Html Studio Skills [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Ian Bell (Author), Marcus Eby (Author)

Book Description

Series: Studio skills | Publication Date: June 1997

Each HTML concept is presented in a task-based, step-by-step tutorial format. The text covers planning your pages and site, page structure, heads, lists, links, image maps, tables, frames, forms and graphics. The CD includes source code from the book.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

HTML Studio Skills is both an HTML 3.2 primer and a Web design guide for aspiring Web authors. First, the book helps you determine the nature of your site and its audience. Then you map your site and do a rudimentary design of it. Next you add the and elements to your page and bring in text elements, work with fonts and lists, add links and anchors, place inline images, add image maps, and add audio and video files. The book guides you through creating tables, forms, and frames as well as backgrounds, transparent GIFs, icons, graphical text, tables, and lists, and GIF animations. You even use Photoshop's layers, blend tools, transparency effects, and dithering and resizing features to create sophisticated--and small--images. Finally, you get into the trickier aspects of Web-site management and learn about CGI scripting, Java, and ActiveX. The authors also explain the issues involved with setting up your own Web server and discuss Microsoft Internet Information Server for Windows NT, WebSTAR for MacOS, and Apache for Unix. Throughout the book you learn how to perfect your work through careful designing and HTML coding. The included hybrid CD has project files, HTML editors, image-mapping applications, GIF-animation utilities, and demo versions of DeBabelizer Pro for Windows and DeBabelizer Toolbox for Macintosh.

From Library Journal

Bell and Eby provide an excellent visual introduction for aspiring HTML designers, beginning with project management, site mapping, visual blocking, and paper storyboarding. They then get into the nitty-gritty of HTML, images and multimedia, tables, forms, frames, server-side cgi scripting, and platform comparison of server software for NT, Mac, and UNIX.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 309 pages
• Publisher: Hayden Books (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568303556
• ISBN-13: 978-1568303550
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,196,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helps to expand the conception of how to develop a Web site, August 29, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Html Studio Skills (Paperback)

I think that Ian Bell very aptly describes how to use the tools of H.T.M.L. The descriptions even without viewing the cd are very concise and enable you to visualise how to. The cd helps to see how the code is written but I found Mr. Bell's writing to not need the cd to understand. Good for all levels. An enjoyable book

5.0 out of 5 stars 4 Years Later and Still a Great Book.., July 22, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Html Studio Skills (Paperback)

I've had this book for 3 years and still pull it off the shelf for occasional reference. My copy has been beaten to death from having loaned it to so many beginners because it gives a perfect walk through of the three main aspects of web programming: design, layout, and interactivity.

The CDROM itself is packed with useful tools and examples, and the writing style is at times way too entertaining for a technical book.

I owe my career to this book: this is how I took the step up from making simple home pages to planning & building professional web sites.

Thanks guys...

5.0 out of 5 stars President, Consulting Firm, January 29, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Html Studio Skills (Paperback)

Excellent, well written in English, for the non-programmer. I don't have the time nor desire to "learn it all." This book was a great deal of help to me.... brought my basic site to the "next level" without having to spend thousands of dollars for a programmer.