- Paperback: 640 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (25 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0596001967
- ISBN-13: 978-0596001964
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15.2 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 427,896 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Web Design in a Nutshell is the welcome second edition of a classic Web authoring guide. It is aimed at professionals, with the focus sharply on page layout rather than scripting or programming. Two things are outstanding. First, the book is a handy reference for core Web standards like HTML tags, character entities, MIME types and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Second, and most important, the author offers concise, meticulous explanations and comments on key topics including the various different approaches to text formatting, choosing and optimising image types, and getting good results from tables. She highlights the importance of Web standards, and is careful to include Macintosh as well as Windows issues when discussing design tools or compatibility matters. Reference information is up-to-date as of Internet Explorer 5.5 and Netscape 6.0.
The early chapters offer general introduction to the Web environment, laying down basic design principles and covering tricky issues like printing and internationalisation. The next part covers formatting and layout with HTML, hyperlinks, tables, frames, forms and CSS. Part three is an in-depth look at images, particularly JPEG, GIG, PNG, and colour usage. Multimedia comes next, featuring video and audio formats as well as Flash movies, while the final part introduces other technologies such as Javascript and Dynamic HTML, XML, XHTML and WAP. These overviews are useful, but the best chapters are those that cover the nitty-gritty of setting out a page. It is ideal for print designers who need to understand Web design, or as a reliable general-purpose handbook for Web authors. --Tim Anderson
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'This book should find its way on to the desk of anyone actively involved in web design, where I would expect it to become well used.' PING, December 2001 'If you were only going to buy one book on web design, this would have to be it.' - Daf Tregear, news@ukuug
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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A thorough guide to html (1st edition),
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This review is from: Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) (Paperback)
This is one book that I use every day - provided I can extract it from the fingers of my cow-orkers who keep borrowing it ! Every tag is described in depth, and it is one of the few books I've come across that describes CSS in a meaningful way.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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O'Reilly come up trumps again,
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This review is from: Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) (Paperback)
The ever-excellent O'Reilly hit the spot again with this comprehensive but concise reference.You'll need to have some html experience to get into this, but it does what O'Reilly do so well - explain something simply without assuming that you are a "Dummy". Works both as a tutorial and a reference. Invaluable for anyone who understands a little bit about how html works (and CSS etc) but can't remember all the tags and attributes off the top of their heads. Buy it now.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Ultimate Web Design Reference,
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This review is from: Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) (Paperback)
This book is excellent if you're new to web design because it incorporates and expands on all the vital aspects of web design you'll need to familiarize yourself with. However, bare in mind it was written with quick reference in mind rather then step-by-step guidance. There's only one problem with these sort of books; The web and the technology behind it evolve and change very quickly. The second edition of this book was written back in 2001 and there are already parts of the books that need updating. Overall, This is an excellent book and should be owned by all web designers.
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