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Web Design for Developers: A Programmer's Guide to Design Tools and Techniques

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Developers don't get to spend a lot of time thinking about design, but many secretly wish they knew how to make their applications look just a little bit better. This book takes you on a journey through a web site redesign, where you'll learn the basic concepts of design, color theory, typography, and accessibility. You'll learn how to take a sketch and transform it into a digital mockup in Photoshop, and then finally into a working web page. You'll see how to develop logos, icons, and buttons using Illustrator and Photoshop, and then code a web page that will load fast, be easy to maintain, and most of all, be accessible to all audiences.

300 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2009

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June 13, 2011
Un titolo più adatto avrebbe potuto essere "Web development for non web developers". Mi aspettavo una guida che trattasse il design dei siti, quindi colori, font, allineamenti, spazi, esempi grafici, regole di stile, ecc., e invece questi argomenti vengono trattati solo marginalmente e ripetendo cose trite e ritrite sui blog. La maggior parte del libro sembra più un corso base di HTML e CSS, con qualche accenno all'usabilità e qualcuno all'accessibilità. Inoltre "scade" in diverse banalizzazioni. Per esempio si rivolge a sviluppatori ma poi fa gestire i template con Dreamweaver invece che con un motore di templating server-side, o dice che si possono minificare i js e i css ma poi presenta un solo tool per farlo da linea di comando, invece di presentare librerie da integrare nei software. La sufficienza solo perché può essere utile come "manuale di base per chi inizia a sviluppare sul web", ma il titolo è sbagliato.
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This book was more intro to HTML and CSS than intro to design. I was hoping for more design theory than the two chapters on colors and typography. That being said, for an intro HTML book it is well written and helpful
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