The Non-Designer's Web Book: An Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site - Softcover

Williams, Robin; Tollett, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 020168859X ISBN 13: 9780201688597

Publisher: Peachpit Pr, 1998

Synopsis

An introducton to design principles for beginning Web users explains how to create a Web site without any code, how to integrate graphics into a personal Web page, and how to get their finished site up on the Web. Original. (Beginner).

About this title

About the Author

Robin Williams is a fourth-generation Californian on both sides, born in Berkeley and raised in the Bay Area. She lived in Sonoma County for 15 years, then in 1993, she packed up her kids, the dog, and two cats and moved to New Mexico.

John Tollett's graphics background includes working as a designer, art director, and illustrator titles at advertising agencies and as a freelancer. "The majority of this experience was gained in Dallas, but the lure of adobe houses and snow-covered mountains brought me to Santa Fe. Here, I've continued designing, art directing, and illustrating, and of course started using a Macintosh. Now there's one factor present that wasn't there before: Now it's fun. Now I can experiment. I can change my mind. I can play.

I read once that all creativity is a form of play. I didn't believe it at the time. Being creative was work. But now, as I look out the window at the fresh snow on the mountains, I wonder: Should I go skiing or should I boot up the Mac?"

From the Back Cover

The Non-Designer's Web Book is geared to the person who has no background in design or the World Wide Web, but who still wants to participate in this communication explosion.

Aspiring Web designers learn why Web design is different from print design and how to take advantage of it, where to get or how to make Web graphics easily, and how to get their finished Web site up on the World Wide Web. With its user-friendly writing, appealing page design, eye-catching graphics, extensive examples and illustrations, and full-color throughout, The Non-Designer's Web Book provides beginners with everything they need to create their own beautiful and well-designed Web sites. Platform: MAC WIN

Reviews

Lynda Weinman (Coloring Web Graphics, Deconstructing Web Graphics, and Designing Web Graphics, all LJ 5/1/97) is the designer's designer, but most people on the web don't know much about color theory. This book is for them. It covers everything from what the web is and how to search it to uploading finished pages and registering a web site. Very clearly written and well illustrated, this will circulate in virtually any library. Markup Languages The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is considered too complicated for most people undertaking web-page construction, but the intricate structure provided by SGML is invaluable for large linked document sets. Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) uses SGML as its conceptual model but can be quickly mastered and is the now-familiar, relatively simple coding used for web-page design. To further complicate matters, Extensible Markup Language (XML) has been created as a sort of a half-way point between underperforming HTML and too-complex SGML. Here are some titles to help clear it all up.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 020168859X
• ISBN 13: 9780201688597
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287