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Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics [Paperback]

Jennifer Niederst Robbins (Author)
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Publication Date: 17 July 2007 | ISBN-10: 0596527527 | ISBN-13: 978-0596527525 | Edition: 3

Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. Learning Web Design starts from the beginning -- defining how the Web and web pages work -- and builds from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you'll know how to get your pages up on the Web.

This thoroughly revised edition teaches you how to build web sites according to modern design practices and professional standards. Learning Web Design explains:

  • How to create a simple (X)HTML page, how to add links and images
  • Everything you need to know about web standards -- (X)HTML, DTDs, and more
  • Cascading Style Sheets -- formatting text, colors and backgrounds, using the box model, page layout, and more
  • All about web graphics, and how to make them lean and mean through optimization
  • The site development process, from start to finish
  • Getting your pages on the Web -- hosting, domain names, and FTP
The book includes exercises to help you to learn various techniques, and short quizzes to make sure you're up to speed with key concepts. If you're interested in web design, Learning Web Design is the place to start.

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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 3 edition (17 July 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596527527
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596527525
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 2 x 24.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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"If you need to learn HTML, or XHTML, or CSS, I can't imagine a clearer text than this book." -- Conrad J. Obregon, Nikonians.org, October 2007

About the Author

Jennifer Niederst Robbins was one of the first designers for the Web. As the designer of O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site, she has been designing for the Web since 1993. She is the author of the bestselling "Web Design in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly), and has taught web design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and Johnson and Wales University in Providence. She has spoken at major design and Internet events including SXSW Interactive, Seybold Seminars, the GRAFILL conference (Geilo, Norway), and one of the first W3C International Expos.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Dunno what this long winded guy is talking about 27 Sep 2008
By Jay
Format:Paperback
I found this book on the internet through a friend who sent me the ebook. I started reading it and then eventually went out and went and bought the book. I found that it had a very clear way of explaining how CSS works a thing which has been keeping me out of designing websites for quite a while. The author delivers a methodical instruction to exactly how all the components of a website are brought together and what the different roles are between CSS and HTML. She also really manages to expound the principles of good design which will allow the reader to write website that will be easily accessible to users with disabilities. I found it quite a joy to read and felt that while this isn't really a book to be read cover to cover it works very well if one consumes it in bite sized pieces ensuring that one fully understands each part before plowing on forward.

In all I really enjoyed learning from this book and would highly recommend it for people out there who know a little about the web and are interested in building their own web pages.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Learning Web Desgin - Highly Recommended 9 Mar 2009
By Camion
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This is an excellent book for anyone wishing to learn (X)HTML, or wishing to bring their skills up to date. There are 21 chapters, broken down into five sections, `Getting Started', `HTML Markup for Structure', `CSS For Presentation', `Creating Web Graphics' and `From Start to Finish'. The structure of the book is such that each page throughout the book has side boxes, or notes which contain key facts and tips relevant to that particular piece of text. The writing style is concise, easy to read and moves at a pleasant pace. At the end of each chapter there are Exercises to do that let you try out new skills and help ensure a full understanding of the topic covered. Highly recommended.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Maybe not for complete beginners but very useful 5 Feb 2009
By Sarah
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I borrowed this book from my university and am finding it very useful and have ordered a copy of my own. I would agree with one of the other reviewers that it isn't suitable for complete beginners but would suit people who have a basic understanding of web design. I find that this book covers everything a professional designer needs to know to start off with and is well written and easy to follow.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Particularly useful for making the change from HTML to XHTML 12 Oct 2008
By Dr. Rajan Bowri
Format:Paperback
I agree, I'm not sure why the first reviewer spent so much time and effort. This is a well put together, beautifully presented book. If you put in the effort, it will reward you with the ability to write modern, standards-compliant and accessible web pages, using (X)HTML and CSS.
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35 of 43 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars NOT for beginners, horribly written, but nonetheless quite helpful for some 12 Jun 2008
By Cookies
Format:Paperback
This book earns 1 star (utterly useless) because it's marketed as a book "for beginners." If you're truly a beginner, you won't understand a word of it. If you already have a (very) basic grasp of HTML, XHTML, CSS, and internet vocabulary and concepts, however, I'd tell you this book deserves 3 stars. For a non-beginner, the book contains extremely valuable information and direction, but is written so badly I almost can't understand how a professional publishing company would publish it.

First, the problems for a beginner:
(1) The book uses web-design specific vocabulary even before the terms have been explained. For example, the phrase "HTML and style sheets" several times in the first chapter (when I first bought the book I had no idea what either HTML or a style sheet was), most comically at the end of a paragraph which states that "The process of writing HTML and style sheet documents is commonly referred to as authoring..." The very NEXT paragraph opens with the sentence "The people who handle production need to have an intricate knowledge of HTML (the markup language used to make web documents) ..." Which writing instructor in the world wouldn't tell the author that the parenthetical part of the second sentence should actually be part of the p-r-e-c-e-d-i-n-g sentence? Or better yet, included in the first sentence in the book which contains the acronym HTML?

???

(This doesn't address the fact that anybody who doesn't already understand what HTML is most likely doesn't understand the phrase "markup language" either.)

If this glitch were exceptional it would be one thing. But the whole book reads like this.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome buy! 27 Aug 2012
By Kecu
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I've recently tried to get into web design (especially graphic design), and after researching into a lot of different beginner's books, I chose this one. I found that the author, Jennifer, wrote it as though she speaks to you as a student rather than an expert, and she wrote it as though she speaks to you, rather than everyone. Personally, this helps me to learn things faster immensely. I'm still only in the first couple of chapters, but I have flicked through a lot of the pages, so I can give a slight explanation as to what to expect. At the beginning, Jennifer openly admits that this book is aimed more towards graphic design than any of the other disciplines in web design, but she also gives good suggestions as to what equipment you'd need (on both a professional and hobbyist level, and from inexpensive to industry level). Another thing I like is that she doesn't just chuck you into web design; she'll give you explanations as to where the Web came from, what abbreviated terms such as HTML and CSS stand for and she places tests in areas to make sure you have subjects based on that chapter to revise. She also informs you as to what tasks and talents you should expect to do and have within each field of the web design industry. As the book delves in further, she explains much of the differences between using, say, GIF & JPEG and how design can influence both your customer's mind and your computer's data. Overall, it's a great book for my needs!
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