Few designers have explored the intersecting worlds of design and QuarkXPress as thoroughly as best-selling author Michael Baumgardt. Luckily for us, he reveals his expertise here to show designers how they can create more effective designs using QuarkXPress. The focus in this volume is on the work, and indeed you'll find plenty of examples of other designers' work in these pages: to illustrate important concepts, serve as starting points for readers' own projects, and inspire. The first section of QuarkXPress 6 for Print and Web Design focuses on desktop publishing, tackling important topics such as working with text, preparing images, and choosing colors-all from a designer's perspective. The second section shows you how you can use QuarkXPress 6's powerful new Web capabilities to design great Web sites. Along the way you'll encounter interviews with top designers, numerous practical tips, and a chapter full of design tricks: Pick an effect (drop shadow, transparency, and more), and see how it was created. Essential reading for anyone who's interested in stretching their designs--and imagination--with QuarkXPress.
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Few designers have explored the intersecting worlds of design and QuarkXPress as thoroughly as best-selling author Michael Baumgardt. Luckily for us, he reveals his expertise here to show designers how they can create more effective designs using QuarkXPress. The focus in this volume is on the work, and indeed you'll find plenty of examples of other designers' work in these pages: to illustrate important concepts, serve as starting points for readers' own projects, and inspire. The first section of QuarkXPress Design focuses on desktop publishing, tackling important topics such as working with text, preparing images, and choosing colors-all from a designer's perspective. The second section shows you how you can use QuarkXPress 5's powerful new Web capabilities to design great Web sites. Along the way you'll encounter interviews with top designers, numerous practical tips, and a chapter full of design tricks: Pick an effect (drop shadow, transparency, and more), and see how it was created. Essential reading for anyone who's interested in stretching their designs-and imagination-with QuarkXPress.
About the Author
Michael Baumgardt is one of Germany's most respected authors on Web design and desktop publishing. One of the first designers to adopt desktop publishing, he made the leap into Web design in 1996. His books on design are consistent bestsellers. Michael is the author of Adobe Photoshop 7 Web Design.
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Web site building using Quark 6.0,
By jill shargaa (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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I rebuilt my web site in 2 days using Quark 6.0 thanks to this book! I upgraded to Quark 6.0 in July, 2003 because of the demonstration showing the web site building capabilities. I don't want a flash movie! I don't want anything fancy! Just clean, simple pages assembled in an easy application. Michael Baumgardt has written a "cookbook" illustrating just that. He also has color screen grabs and illustrations on every page. He covers using Photoshop in conjunction with Quark, because that's what the average graphic designer is going to be doing. This book is for the mid-to-high level user of both Photoshop and Quark applications. There's some history on desk top publishing as well. I bought another book just before this one that barely covered the web site building capabilities - what a waste of time.
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I searched for Quark books as I am taking a graphics degree and found the course books both years out of date and full of errors, tutors told me they were still the best available and looking in book stores and online I had to agree till I saw this tome and used it, excellent book of Quark and so very easy to follow.
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As an Evangelist for Quark, I get to read ALL the titles on QuarkXPress. During my many hours of reading, I found this amazing book "QuarkXPress 6 for Print and Web Design" by Michael Baumgardt. This was the book that I was looking for! Michael's book is a superlative read for the creative mind. It's great to find an author that puts into words the level of creativity you can build with QuarkXPress. I love this book and recommend it whenever I am speaking at an industry event.
Shellie Hall, Evangelist, Quark, Inc.
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