About.com Guide to Web Design: Build and Maintain a Dynamic, User-Friendly Web Site Using HTML, CSS and Javascript (About.com Guides) [Paperback]

Jennifer Kyrnin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2007 | Series: About.com Guides

People are registering new hostnames at a rate of 2 million per month. "The About.com Guide to Web Design" is the essential guidebook they need to build user-friendly websites- start to finish. Her, novice programmers will never be confused or overwhelmed by technical jargon. Jennifer Kyrnin, The About.com Web Design/HTML expert, is an experienced professional who will walk with them, building a sample website along the way to illustrate to tools and easy-to-implement insider techniques that can fulfil their vision. Featuring these essentials for effective websites such as: choosing where to host your website and why; knowing the basic codes to use for greater functionality; adding drama using Flash, DHTML, Ajax, and more; and, using HTML and CSS libraries as handy quick references"The About.com Guide to Web Design" simplifies programming down to only the elements needed for exceptional websites!

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About the Author

Jennifer Kyrnin (Snohomish, WA), the About.com expert in Web Design/HTML, has been designing Web pages since 1995. She maintains more than 5,000 pages of a large corporate website, the home pages for Symantec Coporation, as well as several intranet and extranet sites. She has worked with nearly every Web technology including XML, CMS, HTML, PHP, Perl, C, and Java.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media (December 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1598693786
• ISBN-13: 978-1598693782
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #994,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars User-Friendly Guide, October 26, 2007

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Part of my job as a Web designer/developer is to stay on top of current best practices, technology and software. This book covers all of that in a comprehensive but concise package.

The author goes a step beyond discussing what you can and can't do with a Web site, and offers practical, understandable reasons why, and specific examples of when a particular technique or technology is appropriate.

Like a well designed Web site, the book is well organized and easily readable. The links to the author's own website and others are well chosen, adding depth to the subject, and demonstrating an effective way to create a multimedia approach in which each medium plays a specific role, each complimentary to the other.

This is, by far, the best book of its kind that I've seen.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply The Basics, January 17, 2010

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There are hundreds of books out there that teach you how to build a website, but none distill the process down as clearly and concisely as Jennifer Kyrnin has in this publication. The text is very simple to follow along, even if you haven't the slightest idea on how to build a site using HTML. Confronting HTML for the first time can be intimidating enough. But Kyrnin gives you a cursory overview of the basics - leaving the more complex programming tasks such as working in java script and databases to other resources. She introduces you to e-commerce and flash; again leaving the nuances and complexities of these areas to other resources. Kyrnin provides a host of examples and also refers you to her blog on [...] for further detail. I have read several other books in basic website construction: Learning Web Design by Robbins and HTML 4 Dummies by Tittel and Burmeister. I would highly recommend that the beginning web desiger read Kyrnin's book first. I know I wish I had.

5.0 out of 5 stars About.com Web Design, July 24, 2011

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This book is clear and consise with many ideas for learning to build your own web site. It teaches HTML code and CSS in an easy to understand way. They offer a lot of web stuff for free too. Great site and great book for beginners and serious web designers.