Web Site Cookbook

by Doug Addison

The Web Site Cookbook from O'Reilly addresses all the essential skills that you need to create engaging, visitor-friendly web sites and does it in a simple format that won't require hours of research and study time. Typical of O'Reilly's Cookbook series, the Web Site Cookbook is written in a straightforward format, featuring recipes that contain problem statements and solutions. A detailed explanation then follows each recipe to show you how and why the solution works. This question-solution-discussion format is a proven teaching method. In just minutes, you can find a problem, see solutions to the problem, and have a thorough understanding of why those solutions work and how they can best be applied to your own projects.

Genres: Reference, Website Design

Paperback

First published February 10, 2006

Reviews

[Tami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Web Site Cookbook is a really good problem solving guide for beginner to intermediate web designers. This reference includes hundreds of common questions, how tos, and ways to increase efficiency in a standard problem, solution, discussion, and see also format. Each of these entries also uses snippets of text and often includes illustrations of the result whenever possible. Topics include everything from registering and site planning through formatting text and graphics to making forms and dealing with ecommerce issues.

Web Site Cookbook is set up from simple to more complex concepts so that the reader need not have any previous experience creating a website in order to comprehend and make use of these instructions. Furthermore, the quick and easy access of the problem-solution format of the entries will be particularly helpful to web designers looking for particular solutions, wanting to upgrade their skills, or just wanting to learn a few new techniques to improve their site.