How to design websites /
This text addresses the skillsets required to produce websites that are functional and elegant but from a graphic designer's perspective. It demonstrates that you can design a working website in minutes without the need for expensive programs.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Laurence King,
2011.
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| Series: | Portfolio skills. Graphic design.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction and background: What is the internet?
- Email and domains
- Newsgroups
- The World Wide Web (WWW)
- Designing for the World Wide Web
- Host and hosting
- FTP: uploading and downloading
- Domains
- Web design for graphic designers
- Browser compatibility
- Code: Getting started in HTML
- Helper applications
- Step-by-step 1: instant websites: a customized blog
- Trailblazer 1: Joshua Davis
- Layout: Frames and tables
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- Layout in CSS
- Navigation
- Nesting divs
- Accessiblity
- Usability
- Step-by-step 2: a simple handmade XHTML/CSS website using a template
- Trailblazer 2: Erik Spiekermann
- Text and typography: Selecting fonts in HTML
- Text
- The language of type
- How type is measured
- Font weights, variants and properties
- Other typographic facilities
- Step-by-step 3: a basic portfolio website
- Trailblazer 3: Gringo
- Images and colour schemes: Graphics formats: GIFs, JPEGs and PNGs
- Colour
- Colour theory
- Colour schemes
- Step-by-step 4: developing a website using background colours and faux columns
- Trailblazer 4: Soleil Noir
- Added extras: SSI (Service Side Includes)
- Animated GIFs
- Flash
- JavaScript
- E-commerce
- Content-management systems
- Websites for handheld mobile devices
- Web 2.0, HTML5 and the future.
