A handsome and practical book, chock-full of useful tricks and tips for WWW graphics design, Although the book was created for already-experienced graphics designers moving to the Web medium, there's plenty of good information for novices as well. This book is especially strong in helping you solve the mysteries of working with transparency, interlacing, imagemaps, and bit-depths to create effective and compact images that work on the web. Recommended!
Product Description
Designing for the Web: Getting Started in a New Medium gives you the basics you'll need to make the transition to Web page design. It is geared toward designers who need to hit the ground running. This book won't teach you how to design. Instead, its aim is to give you the information you need to adapt your skills to the Web. It's a quick-start guide to introduce you to the Web and the unique considerations of Web design. Although the book is aimed at designers, the techniques in this book are useful to anyone who wants to put graphics online. In this book you'll find:
- A brief introduction to the Web
- A step-by-step tutorial on putting together a Web page from scratch
- Pointers on creating graphics that are optimized for the Web
- Recommendations for reducing download times of images
- Instructions for transparency and interlacing to Web graphics
- A discussion of the impact of different browsers and platforms on your design
- A listing and demonstration of the HTML tags used for design
- Tips on using background images and colors in Web pages
- Guidelines on navigational and orientation aids, and on conceptualizing your Web site as a whole
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