Web Design For Dummies

by Lisa Lopuck

How many times have you visited a Web site and thought that you could do a better job if only you had the knowledge and skills? Or perhaps you have a great idea for a Web site but don't know how to get started? What was once exclusively a task for professionals, Web designing, has become more accessible to amateurs, thanks to loads of handy software. With "Web Design For Dummies," you will be able to design your own Web site like a pro.Web design requires many programs to make a Website attractive and fun, including: Using Web editors like DreamweaverImage editing tools like Photoshop elementsDrawing utensils like IllustratorBackground markup and scripting languages like HTML and CSS

This fun guide covers all of the topics that every aspiring Web designer should know. This book offers advice on: Designing for your audienceBuilding a solid framework for easy navigationCreating appealing graphics that work with the siteChoosing the proper type and colorsTweaking the HTML to make everything work correctlyApplying next-step technologies including JavaScriptParlaying your skills into paid work

With expert guidance from Lisa Lopuck, a pioneer in interactive media design and the Senior Producer at Disney, you will be creating superb Web pages that will charm and impress all of your visitors

Genres: Nonfiction, Computers, Business, Web, Reference

659 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[PD Storage · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Kim Cl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Zeer interessant boek. Goed leesbaar. Met duidelijke voorbeelden. Dit gaat me zeer goed helpen als achtergrond informatie voor mijn komende studie.

[Fips · Rating 1 out of 5]

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.

[SallyStenger · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[Ian King · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Adam · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is descent, but a little dated....but the broad ideas were good.