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Designing for the Web |
Designing for the Web: Getting Started in a New Medium gives you the basics you'll need to make the transition to Web page design. It is geared toward designers who need to hit the ground running. This book won't teach you how to design. Instead, its aim is to give you the information you need to adapt your skills to the Web. It's a quick-start guide to introduce you to the Web and the unique considerations of Web design. Although the book is aimed at designers, the techniques in this book are useful to anyone who wants to put graphics online. In this book you'll find:- A brief introduction to the Web
- A step-by-step tutorial on putting together a Web page from scratch
- Pointers on creating graphics that are optimized for the Web
- Recommendations for reducing download times of images
- Instructions for transparency and interlacing to Web graphics
- A discussion of the impact of different browsers and platforms on your design
- A listing and demonstration of the HTML tags used for design
- Tips on using background images and colors in Web pages
- Guidelines on navigational and orientation aids, and on conceptualizing your Web site as a whole
Designing for the Web is written by designers who were pioneers on the Web. Accumulating the basic facts and special tricks for effective Web design was a slow, gradual process. This is the book they wish they had when they were just starting out: one that would quickly teach them the lay of the land, so they could concentrate on what they enjoyed doing most -- designing!
A handsome and practical book, chock-full of useful tricks and tips for WWW graphics design, Although the book was created for already-experienced graphics designers moving to the Web medium, there's plenty of good information for novices as well. This book is especially strong in helping you solve the mysteries of working with transparency, interlacing, imagemaps, and bit-depths to create effective and compact images that work on the web. Recommended!
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Publisher:
O'Reilly
Author:
Jennifer Niederst
Release Date: 1996-04
ISBN/EAN: 1565921658 / 9781565921658
New Price: $2.74 /
Used Price: $0.01 /
Collectible Price: $24.95
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Average Rating: 5.0
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| 5 star | Rating: | | i am Happy to see the site, i cannat spellwords, sorry nithyanandan | | Total Votes: 5, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2001-03-06 | | | | A great book for beginners to Web design | Rating: | | I found this book by accident in the library when I was starting the process of designing our office's web site. Because I was a rank beginner to the world of web design (although I knew the PC, Windows 98, Microsoft Office, FrameMaker, PageMaker and a little Photoshop), I needed some hand-holding to get my feet wet. This book was better than anything else I found for that task. There are other web design books I like (like Roger Black's book on Adobe Press) but this is the best one I have seen for the person who literally knows nothing about the topic.Yes, it was written in 1996 and is somewhat dated for the person who wants to be cutting edge, but you have to crawl before you can run, and this book got me through the crawling stage so I could start to feel comfortable with the concepts I would need to work with my Adobe (and now Macromedia) software. The writing style is crisp and clean and right to the point. I read it in three hours. Try this book if you don't know anything about web design, then take a look at Roger Black for one designer's viewpoint on design issues. Once you have those two books under your belt, the author's latest book, Web Design in a Nutshell, would be a great next step. | | Total Votes: 5, Helpful Votes: 5, Date: 1999-01-10 | | | | Great book on web graphics concepts and fundamentals... | Rating: | | I found this book to be a great way to become familiar with the range of issues that come to bear on incorporating graphics into a web page. Despite the exclusive use of Photoshop in the examples, the concepts are explained in such a way that makes it easy to identify the same graphic-editing techniques needed to be used with other software such as Paint Shop Pro, my graphic editor of choice. Good clear explanations and excellent examples do a great job of illustrating how "tweaking" things like the color depth and color pallete affect file sizes, download times, and picture quality. Originally, I kept renewing this book from my local library until I finally just bought my own copy. A great book! | | Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 1998-08-27 | | | | A great inexpensive book to get you started in web design | Rating:  | | Although the book is oriented around Photoshop on the Mac (which is even better if you use a Mac), the concepts are universal. The book is visually pleasing, very informative (especially on graphic formats), and an inexpensive way to get started | | Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 1997-03-26 | | | | A fine book | Rating: | | The book is deceptive. The author makes it seem simple. In fact she packs in a lot of very cogent points whilst retaining a friendly style.Great for anyone starting out in graphics for the Web (though it does more or less assume you will be using Photoshop). | | Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 1997-02-19 | | |
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