How to design websites
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How to design websites
（Portfolio skills, Graphic design）
Laurence King, 2011
- pbk.
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Includes index
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Description
There are books on the nuts and bolts of web design and there are books about website aesthetics, showcasing examples of good design. How to Design Websites contains the essentials of both, addressing the skillsets required to produce websites that are functional and elegant - but from a graphic designer's perspective. It demonstrates that you can design a working website in minutes without the need for expensive programs.
Chapters include Code, Layout, Text and Typography, and Images and Colour Schemes. Useful `tips and tricks' panels are included, as well as step-by-step projects --such as how to produce a portfolio site - that will be of interest to design students and to graduates of all disciplines. Inspirational `Trailblazer' case studies showcase the best of contemporary designers and their work. Blogs, Facebook, Flickr and HTML5, and new ways of using the web, such as mobile phones and netbooks, are also discussed.
Table of Contents
Preface 1 Introduction and background What is the internet? /Emails and domains /Newsgroups /The World Wide Web ./Designing for the World Wide Web /Hosts and hosting /FTP: uploading and downloading /Domains /Web design for graphic designers /Browser compatibility 2 Code Headings / Anchors and links / Character formatting/Entity codes / Images / Helper applications: Dreamweaver /Helper applications: Freeway /Helper applications: PageSpinner Step-by-step 1: Instant websites: a customized blog Trailblazers: Joshua Davis 3 Layout Frames and tables /CSS (Cascading Style sSheets) /Layout /The float property /Nesting divs /Accessibility /Usability / Step-by-step 2: A simple website /using a template Trailblazers: Gringo 4 Text and typography Text / The language of type / How type is measured / Font weights, variants and properties /Other typographic facilities Step-by-step 3: A basic portfolio website Trailblazers: Erik Spiekermann 5 Images and colour schemes Graphics formats: GIFs and JPEGs /Colour /Colour theory /Colour schemes Step-by-step 4: Developing a website using background colours and faux columns Trailblazers: Soleil Noir 6 Added extras SSI (Server Side Includes) /Animated GIFs / Flash / JavaScript / E-commerce / Content-management systems / Mobile devices / Web 2.0, HTML5 and the future Glossary / Further Reading /Tags and Properties / Picture Credits / Index
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