose this book above all others.
Usually I'd just play around with the settings and have an educated guess. 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. I was absolutely clear how tags are written as an element and how they get nested together. I was struggling to grasp the difference between these two attributes. The visuals are perfectly spot on too. She's covered off the key subjects perfectly with just the right amount of professionalism.
This book finally cleared this up for me.
You want to learn XHTML & CSS.
These are totally separate subjects that have no place in a book about HTML.
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.
The first book that gets it absolutely right.
I felt as if I was being taught in her own class.
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 had unanswered questions about the HTML Div tag for example.
The entire subject of XHTML & CSS is covered exactly the way a professional web developer needs.
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 first half of the book teaches basic HTML and the second half of the book expands on that to teach you about CSS. This is one of the only required texts I have read all the way through. I just copied and pasted code from other forums and figured out what I needed to change to make things work. I have dabbled in a bit of web design before, but never knew exactly what I was doing. I recently took a web/interactive design course at my university, and this was the required text for the class. DEFINITELY a MUST if you are a beginner web designer or need a good reference book.
The author doesn't bog the reader down with overly complex examples of code. I've always created my content in Photoshop and just dropped the images into the software.
I never had to do that with the Learning Web Design book. Right now, I am now trudging through a book to learn JavaScript.
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. 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 felt the need to express how well written this book is for the beginning web designer. I've been designing web pages using Dreamweaver for a few years now and never bothered with the code.
I am getting through the book, but not nearly as easily as I did the Learning Web Design book.
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