How to design websites / Alan Pipes.
This text addresses 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 178067077X
- ISBN: 9781780670775
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations
- Publisher: London : Laurence King, 2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-163) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction and background: What is the internet? -- Email and domains -- Newsgroups -- The World Wide Web (WWW) -- Designing for the World Wide Web -- Host and hosting -- FTP: uploading and downloading -- Domains -- Web design for graphic designers -- Browser compatibility -- Code: Getting started in HTML -- Helper applications -- Step-by-step 1: instant websites: a customized blog -- Trailblazer 1: Joshua Davis -- Layout: Frames and tables -- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) -- Layout in CSS -- Navigation -- Nesting divs -- Accessiblity -- Usability -- Step-by-step 2: a simple handmade XHTML/CSS website using a template -- Trailblazer 2: Erik Spiekermann -- Text and typography: Selecting fonts in HTML -- 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 -- Trailblazer 3: Gringo -- Images and colour schemes: Graphics formats: GIFs, JPEGs and PNGs -- Colour -- Colour theory -- Colour schemes -- Step-by-step 4: developing a website using background colours and faux columns -- Trailblazer 4: Soleil Noir -- Added extras: SSI (Service Side Includes) -- Animated GIFs -- Flash -- JavaScript -- E-commerce -- Content-management systems -- Websites for handheld mobile devices -- Web 2.0, HTML5 and the future. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Web sites > Design. Web site development. Sites Web > Conception. Sites Web > Développement. COMPUTERS > General. Web site development. Web sites > Design. |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |