Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond
Written by Clement Faria on November 18, 2009 under Web Development.
Product Description
In Learning Web Design, author Jennifer Niederst shares the knowledge she’s gained from years of web design experience, both as a designer and a teacher. This book starts from the beginning– defining the Internet, the Web, browsers, and URLs– so you don’t need to have any previous knowledge about how the Web works. After reading this book, you’ll have a solid foundation in HTML, graphics, and design principles that you can immediately put to use in creating effe… More >>
Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond
Teddy
November 18, 2009 at 11:03 pm
The reviewer/teacher that posted on April 11, 2001 is right on the mark. This book says nothing on Forms. However, it is a good book explaining the ins-out of the rest of the stuff to a degree. But I feel it spends too much time on hypothetical questioning & marketing your pages, which is good I suppose but a waste of time when most of what she says is common sense. I already knew HTML before going into this book & it shows some new helpers that weren’t there before. She doesn’t address the pitfalls of many HTML situations like nested tables or backgrounds in cells in nested tables in older browsers (well not that old). The publishing company QUE wrote a book on HTML and it was much better. The whole HTML/web design coding is changing pretty fast with XML/XHTML, & CSS arrising, this book is no better than QUE’s published 5-7 years ago. I do not recommend this book. Oh yeah one more thing, it has cheap binding, mine is already falling apart!
Rating: 2 / 5
Grant Calvert
November 19, 2009 at 12:45 am
What a great book! Being very new to website design was a little scary, but this book eases the stress – user friendly. Thoroughly recommended. Get out and buy it!
Rating: 4 / 5
Anonymous
November 19, 2009 at 2:37 am
Excellent writing style made it fun and easy to follow along and actually create a functional website. I made 4 websites by the time I finished the book!
Rating: 5 / 5
Anonymous
November 19, 2009 at 4:02 am
For those looking to start web design this is the book to get. It says illustrated but it should say illustrations on every page. Very very illustrated. One of my favorite things about this book is after every chapter(when HTML is disscused)it provides an appendix showing you the html tags you just learned. Useful as a reference. This book does not leave you hanging. It teaches you every thing you need to create and understand basic websites. About half the book introduces you to html tags and the other portion is about web graphics. Jenn’s style of writting is not boring but is often humerous and cozy. I have created 4 websites after reading this book. Buy this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
Ralph Speirs
November 19, 2009 at 6:57 am
Jennifer Niederst book “Learning Web Design” I found to be a great book explaining very well for beginners on how to build basic websites. I have been building sites for a year and studying and this book gave me great foundation for my future web designing. I look forward to reading her other book, which I bought with this one “Web Design in a nutshell”.
Rating: 5 / 5