Creative Web Design

In this book and CD-ROM package, the author offers a detailed guide and numerous tips and tricks on how to design eye-catching web pages. Using a step-by-step approach, the author shows readers how unusual design elements and impressive effects can be made quickly and effectively using different graphics and image processing programs. This package is an invaluable resource of tips, tricks, and ideas for all those working on the design of web sites, multimedia programs, or other computer graphics.

Creating outstanding Web sites is one of the most exciting challenges for graphic designers worldwide. Creative Web Design gives you the information you need to jump from DTP to the world of the Internet. The book explains everything you need to know to design first-class Web sites, from image processing to producing animations and programming in HTML and JavaScript. It describes the latest functions of the Netscape and Microsoft browsers, as well as tips and tricks to optimize your site for your audience. Interviews with top agencies reveal the insights and ideas that led to some of the best Web sites on the Internet. Many of the Web sites mentioned as examples in the book can be studied off-line using the accompanying CD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows. Michael Baumgardt is a designer and has worked since the beginning of the desktop publishing era with design on computer. He is the US correspondent for PAGE magazine and the author of several handbooks for designers. The following programs are shown in practical application: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Pagemill, Macromedia Shockwave, BareBone BBEdit, Fetch, GiFBuilder, Bias Peak with Waves plug-ins, and Real Audio. Visit Michael Baumgardt's Web site for the book: http://www.mitomedia.com