Web Tricks and Techniques: Layout Fast Solutions for Hands-On Design

No more dense computer manuals and time-consuming code copying. With this invaluable new reference, Web designers at all experience levels can get up to speed immediately on the latest technologies-and use them to create compelling online sites.

New and better technologies have created increasingly demanding consumers. A Web site that doesn’t incorporate the latest effects will have trouble keeping the user’s attention-and the challenge to deliver lies squarely with today’s Web designers. Now, Rockport Publishers helps answer this challenge with the Web Tricks and Techniques series. These user-friendly reference guides are designed to make even the most complicated and intimidating Web technology easy to understand.

Using a straightforward format that allows readers to look over the shoulder of top design experts, Layout offers tips and tricks for every element of Web page design. Step-by-step instructions walk the reader through a wide range of challenges from general layout issues (storyboarding and architecture essentials) to navigation (pop-down/up menus and collapsible navigation bars) to special effects with text, and an accompanying Web site includes actual HTML codes to download making each featured “trick” work.

Elisabeth Heinicke is a Web designer and educator. As the owner of Xuxy Grafix, a Boston-based Web design company, she has been designing and developing informational and e-commerce sites for her clients since 1996. Elisabeth teaches in the Internet Systems Management Program at Bentley College and has taught Dreamweaver at the Art Institute of Boston. Additionally, Elisabeth teaches HTML, DHTML, and Dreamweaver at the Interactive Factory in Boston.