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
In this hands-on guide, UX designer Clarissa Peterson explains how responsive web design works, and takes you through a responsive workflow from project kickoff to site launch.
If you don't have these tools , you can soften the whole image yourself by applying a slight blur to the image with the Gaussian Blur filter ( or similar ) and then exporting to JPEG format . You can help JPEG compression by applying a ...
This thoroughly revised edition teaches you how to build web sites according to modern design practices and professional standards.
By applying a slight blur to all or part of the image, you allow the compression scheme to do its work more efficiently. If you are using Photoshop/ImageReady or Fireworks, you will find a setting with the optimization options that ...
This book is aimed at hackers of all skill levels and explains the classical principles and techniques behind beautiful designs by deconstructing those designs in order to understand what makes them so remarkable.
Web design is the process of creating websites. It encompasses several different aspects, including webpage layout, content production, and graphic design. This book offers you everything you need to know for building your websites.
Through hands-on tutorials, this practical guide shows inexperienced web app developers how to create a user interface, write a server, build client-server communication, and use a cloud-based service to deploy the application.
This book, based on Shay Howe's popular workshop covers the basics and breaks down the barrier to entry, showing readers how they can start using HTML and CSS through practical techniques today.
Just take a look at Craig Robinson's Flip Flop Flyin'. Among other forms of tiny art, Craig creates portraits of famous people, bands, and groups that he calls Minipops. The one in Figure 3.2 is a close up of Craig's ATeam Minipop.
Learning Web Design with Adobe CS5: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash