Teach Yourself Great Web Design in a Week (Teach Yourself Series) [Paperback]

Anne-Rae Vasquez-Peterson (Author), Paul Chow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1997 | Series: Teach Yourself Series

A tutorial in the fundamentals of good page design - typography, layout, colour, graphics - and how to apply them to the Web. It explains how to create Web pages that are visually appealing, that present information effectively, and that efficiently guide a visitor through the site.

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Amazon.com Review

The basics of Web design are easy to learn if you have the right teachers--such as Ann-Rae Vasquez-Peterson and Paul Chow. And with so much bad design on the Web, knowing what to do will automatically put you near the front of the pack. This book takes you through everything from basic design elements to planning a site to final design--just seven days worth of lessons to teach you how to design Web sites that sizzle. Included is a CD-ROM with all the book's source code, examples, and great software tools.

From the Publisher

This step-by-step, full-color tutorial is loaded with graphics, tables, diagrams, and examples of what to do-and what not to do-when designing Web pages. Users will master the fundamentals of good page design-from typography fan layout to use of color and graphics-and learn how to apply them to the Web. In no time, they'll be creating eye-catching Web pages that present information effectively and guide visitors through their sites efficiently. - Provides Q&A sections, week-at-a-glance previews, and real-world exercises to make learning easy-and fun

- CD-ROM contains Internet Explorer 3.0, Microsoft ActiveX and HTML development tools, ready-to-use templates, graphics, scripts, Java applets, and ActiveX controls

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Sams Publishing (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575212536
• ISBN-13: 978-1575212531
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,328,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book for Newbies, November 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Great Web Design in a Week (Teach Yourself Series) (Paperback)

Well-organized and packed with information, I heartily recommend this book. Unlike many "web design" books, the authors really know their stuff and show examples of really well-designed sites. Visually, this book is a treat to read. The authors keep it simple, while giving people the tools and "eye" they need to design appealing web sites. This book didn't waste my money, although I'm an experienced web designer.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fancy page and great illustration, April 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Great Web Design in a Week (Teach Yourself Series) (Paperback)

As usually, I first looked at the physical form of the book. I'm interesting with its full color design. I'm quite sure that this book is expensive enough. And I'm true, it's $49.99. I hoped that the content will equal with the price.

From the user level category at the back cover, I know that this book for New until Casual user. I wonder how it will explain about great web design for new user. After I read and passed chapter to chapter, I have plus mark for this book. It teaches the user how to layout the position of every object in the web page for nice looking purpose. With its full color figures, will make user enjoy their trip to great web design.

But, I have found one big minus mark for this book. It doesn't explain the syntax of HTML itself deeply. It just explains a few of HTML tags, and shows great figure of each example. If new user buy this book, he will be disappointed with the lack of HTML tag explained here.

Finally, for new user that had previous knowledge of HTML syntax or had the HTML Reference Book, buying this book is good for improving the knowledge of web page great design with nice looking. But for the truly new, it's not recommended to buy this book because its lacking of HTML syntax especially frame syntax. For $49.99 it's equal for full color examples and full loaded shareware programs for this book, but not for referencing HTML deeply.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for novice bad for intermediate, November 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Great Web Design in a Week (Teach Yourself Series) (Paperback)

A very "Graphic" book comprising of pictures and illustrations. Examples are excellent but lack the serious and more practical aspect of it. The cost of the book bears most of the colour printing and not the content of it. An excellent and inspiring choice for beginners but a rather long-winded version for the more serious ones....as stated behind the book.