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!
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Designing for the Web introduces you to the unique considerations of Web design and gives you the basics you need to hit the ground running. Although geared toward designers, this book covers information and techniques useful to anyone who wants to put graphics online. It explains how to work with HTML documents from a designer's point of view, outlines special problems with presenting information online, and walks through incorporating images into Web pages, with emphasis on resolution and improving efficiency. You'll find a step-by-step tutorial on putting together a Web page from scratch, pointers on creating graphics that are optimized for the Web, tips on using background images and colors in Web pages, recommendations for reducing download times of images, and instructions for transparency and interlacing to Web graphics. This book also discusses the impact of different browsers and platforms on your design, explains how HTML tags are used for design, and offers guidelines on navigational and orientation aids, as well as on conceptualizing your Web site as a whole.
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