Web Design Essentials - Softcover

Giudice, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201700115 ISBN 13: 9780201700114

Publisher: Adobe Press, 1999

Synopsis

Provides detailed tips from leading Web designers, teaching how to use the latest versions of Adobe's key software programs to design sophisticated and efficient Web pages. Softcover.

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Review

Web Design Essentials is part of Adobe's Professional Studio Techniques series, which features wide-format books that lie flat on your desk as you work through step-by-step instructions and peruse tips on using Adobe's popular software titles. Books in this series are very well written and illustrated. They tend to stay on the front of the bookshelf for many years, long after version upgrades, often remaining invaluable.

This book concentrates on using Photoshop 5.5, Illustrator 8.0 and GoLive 4.0 to create Web sites, pages, rollovers, batched icons, animations, and many other useful, creative, and up-to-date elements. These tips will not only add spark to your Web design, it will also speed up production time. The techniques are contributed by several professionals using examples from their own projects. This "many chefs" style ensures that the ideas are fresh, clever, and fairly simple, yet still yield big results.

For example, Jason Kottke of kottke.org shows a step-and-repeat trick in Photoshop for building 3-D text without any fancy plug-ins. Florian Fangohr of hotstudio.com explains how to use ImageReady to create droplets: batch-processing drag and drop actions. He also gives a short tutorial on how to create "remote" rollovers (also known as "pointer" rollovers) in GoLive.

Some techniques have uses outside the realm of Web design. For example, Noreen Santini (hotstudio.com) charts out Photoshop's blending modes, and Sandra Kelch (theispot.com) offers a demonstration on using the Magic Wand tool to select and replace colors.

The book organizes tasks into three categories of difficulty, though none should prove troubling to beginners. And some of the tips, especially the animations, aren't clear. These caveats aside, Web Design Essentials makes a handy addition to any studio library. --Angelynn Grant

Topics covered: Selected techniques for using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and GoLive for Web design, including tips on site planning and management, preparing Web graphics and typography, using tables, frames, animations, and rollovers.

From the Back Cover

Part of the Adobe Essentials series, Web Design Essentials, 2nd Edition showcases the very best in professional Web design techniques in practical detail. Web designers will learn how to combine Adobe Photoshop, LiveMotion, GoLive, ImageReady, and Illustrator to create eye-catching, “sticky” Web sites and graphics, using an assortment of step-by-step tips that can help you take full advantage of all of Adobe’s tools. Laid out in a glossy, 4-color format, readers will learn how to plan and manage site content, prepare graphics, manage type, animations, rollovers, and more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Adobe Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201700115
• ISBN 13: 9780201700114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128