Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond (Paperback)

In Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond, author Jennifer Niederst shares the knowledge she's gained from years of web design experience, both as a designer and as a teacher. This book starts from the very beginning--defining the Internet, the Web, browsers, and URLs--so you don't have to have any previous knowledge about how the Web works. Jennifer helps you build the solid foundation in HTML, graphics, and design principles that you need for crafting effective web pages. She also explains the nature of the medium and unpacks the web design process from conceptualization to the final result.

Learning Web Design:

• Covers the nuts and bolts of basic HTML, with detailed examples that illustrate how to format text, add graphic elements, make links, create tables and frames, and use color on the Web. In addition to a rundown on each HTML tag, there are tips on using three popular authoring programs: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe GoLive, and Microsoft FrontPage.


• Explains whether to use GIFs or JPEGs for different types of images and includes important tips on optimizing graphics for web delivery. The book also demonstrates step-by-step graphics creation using three popular web graphic tools: Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, and JASC Paint Shop Pro.


• Offers a tutorial on building usable web sites that covers information design, interface design, and navigation systems.


• Provides dozens of web design DOs and DON'Ts, to help you make good web design decisions and avoid common beginner traps.

Unlike other beginning books, Learning Web Design leaves no holes in your education. It gives you everything you need to create basic web sites, and will prepare you for more advanced web work. If you are interested in web design, this book is the place to start. After finishing it, you'll be ready for the author's bestselling companion reference, Web Design in a Nutshell.

在《學習網頁設計：HTML、圖形和更多的初學者指南》一書中，作者Jennifer Niederst分享了她多年的網頁設計經驗，無論是作為設計師還是教師所獲得的知識。這本書從最基礎的地方開始，解釋了互聯網、網頁、瀏覽器和URL的定義，因此您不需要對網頁的運作方式有任何先備知識。Jennifer幫助您建立HTML、圖形和設計原則的堅實基礎，以便製作出有效的網頁。她還解釋了媒體的本質，並從概念化到最終結果解析了網頁設計過程。

《學習網頁設計》一書包括以下內容：
- 詳細介紹了基本HTML的基礎知識，並提供了示例來說明如何格式化文本、添加圖形元素、建立連結、創建表格和框架以及在網頁上使用顏色。除了對每個HTML標籤的介紹外，還提供了使用三個常用的編輯程式的技巧：Macromedia Dreamweaver、Adobe GoLive和Microsoft FrontPage。
- 解釋了在不同類型圖像中使用GIF或JPEG的選擇，並提供了有關優化圖形以便在網頁上傳遞的重要提示。該書還演示了使用三個常用的網頁圖形工具（Adobe Photoshop、Macromedia Fireworks和JASC Paint Shop Pro）進行逐步圖形創建的方法。
- 提供了有關構建可用網站的教程，包括信息設計、界面設計和導航系統。
- 提供了數十個網頁設計的「應該做」和「不應該做」，以幫助您做出良好的網頁設計決策，避免常見的初學者陷阱。

與其他入門書籍不同，《學習網頁設計》在您的學習中不會留下任何空白。它提供了您創建基本網站所需的一切，並為您進一步進行高級網頁工作做好準備。如果您對網頁設計感興趣，這本書是您開始的地方。在閱讀完這本書之後，您將準備好閱讀作者的暢銷參考書《網頁設計大全》。