Web Site Design Goodies


Book Description

Web Site Design Goodies starts by asking, "Who is your site for?" and "Why should someone come to your site?" Once readers have answered those questions, the author takes them through essential web site creation issues, including: Deciding on a Server Planning your site ahead of time Text and Navigation Images and visual issues Communicating with visitors The final chapters cover advanced concepts including site promotion and adding the latest web tricks - in ways that make sense.Throughout the book, Joe critiques actual, published web sites, demonstrating the techniques that worked -- and the ones that didn't. Many of these sites will be pictured in a special 4-color section of the book.




Design Mom


Book Description

New York Times best seller Ever since Gabrielle Stanley Blair became a parent, she’s believed that a thoughtfully designed home is one of the greatest gifts we can give our families, and that the objects and decor we choose to surround ourselves with tell our family’s story. In this, her first book, Blair offers a room-by-room guide to keeping things sane, organized, creative, and stylish. She provides advice on getting the most out of even the smallest spaces; simple fixes that make it easy for little ones to help out around the house; ingenious storage solutions for the never-ending stream of kid stuff; rainy-day DIY projects; and much, much more.




Beyond HTML Goodies


Book Description

Go beyond the basics and learn how the pros add and use dynamic HTML features and advanced JavaScript techniques. Beyond HTML Goodies demonstrates dozens of new and different features readers can add to their existing Web pages using HTML and JavaScript. The book starts with simple text and image tips, such as adding a clock to a Web page or causing text to appear when the mouse moves over an image. It gradually builds to more complex tricks, including manipulating forms or working with cookies behind the scenes. Throughout the book, readers enjoy Joe's snappy style and "to the point" discussion of each "goody" in the book.




The Smashing Book


Book Description

These eBooks are the long-awaited digital version of our bestselling printed book about best practices in modern Web design. They share valuable practical insight into design, usability and coding, provide professional advice for designing mobile applications and building successful e-commerce websites, and explain common coding mistakes and how to avoid them. You'll explore the principles of professional design thinking and graphic design and learn how to apply psychology and game theory to create engaging user experiences.




Visual Design for the Modern Web


Book Description

Just as great artists must understand their tools, great Web designers must understand the technology behind their art. In Visual Design for the Web, author Penny McIntire shows novice Web designers how to use their tools--including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript--in conjunction with the principles of aesthetics and usability to become masters of their craft. Chapters begin with explanations of the terminology and techniques of web structures, then demonstrate how to apply the rules of design to create beautiful sites. The book: Illustrates how fundamental principles of design apply to the web Includes charts, diagrams, and graphics to enhance learning and retention Covers site analysis, navigation, layout, color, graphics, typography and forms Demonstrates multiple techniques for getting just the right look and feel for your web sites Focuses on the characteristics that make sites usable, engaging, and memorable




HTML Goodies


Book Description

"HTML Goodies, Second Edition" is based on the most popular tutorials at HTMLGoodies.com. It starts with a series of short primers teaching the basics of building Web pages, then continues with detailed tutorials covering Linking Adding images Using Tables and Frames Working with Style Sheets Later chapters move beyond HTML, demonstrating how to add sound or video, JavaScript and CGI programming to Web pages. The book finishes with a series of useful appendices you can refer to for quick reference.




Designing Interface Animation


Book Description

Effective interface animation deftly combines form and function to improve feedback, aid in orientation, direct attention, show causality, and express your brand’s personality. Designing Interface Animation shows you how to create web animation that balances purpose and style while blending seamlessly into the user’s experience. This book is a crash course in motion design theory and practice for web designers, UX professionals, and front-end developers alike.




Web Site Design Made Easy: Learn HTML, XHTML, and CSS


Book Description

Web Site Design Made Easy teaches the basics of web design. While it does assume that students spend at least some time viewing web pages on the Internet and have basic computer skills, it assumes no other knowledge on their part. Not only will they learn to plan and create a working website, but they will discover many of the "tricks" that take a website from basic to cool and useful. Web design is a broad area that can encompass many things: coding knowledge, graphic design, copywriting, page layout, and more-even server software programming. One book cannot teach it all. This book mainly focuses on teaching HTML coding and formatting using CSS, utilizing both IBM Windows and Macintosh. Other areas are touched upon, but these basic skills will carry your student a long way toward their goal of website design. This book is a complete rewrite from previous editions. It has been updated to the latest versions HTML (version 4.01) and CSS (version 2.1). The lessons teach web design that is XHTML compliant, and students can learn how to make a purely XHTML web page. CSS, cascading style sheets, has been given an extremely thorough treatment with three chapters dedicated to the subject, along with it being referenced throughout the book.Dennis Gaskill, a.k.a. Boogie Jack, is one of the most popular web page designers on the web. Students will enjoy his humor and they will love his book! Boogie Jack has received thousands of testimonials from his monthly Almost a Newsletter subscribers, confirming what a great job he does instructing them to create web sites.




Draplin Design Co.


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A funny, colorful, fascinating tour through the work and life of one of today’s most influential graphic designers. Esquire. Ford Motors. Burton Snowboards. The Obama Administration. While all of these brands are vastly different, they share at least one thing in com­mon: a teeny little bit of Aaron James Draplin. Draplin is one of the new school of influential graphic designers who combine the power of design, social media, entrepreneurship, and DIY aesthetic to create a successful business and way of life. Pretty Much Everything is a mid-career survey of work, case studies, inspiration, road stories, lists, maps, how-tos, and advice. It includes examples of his work—posters, record covers, logos—and presents the process behind his design with projects like Field Notes and the “Things We Love” State Posters. Draplin also offers valuable advice and hilarious commentary that illustrates how much more goes into design than just what appears on the page. With Draplin’s humor and pointed observations on the contemporary design scene, Pretty Much Everything is the complete package.




Creating Killer Web Sites


Book Description

Though there are already books about web design, most are technical in nature, and none take this case study approach. The primary focus is on Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer's HTML extensions, with new material devoted to new tags. The book is aimed at those who have already designed a web site, as well as for those wannabe web site designers.