Teach Yourself Visually Web Design

by Rob Huddleston

The mechanics of Web design made easy for visual learnersAn effective Web site combines good graphic design principles with a functional user interface. This colorful, step-by-step guide shows visual learners how to plan, develop, and publish a site, all with easy-to-follow lessons. Each task is illustrated with screen shots accompanied by numbered steps. You'll learn all the tools and techniques for creating great-looking Web sites that users will love.Good Web design incorporates basic graphic design principles as well as the techniques required to make a site easy to navigate and user-friendlyThose who learn best when someone shows them how will quickly get up to speed with the full-color screen shots and step-by-step illustrations in this visual guideCovers planning a site, creating eye-popping content with popular Adobe tools, building in functionality with HTML and CSS, testing the site, taking it live, and keeping it up to dateCompanion Web site features code and design examples for experimentation

If you find learning easier when someone shows you how to do something, you'll quickly learn to build Web sites with "Teach Yourself VISUALLY Web Design."

Genres: Web, Nonfiction, Website Design, Technology, Design

368 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 24, 2010

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

Absolute novices may benefit from this book's introduction to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL, but it's so elementary that it's useless for anyone with any web design experience. Only the essentials of each technology are covered, so one wouldn't even be able to create a site after reading it.

The format is very reader-friendly, as each lesson is 2-4 pages and illustrated with code samples. The code samples are screenshots from Notepad; a color-coded editor with line numbers would have been nicer. It could be useful as a quick reference for beginners.

Adobe applications are heavily represented, and there are several sections dealing with Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and CS5 (Creative Suite 5). Most of the book's lessons are application-agnostic.

The author should get credit for stressing standards-compliance and accessibility, which are often overlooked in web design.

[Rachel]

I would be completely lost without this book. I'm taking an Intro to Web design class for my graduate degree, and if it weren't for the detailed instructions and pictures in this book, I'd never get it right.

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a good first step in setting up a website. It contains good, useful, basic information and is well worth reading.

[Wendy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an engaging text which provides a good basic overview of the technical aspects of Web Design. However, it was too basic to be of much use to me.