Click Here: Web Communication Design (Lynda Weinman's Web Design Guides) [Textbook Binding]

Raymond Pirouz (Author), Lynda Weinman (Contributor)

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Series: Lynda Weinman's Web Design Guides | Publication Date: January 1997

Click Here is a tutorial and guide to solving fundamental problems of website design. Written by an award-winning website designer, Click Here presents an expert's unique point of view on successful Web design, and teaches readers through hands-on tutorials how to think about and implement these designs. Expert advice is given to Web design issues such as color, file size limitations, animation, load time, and looping restrictions. The tutorials will demonstrate how to use popular design tools, Photoshop, Illustrator, Gif Builder, etc., to arrive at a creative Web communication.

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Click Here explains how to use fundamental design principles to effectively communicate on the Web. Using step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations, the authors acquaint readers with design techniques and explain how these classic principles relate to Web design. Throughout Click Here's attractive pages, you will learn how to get visitors past your home page and into your site--and keep them there. The book also discusses critical Web concepts, such as browser and platform compatibility and browser-safe colors, and uses real Web examples to teach you how to create Web graphics and animated GIFs. Brief reviews of some of today's advanced Web technologies--Advanced HTML, JavaScript, Java applets, and Macromedia Shockwave--are also included.

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Click Here is a tutorial and guide to solving fundamental problems of website design. Written by an award-winning website designer, Click Here presents an expert's unique point of view on successful Web design, and teaches readers through hands-on tutorials how to think about and implement these designs. Expert advice is given to Web design issues such as color, file size limitations, animation, load time, and looping restrictions. The tutorials will demonstrate how to use popular design tools, Photoshop, Illustrator, Gif Builder, etc., to arrive at a creative Web communication.

Product Details

• Textbook Binding: 255 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Publishing; 1st edition (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562057928
• ISBN-13: 978-1562057923
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,572,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars General Overview of Design Concepts, July 8, 1998

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This review is from: Click Here: Web Communication Design (Lynda Weinman's Web Design Guides) (Textbook Binding)

This book featured a number of well developed web sites that were used as examples of what to do when laying out a design for a new web site. This is a good book for beginners without a design background, who are interested in learning some *basic* design concepts. This is definitely not the end all of design books, but a nice beginning introduction. The authors are down to earth with their tone and writing style. Very colorful, and very readable.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Web design for graphic designers, December 9, 2001

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This review is from: Click Here: Web Communication Design (Lynda Weinman's Web Design Guides) (Textbook Binding)

This book is a web design book written especially for graphic designers. In the first five chapters, Pirouz covers some basic concepts of web design, focusing more on graphic design issues such as color and white space more than navigation design or design for usability. In the second half of the book, he gives brief overviews of various software packages for creating Web media, such as Flash, Director, and Photoshop. Unfortunately, these software overviews are now dated, so the information in this section is no longer very useful.

Overall, the book contains some worthwhile information, such as a detailed explanation of why web designers must consider their audience before beginning. On the other hand, some of Pirouz's recommendations are not as well thought out, such as when he recommends enhancing users' Web experience with sound on the homepage. (How long can you resist hitting the mute button after opening a page with background sound?) Perhaps this book might be of interest to graphic designers considering switching to Web media, but I didn't find much in it for me.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Using this book for education., November 5, 1997

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This review is from: Click Here: Web Communication Design (Lynda Weinman's Web Design Guides) (Textbook Binding)

"click here." contains well focused information about current techniques for multimedia broadcasting on webs. I use it as a textbook for teaching this subject at a Third Year level, servicing a bachelor degree in Communication Studies, at the Auckland Institute of Technology in New Zealand. The visual information in the book is printed to a high quality. It's consise, but very punchy with clear discussions. Students like it. New Riders as a publisher are working with good authors, I also use Gary Buoton's book "Inside Extreme 3D 2" as a course textbook. This book is good value to anybody working with web design and web strategy.