... feel free to jump in at any point.The Companion Web SiteBe sure to visit the companion web site for this book at learningwebdesign.com. It features materials for the exercises, downloadable ... Publishers, 2004)Graphic Design Solutions, Third Edition by Robin Landa (Thomson Delmar Learning, 2005).Information design One easily overlooked aspect of webdesign is information design, the orga-nization ... good stuff.The Companion Web SiteBe sure to visit the companion web site for this book at learningwebdesign.com. It features materials for the exercises, downloadable articles, lists...
... following questions: y What are your webdesign goals? To become a professional web designer? To make personal websites only? y Which aspects of webdesign interest you the most? y What ... Robbins began designing for the Web in 1993 as the graphic designer for Global Network Navigator, the first commercial website. In addition to this book, she is the author of WebDesign in a ... most common and proven web design tools. Note that you can download trial versions of many of these programs from the company websites, as listed in the “Popular WebDesign Software Links”...
... page:www.w3.org/Consortium/www.it-ebooks.info LearningWeb Design www.it-ebooks.info PrefacexivAcknowledgmentsWhether you are reading this book on your own or using it as a companion to a webdesign course, ... Publishers, 2004)Graphic Design Solutions, Third Edition by Robin Landa (Thomson Delmar Learning, 2005).Information design One easily overlooked aspect of webdesign is information design, the orga-nization ... with web design. WHERE DO I START?CHAPTER 1www.it-ebooks.info Browser VersionsChapter 3, The Nature of Web Design 31improved dramatically now that browsers have better support for web...
... feel free to jump in at any point.The Companion Web SiteBe sure to visit the companion web site for this book at learningwebdesign.com. It features materials for the exercises, downloadable ... good stuff.The Companion Web SiteBe sure to visit the companion web site for this book at learningwebdesign.com. It features materials for the exercises, downloadable articles, lists ... the webdesign process, along with brief descriptions of the skills required in each area.Graphic design Because the Web is a visual medium, web pages require attention to presenta-tion and design. ...
... and proven tools for web design. Note that you can download trial versions of many of these programs from the company web sites, as listed in the At a Glance: Popular WebDesign Software sidebar ... Publishers, 2004)Graphic Design Solutions, Third Edition by Robin Landa (Thomson Delmar Learning, 2005).Information design One easily overlooked aspect of webdesign is information design, the orga-nization ... design. The following books will give you a good start on rounding out your design skills.The Non-Designer’s Design Book, Second Edition by Robin Williams (Peachpit Press, 2003) The Non-Designer’s...
... the following questions:What are your webdesign goals? To become a professional web designer? To make personal web sites only? Which aspects of webdesign interest you the most? What current ... images, movies, audio files, and all the other web resources that commonly make up web sites or are shared over the Web. A Brief History of the Web The Web was born in a particle physics laboratory ... 21, Getting Your Pages on the Web, for more information on file uploading.exercise 1-1 | Taking stockNow that you’re taking that first step in learningweb design, it might be a good time...
... used to access the Web. In other words, you must design for accessibility. Accessibility is a major topic of discussion in the webdesign world, and a priority for all web designers. While intended ... nature of the Web is particularly challenging if you have experience designing for print, where what you design stays put. As a print designer who made the transition to web design, I found ... exploration on web accessibility.The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), www.w3.org/WAIWebAIM: Web Accessibility in Mind, www.webaim.orgDive Into Accessibility: 30 days to a more accessible web site,...
... on the rack. This principle applies to web design as well. Web designers have adopted the term “above the fold” to refer to the first screenful of a web page. It’s what users will see without ... of Web Design 41Go with the flowLet’s take a look at what happens to text content on web pages when the window is resized. Unlike print pages, web pages are fluid. Take a look at the web ... early ’90s when the Web was young, most users used 8-bit moni-tors capable of displaying only 256 colors. Web designers were forced to choose colors from a restrictive web palette of 216 cross-platform...
... Gamma settings while you design. Since the major-ity of the web audience today uses Windows machines, designers using Macintosh computers need to be more diligent in testing designs for clarity ... consider when designing a web page. But there’s one thing that you hopefully do know something about when you begin the design process: your target audience. In professional web development ... broken web pagesPart I provided a general overview of the webdesign environment. Now that we’ve covered the big concepts, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and start creat-ing a real web page....
... ContentN o t eThe raw text file for this exercise is available online at www.learningwebdesign.com/materials/. Learning from step 1Our content isn’t looking so good (Figure 4-5). The text ... this chapter. You can also get the image file by saving it right from the sample web page online at www.learningwebdesign.com/chapter4/bistro. Right-click (or Ctrl-click on a Mac) on the goose ... appear-ance is also affected by the user’s preferences, discussed in Chapter 3, The Nature of Web Design. Figure 4-10. The outlines show the structure of the elements in the home page.Figure 4-10....
... type designer, Matthew Carter, has this to say about his profession:</p><blockquote> <p>Our alphabet hasn't changed in eons; there isn't much latitude in what a designer ... about the importance of meaningful (semantic) and well-structured markup.In the early years of web design, it was common to choose elements based on how they looked in the browser. Don’t like ... SheetStep 5: Change the Look with a Style SheetDepending on the content and purpose of your web site, you may decide that the browser’s default rendering of your document is perfectly adequate....
... and some of them are subtle.You can make your changes right on this page, or download the source from www.learningwebdesign.com/materials/ and edit the file in a text editor. The improved markup ... a text editor and see the results in a browser, this text file is available online at www.learningwebdesign.com/materials. The resulting code appears in Appendix A.<html><head><title>Tapenade ... no surprise that the presentational inline elements are discouraged from use in contemporary webdesign where style information should kept be separate from the markup. For that reason, we’ll...
... elements and character entities. Have fun!N ot eThis text file is available online at www.learningwebdesign.com/materials. The resulting markup is in Appendix A.exercise 5-3 | Text markup ... the content however you like. In fact, generic elements are a primary tool in standards-based webdesign because they enable authors to accurately describe content and offer plenty of “hooks” ... list of character references has been nicely assembled online by the folks at the Web Standards Project at www.webstandards.org/learn/reference/charts/entities/. Table 5-4. Common special characters...
... Along with Jen’s KitchenAll the files for the Jen’s Kitchen web site are available online at www.learningwebdesign.com/materials. Download the entire directory, making sure not to change the ... server. Linking to Pages on the Web Chapter 6, Adding Links97Linking to Pages on the Web Many times, you’ll want to create a link to a page that you’ve found on the Web. This is known as an “external” ... href="recipes/index.html"In this chapter, we’ll add links using absolute and relative URLs to my cook-ing web site, Jen’s Kitchen (see sidebar). Absolute URLs are easy, so let’s get them out of the way...