Master VISUALLY Creating Web Pages [Paperback]

Joe Kraynak (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764577263 | ISBN-13: 978-0764577260 | Publication Date: December 20, 2004 | Edition: 1

• Covers all of today's most common Web design tools, including HTML, JavaScript, cascading style sheets, Dreamweaver, and Flash
• Presents step-by-step instructions for 190 tasks using hundreds of screen shots with concise captions-all at a competitive price
• This two-color, intermediate-level reference delivers solutions for a wide range of Web design issues, from creating a layout template and establishing a color palette to adding interactivity, optimizing pages for ease of use and speed, and working with pictures and sound

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Creating Web Pages

"One picture is worth a thousand words." If you prefer instructions that show you how rather than tell you why, then this intermediate to advanced level reference is for you. Hundreds of succinctly captioned, step-by-step screen shots reveal how to accomplish more than 170 tasks needed for building great Web pages, including:

• Formatting pages with HTML, XML, and CSS
• Using HTML with JavaScript for interactivity
• Using headings, rules, and hyperlinks
• Understanding Cascading Style Sheets
• Creating server-side image maps
• Adding multimedia with Flash
• Building forms to collect data

About the Author

Joe Kraynak Joe Kraynak has been writing and editing training manuals and computer books for over fifteen years. His long list of computer books include Internet: Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks, Google: Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Computer Basics. Joe has a Master’s degree in English and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Creative Writing from Purdue University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (December 20, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764577263
• ISBN-13: 978-0764577260
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #893,122 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joe Kraynak has authored and coauthored numerous informative and easy-to-use books, including Take the Mic, Stage a Poetry Slam, Flipping Houses For Dummies, Foreclosure Self-Defense For Dummies, Financing Real Estate Investments For Dummies, 52 Weeks of Sales Success, Foreclosure Investing For Dummies, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Computer Basics, and Google Simplified: Top 100 Tips & Tricks.

He specializes in teaming up with prominent specialists in various fields to present their knowledge, experience, and insight to consumers in an easily accessible format. Over the course of his career, he has collaborated with experts in real estate (Ralph R. Roberts), psychiatry (Candida Fink, MD), food allergies (Robert A. Wood, MD), slam poetry (Marc Kelly Smith), mortgage lending (Chip Cummings), and mortgage fraud (Rachel Dollar).

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4.0 out of 5 stars a more advanced discussion, February 17, 2005

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This review is from: Master VISUALLY Creating Web Pages (Paperback)

The book aims at a cut above a complete beginner to the making of web pages. There's not much time wasted over explaining the basic HTML tags and how to put them together into a simple page. Instead, the book moves right along. Into more advanced issues like using base URLs to simplify your links by factoring out a common origin of data. Or how to format many pages by using CSS. Both internal and external.

As a practical matter, your website might need to support itself with banner ads. So the book shows how frames can be used for this purpose. Then, if you want to spruce up the interactivity on the client side browser, for someone going to your website, there is a long discussion on using JavaScript. The level of programming here can get quite involved, depending on your needs.

The book, like others in this series, is pretty focused. It's deliberately not as long as more comprehensive texts on this subject. But it aims at being more succinctly readable, for someone in a hurry.