Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics - Softcover

Robbins, Jennifer

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9781491960202: Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1491960205 ISBN 13: 9781491960202
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2018

Synopsis

Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You’ll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices.

Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various techniques and short quizzes to make sure you understand key concepts.

This thoroughly revised edition is ideal for students and professionals of all backgrounds and skill levels. It is simple and clear enough for beginners, yet thorough enough to be a useful reference for experienced developers keeping their skills up to date.

  • Build HTML pages with text, links, images, tables, and forms
  • Use style sheets (CSS) for colors, backgrounds, formatting text, page layout, and even simple animation effects
  • Learn how JavaScript works and why the language is so important in web design
  • Create and optimize web images so they’ll download as quickly as possible
  • NEW! Use CSS Flexbox and Grid for sophisticated and flexible page layout
  • NEW! Learn the ins and outs of Responsive Web Design to make web pages look great on all devices
  • NEW! Become familiar with the command line, Git, and other tools in the modern web developer’s toolkit
  • NEW! Get to know the super-powers of SVG graphics

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About the Author

Jennifer Niederst Robbins was one of the first designers for the Web. As the designer of O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site, she has been designing for the Web since 1993. She is the author of the bestselling "Web Design in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly), and has taught web design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and Johnson and Wales University in Providence. She has spoken at major design and Internet events including SXSW Interactive, Seybold Seminars, the GRAFILL conference (Geilo, Norway), and one of the first W3C International Expos.

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Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1491960205
ISBN 13 
9781491960202
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
5
Number of pages
808
Rating
  • 4.09 out of 5 stars
    796 ratings by Goodreads

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