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Web Design For Dummies?
Get the inside secrets for great looking Web sites that keep customers coming back. Web Design For Dummies covers all the latest Web technologies and tools such as Dreamweaver, Flash, XML, and SMIL. Site design is crucial to attracting and keeping Web visitors to your site. Turn to this friendly guide to discover what makes an attractive Web site. Discover the traps to avoid in Web site design and the keys to a successful Web site.
360 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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January 30, 2020
Zeer interessant boek. Goed leesbaar. Met duidelijke voorbeelden. Dit gaat me zeer goed helpen als achtergrond informatie voor mijn komende studie.
July 17, 2015
Whilst I normally steer clear of this kind of book, I saw it in a local library and thought I'd have a look, thinking there might at least be a few useful tips. Unfortunately, I was not only disappointed on the tips front, but in the general presentation of this book. Like a previous viewer, I was left rather perplexed as to exactly who the book is aimed at. The blurb suggests it is designed for people planning to build professional, rather than personal websites, and yet the content never quite seems to match up. At once Lopuck suggests that when providing designs for clients you should delegate to members of your team (also dummies, presumably?) so that the designs reflect different interpretations of the requirements, and a few pages later, something as mundane as copying and pasting images will be covered.
The book is so riddled with such strange juxtapositions that it really ends up being of very little use to anyone. Real beginners will be sorely disappointed by many of the chapters, which assume either a background in print design, or that the reader is already a member of a web design team (begging the question, why they should be reading a book purportedly for dummies), or perhaps that the reader already owns software such as Dreamweaver, Fireworks or Photoshop. More experienced readers may find a few useful tips, but I should imagine have already covered the key sections of this book elsewhere, and will only be insulted by the more mundane chapters on the vagaries of web adaptive palettes or font types.
The book is so riddled with such strange juxtapositions that it really ends up being of very little use to anyone. Real beginners will be sorely disappointed by many of the chapters, which assume either a background in print design, or that the reader is already a member of a web design team (begging the question, why they should be reading a book purportedly for dummies), or perhaps that the reader already owns software such as Dreamweaver, Fireworks or Photoshop. More experienced readers may find a few useful tips, but I should imagine have already covered the key sections of this book elsewhere, and will only be insulted by the more mundane chapters on the vagaries of web adaptive palettes or font types.
February 12, 2016
I'm reading the third edition, published in 2012. I decided to check this out because I am thinking of getting my own website.
What I take away from this book is that building a website is very complicated and if I want to do it I should probably take a course in it.
It has an interesting section on analyze your goals and your audience in order to tailor your website to them. Chapters 8 and 9 go over graphic design elements such as types of fonts. I especially like chapter 9 which defines various terms such as bitmap, gif, jpeg, vector, etc. I have finished the book now and I feel it gives a good overview of building a website but I would need more training before I would be able to build a website based on the book alone.
What I take away from this book is that building a website is very complicated and if I want to do it I should probably take a course in it.
It has an interesting section on analyze your goals and your audience in order to tailor your website to them. Chapters 8 and 9 go over graphic design elements such as types of fonts. I especially like chapter 9 which defines various terms such as bitmap, gif, jpeg, vector, etc. I have finished the book now and I feel it gives a good overview of building a website but I would need more training before I would be able to build a website based on the book alone.
May 13, 2015
I did enjoy this book and found it to be quite helpful. It is the first I've purchased of the 'Dummies' series and its straight forward talk was easy to absorb and to grasp; although some of the coding suggested within the book (e.g. facebook buttons etc.) did not actually work; I don't know why.
I think I could just be tempted with some more of these type of books.
I think I could just be tempted with some more of these type of books.
October 7, 2011
This book is descent, but a little dated....but the broad ideas were good.
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