Web Type Expert: All That You Need to Create Fantastic Web Type (Web Expert) [Paperback]

Tom Arah (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2003 | Series: Web Expert

Taking up where the popular Web Design Expert left off, this in-depth manual explores the most imaginative possibilities of using type on the Web. After a crash course in the history of typography and font design, there’s an introduction to HTML foundations; information on embedded font technology; and a comprehensive review of cascading style sheets that simplify complex typographic layouts. Bitmap, Acrobat Authoring applications, Flash type handling: they're all here, with easy-to-follow projects throughout.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Friedman (April 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1586639668
• ISBN-13: 978-1586639662
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,354,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars review from a Macintosh user, November 30, 2003

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This review is from: Web Type Expert: All That You Need to Create Fantastic Web Type (Web Expert) (Paperback)

The back of this book has "For MACINTOSH/WINDOWS" emblazoned above the UPC barcode. This is only partly true. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a cross-platform technology, but you can get different results on different platforms and different browsers.

The book has a copyright of 2003, but no mention of Apple's Safari browser has even been mentioned, or the fact that since the release of Apple's new browser, Microsoft will no longer be coming out with new versions of Internet Explorer for the Mac platform. There is one pitiful, watermarked screenshot of a Mac-based browser that is obviously using OS 9.2.2 or older. All the other screenshots and examples use Windows XP.

The book is busting with great information irregardless of platform, and some Web addresses of other sites using the technology to give you food for thought and a bit of inspiration.

A few pages cover Font embedding, but the author would make you think that the only way to do font embedding is by using Windows, because no mention of Mac-based applications are even hinted at. How about HexMac? Why not even mention that it exists? It's like the "Mac/Windows" claim was an afterthought slapped on the book to increase sales - truly deceptive.

Another star was lost due to the shoddy index. The index was far from being exhaustive and it was sometimes easier to find what I was looking for by skimming the contents or just flipping the pages because major key words were missing from the index... which makes for a poor reference book!

The information is good and I will keep this on my shelf for reference from time to time, but it won't be the first book I pick up because in a hurry, I won't be able to find what I'm looking for!