Novell's Certified Web Designer Study Guide [Paperback]

Jim Bowman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1998 | ISBN-10: 0764545485 | ISBN-13: 978-0764545481

This text aims to provide the knowledge readers need to pass the three examinations unique to the Web Designer certification. Two additional courses are covered in a separate book (these two courses are prerequisites to four distinct CIP certifications, and IDG are publishing them separately to avoid duplication). The organization of the book corresponds exactly to the certification tests, which should prove to be of benefit for all those preparing to take part in Novell exams. More importantly, the information in this book is more extensive than that provided in the Novell printed course material to compensate for the absence of an instructor. It is also much less extensive than an "all-you-ever-need-to-know" guide to keep the reader's focus on the course material. The book covers two courses: 660 - Designing Effective Web Sites; and 654 - Web Authoring. The attached CD-ROM includes samples of products promoted by Novell for this course: Netscape Communicator, NetObjects' Fusion and an Adobe Photoshop demo.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

No web designer needs to be certified. But this book outlines what web designers should be able to do in terms of tagging, graphics, multimedia, and scripting with Java, JavaScript, and Perl. This "study guide" actually provides lessons supporting three courses (660, 654, and 655) developed by Education by Novell. One small quibble: there is only a half-page discussion of copyright issues. Regardless, many designers will be interested in being certified since it may mean more money and work; nontechies who are hiring webmasters will find this a useful primer to understand their employees' skills.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 708 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers) (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764545485
• ISBN-13: 978-0764545481
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,686,172 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for what it's for, but not much else, May 17, 1999

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This review is from: Novell's Certified Web Designer Study Guide (Paperback)

***The Good:***
This book will help you pass the Novell CWDs exams, and may be the only study guide suitable to do so. Even if you are an experienced web developer, many questions on the exams are based on how Novell recommends you do things, i.e. the Novell way. In that regard, this book is indispensible for those wanting to pass the exams, since you will not get this information anywhere else. The chapter ending questions, while not verbatim from the exams, do a very good job of preparing you for what you'll see on the actual exams, so much so that you almost can skip the chapter entirely and just fill in the blanks with answers from the back of the book, and study that. I don't recommend this approach, but that's how preparative the questions are; don't skip them.

***The Bad:***
If you are not already an experienced web developer, this book will not make you one. There are a great many tidbits and cool tricks an experienced developer can pick up to expand his knowledge base, but this book is too small to be a comprehensive study of all the technologies it covers. If you are new, start with something else. There's not enough here to even make it on my reference shelf.

***The Verdict:***
If you want to pass the exams, BUY THIS BOOK! If you want to learn HTML or JavaScript or web design, buy something else.

5.0 out of 5 stars I love the Certified Web Designer Study Guide!, April 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Novell's Certified Web Designer Study Guide (Paperback)

This book is more valuable to you than any classroom session! However, don't think you can be a web page design professional until you master the Photoshop skills. (buy a photoshop book) HTML experience really helps you to move along, because it requires practice.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good HTML instruction, May 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Novell's Certified Web Designer Study Guide (Paperback)

The first third of the book taught me HTML well. However, I am not sure how much value Web Design certification holds. So I chose not to bother with the certification exam.

The second and third parts were a little hard for me to follow. I feel I could have gotten HTML instruction as good as from the first third of this book by purchasing a cheaper book devoted only to HTML.