The Non-Designer's Web Book : An Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site

by Robin Williams, John Tollett
*****

The Non-Designer's Web Book is for anyone who has little or no background in design or the World Wide Web, but who still wants to participate in this communication explosion. If you are an aspiring Web designer, you'll learn why Web design is different from print design and how to take advantage of it, where to get or how to make Web graphics easily, how to use typography on the Web, how to get your finished Web site up on the World Wide Web, and much, much more.

Web Pages That Suck : Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design

by Vincent Flanders, Michael Willis
****

Unless you're abnormally gifted, the best way to learn a craft thoroughly is to learn not only its central tenets but also its pitfalls. Here, authors Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis teach you good Web design by pointing out ugly, misguided, and confusing sites--any site that fails to deliver good graphics and clear, well-focused content. As the authors show you all sorts of corporate and personal pages, they help you determine your target audience, design your site and its navigational elements and content, and solve problems concerning graphics and text. You also learn about using tables versus frames and get an introduction to hot technologies such as plug-ins, cascading style sheets, XML, databases, VRML, Java, streaming video and audio, videoconferencing, and chat. Finally, the authors address maintenance and marketing issues, teaching you how to set up an appropriate domain name, update your site, register your site with search engines and directories, and use reciprocal links and banner ads. The authors address cross-platform issues and Netscape/Microsoft incompatibility issues where appropriate. This is a full-color book, with enthusiastic, amusing writing as well as helpful screen shots and tips on Web-design software. The companion hybrid CD-ROM includes utilities for creating GIF animations, style sheets, and HTML pages and for creating, compressing, and optimizing Web graphics.

Elements of Web Design : The Designer's Guide to a New Medium

by Darcy Dinucci, Maria Giudice, Lynne Stiles
*****

Elements of Web Design, 2nd Edition is written for people who know design but just don't know the Web. It describes how your skills can be applied to the exciting world of Web design and introduces the terms, tricks, and technologies you'll need to know to get started. When you're done, you'll have a grasp of every element of Web design, from assembling your team through planning your pages and publishing your site online.

The Web Design Wow! Book: Showcasing the Best of On-Screen Communication

by Jack Davis, Susan Merritt
****

Here's an indispensable source of practical advice and creative inspiration for anyone designing screen-based communications-from Web to CD-ROM and beyond. From Jack Davis, co-author of the award-winning Photoshop Wow! Book, this book covers the conceptual process, design fundamentals, and essential interface components. It includes over 50 case studies and more than 600 full-color examples of highly successful and creative interfaces for marketing, sales, education, and portfolio presentations.

Web Concept & Design : A Comprehensive Guide for Creating Effective Web Sites (1st Edition)

by Crystal Waters, Andrew Mundy
*****

Learn Web page layout and design techniques from the design authority, Crystal Waters. She will lead readers through the craft that separates bland and simple sites from those that get results. Readers will learn how to get organized and clearly communicate their Web site content, since a dull Web site is a dead Web site

Web Designer's Guide to Graphics : Png, Gif & Jpeg

by Timothy Webster, Paul Atzberger, Andrew Zolli
*****

This attractive, full-color book is an excellent guide for beginning and advanced Web designers who want to learn all about the .PNG, .GIF, and .JPG graphics file formats. The author, Timothy Webster, explains when it makes sense--or doesn't--to use each format, and he instructs you on how to optimize images saved in each. Before he delves into comparing the formats, he explains all you need to know about graphics, including monitors, bit-depth, resolution, palettes, anti-aliasing, compression, and interlacing. He covers both Windows and Macintosh platforms and refers to Netscape Navigator 2.0 and later and Internet Explorer 2.0 and later, as well as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Equilibrium's DeBabelizer in the book's projects. The hybrid CD-ROM includes project files, the PNG Live plug-in (for adding .PNG support to your browser), graphics utilities, and a demo version of DeBabelizer.

Roger C. Parker's Guide to Web Content and Design : Eight Steps to Web Site Success

by Roger C. Parker
*****

This is an exceptional book for marketing professionals who want to design a professional, informative Web site for existing and prospective customers. The author discusses the steps involved in making such a site successful--planning, content, design, involvement, production, follow-up, promotion, and maintenance--and emphasizes that these aren't linear steps but part of a cyclical process wherein you constantly evaluate the effectiveness of your company's site. You get advice on examining other Web sites, focusing on the proper message and information for your target market, overseeing design and administration efforts, and keeping your site up-to-date and improving on it when necessary. This nontechnical guide even teaches you HTML, tables, and frames, and discusses design basics such as appropriate usage of fonts and colors. Full-color screen shots of successful and not-so-successful Web sites help illuminate these points. Each chapter ends with a worksheet that you use to evaluate what you need to do to accomplish the particular step under discussion.

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