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Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics
Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. Learning Web Design starts from the beginning -- defining how the Web and web pages work -- and builds from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you'll know how to get your pages up on the Web.
This thoroughly rev...more
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Paperback, 480 pages
Published
June 22nd 2007
by O'Reilly Media
(first published March 8th 2001)
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May 31, 2011
Chad Warner
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This is the most comprehensive book on HTML and CSS I’ve read so far. It reads like a textbook and is quite impersonal, which is a shame because author Jennifer Niederst Robbins has been designing since 1993 and obviously has a lot of experience to share. The book was published in June 2007, so it teaches HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1, and is somewhat dated. Even so, it’s a great introduction to web design principles, HTML, and CSS.
Each chapter includes several exercises and ends with a test,...more
Each chapter includes several exercises and ends with a test,...more
This book and its accompanying website are a great, hands-on way to learn (X)HTML and CSS. The plentiful screenshots and practice exercises made it easy to visual the basic concepts of web design. The only problem is, even though the book was published in 2007, it already shows signs of being dated. Some links are broken, IE5 and IE5.5 are referred to as popular browsers, and there's little discussion of the most modern web trends. Further, it would be great to see some more information on HTML5...more
A good resource for basic XHTML and CSS techniques.
You won't learn how to make super cool, beautiful designs from this book.
There are plenty of excersises throughout this book, which I guess are helpful to beginners.
Tends to get too detailed at places.
The strongest aspect of this book in my opinion is that it follows web standarts and talks about semantics.
If you follow the guidelines in this book you will have a well-formed, standart-compilant, semantically correct, well structured, accessible,...more
You won't learn how to make super cool, beautiful designs from this book.
There are plenty of excersises throughout this book, which I guess are helpful to beginners.
Tends to get too detailed at places.
The strongest aspect of this book in my opinion is that it follows web standarts and talks about semantics.
If you follow the guidelines in this book you will have a well-formed, standart-compilant, semantically correct, well structured, accessible,...more
It took me two months to read it (at over 600 pages), but I finally finished! I bought it as part of an OReilly eBook sale earlier in the year, as I'd been planning to revamp the code I use for the family on-line Advent Calendar. This was perfect for that - my HTML skills were stuck in the mid-nineties, and I'd never got my head round CSS. As this was an overview of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and image manipulation, as well as general web design principles, it fitted well.
This is a very well put tog...more
This is a very well put tog...more
I like how the topics are presented, the examples are real-world and not so much if foo then bar style. I hate that. She has a clear and descriptive writing style that makes CSS seem pretty straight forward. In practice it seems to still elude me, but I at least understand what is supposed be displayed and how it is supposed to work.
Great for beginning HTML. I liked the way it was laid out and how the information was presented. It makes for easy reference later.
This book is awesome! Before I had no idea what XML was, but I did know HTML. It was so cool!
SO MANY TYPOSE IN THIS BOOK however it has many hands-on exercises that are useful.
Jun 05, 2012
Samar
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Could some one help me to find this book on the internet please,I couldn't find it in PDF formula.
Feb 28, 2013
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I'm reading this as a possible textbook I might use.
I found this book to be extremely helpful
Great book for beginners.
Concise
Just finished my web design class so will be putting this aside to use as a reference book. I liked her businesslike tone and the book seemed very complete. Will be using it regularly as I try to expand my skills in this ever-changing industry.
An excellent resource for refreshing your basic web design skills or updating your knowledge on current (x)html and CSS standards. Should be good for beginners, too, as it doesn't assume that you're familiar with the tech-speak.
As a complete newbie to web design, I found this text very helpful. It explains basic concepts of web design and gives lots of examples of how to code HTML and CSS. Highly recommended for the beginning web designer!
This is a great introduction to the world of web design and coding - although it does depend a little too much on Dreamweaver.
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