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The Non-Designer's Web Book: an Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site by: Robin Williams, John Tollett List Price: £24.99 City Travel Guides Price: £23.74 You Save: £1.25 ( 5%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72 EAN: 9780321303370 ISBN: 0321303377 Label: Peachpit Press Manufacturer: Peachpit Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: October 06, 2005 Publisher: Peachpit Press Studio: Peachpit Press Sales Rank: 94978 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: While The Non-Designer's Web Book won't answer all your technical questions about the inner workings of the Web, it explains most of what a beginning designer needs to know: what the Web is, how it gets to your computer, how to use it, and most of all how to design for it. Any artist can tell you that you have to know how a medium works to get the most impact working in it. A basic understanding of how the Web works enables the good designer to create sites with the most effect. This book thoroughly discusses the different kinds of graphics used on the Web, when to use one over another, how to make the most of text styles, and how to design navigation systems. The comparisons are the best stuff here--good design vs. bad design, why designing Web pages and printed pages is different, and why a site looks terrific on one monitor but terrible on another one. Two chapters on properly preparing graphics and setting typography for Web site use describe how to avoid obvious mistakes that would make your work look amateurish. Not limited to design, Non-Designer shows you how to get a site up and running, register the domain name, and add it to search engines. After the design is finished and implemented, the site has to be uploaded and updated, and that's explained too. If there is one fault with this book, it's the lack of information on specific authoring tools. The barest overview of the current crop of tools appears in chapter 3, "Just What Are Web Pages, Anyway?" but a discussion of why you should choose one package over another is absent. Don't let that stop you from buying this book, though. Plenty of magazines regularly have Web authoring tool "shootouts." What the magazines don't tell you, and what Non-Designer excels at, is how to make well-designed pages. If you're going to build Web sites, for either personal or professional use, but you have no clue where to begin, start with this book. It's easy to read, it's devoid of confusing jargon, and it's full of do's and don'ts to help you avoid common snags. --Mike Caputo Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - This book should be made compulsary readingRead the title - "The Non-designer's Web Book". This is who it is for. I am a web designer and I read this book a couple of years ago. Yes it can be a little patronising and yes it can be a little too basic at times but it outlines the basics of design (not specifically web design) that sadly alot of designers don't seem to be interested in these days. I came onto Amazon to buy this book for one of my new designers. I am buying it for him because although I can train him to use Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop, it is almost impossible to teach someone what actually LOOKS good. There are basic rules in this book that must be adhered to when creating a website and if my designer only learns 1 or 2 things from this book, ... Read More: Rating:  - Patronizing and information-poorThis is not a good book. The tone is condescending and the garbage-to-information ratio is very high. The book contains about three hundred pages of which the first eighty or so go into great length about exactly what this "World Wide Web" thing is, what a browser is, what a server is, etc. If you're at the stage of writing your own web pages I think you'll know all this already so why bother to include it? Besides being information-poor, the text is full of irritating asides, exclamation marks and waffle: do the authors really need to tell you how to pronounce "GIF"? Worse, the book makes a number of fundamental errors: - Unreasonable assumptions are made: that you are using a WYSIWYG editor (not a good ... Read More: Rating: - This book seems to assume that the reader is an idiotI may be a "non-designer" but this does not mean that I'm a moron. Yet this book assumes just that: it is patronising, condescending, verbose and unnecessarily elementary. I want to write web pages and I'm looking for a few tips on how to ensure that my pages don't look rubbish. I certainly don't need a chapter telling me exactly what this "World Wide Web" thing is or a chapter on using search engines. Yet the first four chapters (and eighty pages out of three hundred) are on just such sub-basic topics. The rest of the book is irritatingly cute and the text is littered with superfluous exclamation marks, sappy asides and stuff that just does not need to be there. Page 176 has two lines on how to pronounce "GIF"; why? Worse, the book makes some ... Read More: Rating: - the best web design book I've seen.Instead of taking you through the intricacies of HTML, this book concentrates on what makes a site appealing to visitors. It introduces the basic principles of design and explains how to make graphics work well on the web. We used it to help build our very first site and still use the principles it taught us now we build sites for other people. Rating: - Absolutely first class guide to webpage designThis book is a 'must read' for anyone who may be new to design in general and webpages in particular. Gives easy to follow guidance on layout, formatting, use of colour etc in a very readable format. |
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