Web Design Simplified

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

This book democratizes web development for everyone. It's a fun, clever guide that covers all of the key design principles, best practices, useful shortcuts, pro tips, real-world examples, and basic coding tutorials needed to produce a beautiful website that you'll feel confident sharing with the world. Because you, too, can design for the web! Hello Web Design contains everything you need to feel comfortable doing your own web development, including an abundance of real-life website examples that will inspire and motivate you. No need to spend time and money hiring an expensive graphic designer; this book will walk you through the fundamentals - and shortcuts - you need to do it all yourself, right now.

The easiest way to learn how to create a Web page for your family or organization Do you want to share photos and family lore with relatives far away? Have you been put in charge of communication for your neighborhood group or nonprofit organization? A Web page is the way to get the word out, and Creating Web Pages Simplified offers an easy, visual way to learn how to build one. Full-color illustrations and concise instructions take you through all phases of Web publishing, from laying out and formatting text to enlivening pages with graphics and animation. This easy-to-follow visual guide shows you the building blocks of a Web page and how to work with images, create links and forms, generate dynamic content using JavaScript, use style sheets, and publish a page on the Web. You'll learn to use HTML, create simple yet attractive Web pages, and enhance them with frames, multimedia effects, links, and more. Features full-color illustrations with step-by-step instructions Covers everything you need to get started, including how to use HTML, how to lay out pages and format text, and how to add graphics and visual effects Shows how to make your pages more interesting with animation and sound, add links to other sites, include e-mail addresses, and more Includes a tear card with HTML tag references and a web-safe color chart to keep handy as you build your pages If you've ever thought about building a web page, Creating Web Pages Simplified is simply the easiest way to make it happen.

In a complex world, products that are easy to use win favor with consumers. This is the first book on the topic of simplicity aimed specifically at interaction designers. It shows how to drill down and simplify user experiences when designing digital tools and applications. It begins by explaining why simplicity is attractive, explores the laws of simplicity, and presents proven strategies for achieving simplicity. Remove, hide, organize and displace become guidelines for designers, who learn simplicity by seeing before and after examples and case studies where the results speak for themselves.

"Completely revised for standards compliance, including CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0"--Cover.

Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has revisited his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. Updated in collaboration with co-author Ethan Marcotte, this third edition covers improvements and challenges in the changing environment of standards-based design. Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest, Designing with Web Standards remains your essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain. Substantially revised—packed with new ideas How will HTML5, CSS3, and web fonts change your work? Learn new strategies for selling standards Change what “IE6 support” means “Occasionally (very occasionally) you come across an author who makes you think, ‘This guy is smart! And he makes me feel smarter, because now I finally understand this concept.’” — Steve Krug, author of Don’t Make Me Think and Rocket Surgery Made Easy “A web designer without a copy of Designing with Web Standards is like a carpenter without a level. With this third edition, Zeldman continues to be the voice of clarity; explaining the complex in plain English for the rest of us.” — Dan Cederholm, author, Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS “Jeffrey Zeldman sits somewhere between ‘guru’ and ‘god’ in this industry—and manages to fold wisdom and wit into a tale about WHAT web standards are, HOW standards-based coding works, and WHY we should care.” — Kelly Goto, author, Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works “Some books are meant to be read. Designing with Web Standards is even more: intended to be highlighted, dogeared, bookmarked, shared, passed around, and evangelized, it goes beyond reading to revolution.” — Liz Danzico, Chair, MFA Interaction Design, School of Visual Arts

Learning basic web design or HTML and CSS can be a daunting task. If you are like most people, then you have a very basic knowledge of what website design and development is and the concepts behind it. You may know a bit about HTML and CSS or what the basic layout of website looks like. But designing and developing your own site is far more complex and requires skills you do not yet have. This book endeavors to throw light on the basics of website design and development and provide a thorough overview of the markup language HTML and CSS. In it you will find all you need to know about HTML and CSS, from its history to its syntax and working. If you are new to web design and programming this book will help you hone your skills and master HTML and CSS usage and structure. Even if you have some familiarity with the HTML and CSS languages you will still will find this web design and programming book a helpful reference while writing HTML and CSS code. The book is divided into five main sections that cover all major aspects of website design and development using HTML and CSS. The first introduces you to HTML, its history and it use. The second gives an introduction to the working of the internet and where HTML fits into the context. There is a detailed description of HTML tags, attributes and elements and how to use them in web design and programming. The third section deals with the concept of CSS in website design and development: what it is, why we should use it and more importantly, when. Then there is a section where different IDEs are discussed where you can develop HTML code and see how it will appear on the web. We have chosen MS FrontPage and Adobe Dream Weaver for their website design and development popularity, simplicity and availability. Finnaly we included a brief introduction to web hosting and CMS will familiarize you with Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal. This is a natural next step when it comes to web design and programming. The book is full of website design and development examples and screenshots that will help the reader understand the code better and try working on code on their own. It is written in a very simple and comprehensive way and does not require any advance knowledge of website design and development software and programming. If you have used the internet only for e-mailing or social networking, you can still understand this web design and programming book and start working on developing your own webpages before uploading them on the worldwide web. HTML and CSS are the simplest website design and development tools and it is prudent to start with it as your first step in the long journey to understanding programming languages, especially the ones used to design web-based applications. This is the starting point for just about everyone when it comes to web design and programming. We hope you enjoy reading the website design and development book and that it proves helpful and useful for you. Table Of Contents For This Web Design And Programming Book: Welcome to Web Design and Programming History and Introduction of HTML and CSS The Internet & Web Design and Development Introduction to HTML HTML Tags and Their Attributes How To Use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in Web Design and Programming HTML Forms and HTML Entities Images, Tables and Lists Web Hosting and Content Management Systems Summary Grab your copy today!