Foundation Web Design

Want to create a top-level website from scratch, but dont know where to start? Well, youve got a choice: buy this book, or buy ten others…

Creating a website in today's environment is no longer a question of knowing about one piece of software, or one technology. To achieve the best results, you need broad knowledge on a range of topics:

• HTML to create pages
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to format your text
• JavaScript to create interactivity
• Image editing software like Fireworks and Photoshop to prepare images
• Macromedia Flash to add multimedia content

Foundation Web Design is a step-by-step guide to stunning website creation. Starting with the basics, and assuming no prior knowledge, Sham Bhangal cuts through the jargon and introduces a wide range of essential skills and technologies. These combine to help you create a fully operational and graphically stunning case study website.

About the Authors:

Sham Bhangal's unique tutorial style has found success in friends of ED Foundation titles such as Foundation ActionScript, heralded by Amazon.com as “perhaps one of the finest introductory programming books ever written.”

Tomasz Jankowski―who designed the case study site―has won numerous web design awards. His stunning artwork first appeared in our landmark title New Masters of Flash.

Sham Bhangal has worked on books in new media for five years, during which time he has authored and co-authored numerous friends of ED books, including critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling titles like Foundation Flash, New Masters of Flash, Flash MX Upgrade Essentials, Flash MX Most Wanted, and the Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference. He has considerable working experience with Macromedia and Adobe products, as well as other general web design technologies (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.). In addition to speaking appearances at FlashForward, the biggest Macromedia Flash developer conference, Sham has also been a beta tester for Macromedia and Discreet products for a number of years.