Coloring Web Graphics (Paperback)

~ (Author), Bruce Heavin (Author), Ali Karp (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

When this book calls itself "the definitive resource for color on the web," they aren't pushing hype. This book covers graphic file types, color theory and relationships, using color on multiple platforms and with various browsers. Coated stock is used throughout to demonstrate color principles and design elements. Advice on how to transfer expertise from printed page to web page and how to work around web constraints makes this book particularly valuable. And thank goodness for discussion of how to make the smallest possible web files for fast downloading. Includes a CD-ROM for MAC and Windows with palettes, browser-safe clip-art, examples and samples. For all user levels.

From Library Journal

Weinman is a one-woman graphics factory turning out essential web-design guides. Coloring Web Graphics is a simply beautiful description of browser/platform safe colors. Anyone who has carefully designed a web site only to view what looks like a bizarre parody on a friend's machine will welcome this work. The CD is full of color palettes and clip art. Deconstructing is a total case study approach to understanding web design. This hands-on, backwards look at existing web sites includes examinations of the site code in html, Java, JavaScript, ShockWave, and even PhotoShop that produced the sites. Designing Web Graphics is a total approach to building a successful web site, from advice on buying hardware to animation techniques. Especially clear discussions of graphics formats (e.g., jpegs vs. gifs) and navigational graphics are augmented in this second edition with updated information on frames, interactivity, and more. In early summer, look for Preparing Web Graphics (ISBN 1-56205-686-7. $39.99) and Creative HTML Design (ISBN
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Product Details

• Paperback: 295 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Pub; Bk&CD-Rom edition (November 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562056697
• ISBN-13: 978-1562056698
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,592,867 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pick another book by Ms. Weinman., May 5, 1997

By A Customer

The book is a good summary of color on the Web, but her book <deconstructing web graphics> gives you almost as much information on color, plus a whole range of other ideas about HTML and Web design in general. If you buy <deconstructing>, or David Siegel's excellent "Creating Killer Web Sites," you really do not need this one

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sticker shock...Oh, the Horror!, June 18, 1997

By A Customer

This entire book would have been provided as a single chapter in any other book, but Weinman managed to inflate the "chapter" into an ENTIRE book...And if the flowing rhetoric and puffery don't get you, the sticker shock of having to pay a small fortune for this tiny tiny tiny book should

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware!, August 1, 1997

By A Customer

Weinman set herself up on a pedastal as a supposed genious of Web site design. Unfortunately and ironically, Weinman has about as much experience designing Web sites as my 8 year old, who dabbles in HTML!

What is even more amazing is that she admits her lack of experience in the introduction to her first book. Stating, she NEVER even created a Web site, YET there she is telling the world how to design web sites all the same! Weinman may have a background in graphic design, but graphic design and Web design are two different things.

To see just how much Weinman's Verve, Vivacity and Vision is crap, visit her web site. Not much originality and certainly NOT much in the way of a well designed Web site. I'd be embarrassed to publish her pages at my Web site.