Color for Websites : Digital Media Design (Digital Media Design) [Hardcover]

Molly Holzschlag (Author)

Book Description

Series: Digital Media Design | Publication Date: October 2001

As all web designers know, colour is a crucial ingredient in any website. From the very basic level of attracting potential 'surfers' to stop and take a look at a site, to the more complex navigational requirements, colour use can make or break a website. This title will examine in-depth the difference in value between colour on screen and print-based material. Through outstanding examples of good colour use in websites - both high-budget and low-budget sites - this book provides the reader with what's current, as well as looking to the future. A must for students and practising designers, and an extremely useful reference tool for those who commission web design

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About the Author

Molly E. Holzschlag is an author, instructor and designer who has been named as one of the top 25 most influential women on the web. As design director for Desert.Net, Molly helped develop leading websites. She also ran the Web Design Community on MSN for its first year.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 175 pages
• Publisher: Rotovision (October 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2880465427
• ISBN-13: 978-2880465421
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 9.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,433,104 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a waste of paper, May 29, 2005

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This review is from: Color for Websites: Digital Media Design (Graphic Design) (Paperback)

With this book I was expecting something more along the lines of color psychology, but it turned out to be 176 pages of common sense. Molly Holzschlag takes the time to teach you the basics of Photoshop without mentioning Photoshop. Unless you know absolutely nothing about digital images, and I stress 'absolutely nothing', then this book would be a complete waste of time for you. Even if that were the case, you're better off with a book on Photoshop.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars i feel sorry for the trees, April 24, 2005

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Igor - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color for Websites: Digital Media Design (Graphic Design) (Paperback)

... that died for the paper of this book.

The book is filled with lots of pages displaying nothing but colors. Without a comment. Just like that. Thank you Mrs. Holzschlag but i already have these colors on my computer, no need for you to sell them to me in a book. They'll look different on my screen anyway than on paper.

What i want is color psychology, color associations, how to best combine different colors (beyond just naming the typical color schemes - color scheme generator 2 could automatically create that type of generic scheme) , things to consider on the screen other than "use browser-safe colors". These topics are hardly covered in this book. Maybe mentioned, but that's about it.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great reference for web color and design, August 22, 2002

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This review is from: Color for Websites : Digital Media Design (Digital Media Design) (Hardcover)

Molly Holzschlag is a good writer and explainer of the whys of web design and code, and this book is a great reference for putting together a web project, the whys of color, what works with what, and why. It's also good for prompting ideas for new clients.