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Teach yourself visually web design
by Rob Huddleston
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From the Publisher: The mechanics of Web design made easy for visual learners. An effective Web site combines good graphic design principles with a functional user interface. This colorful, step-by-step guide shows visual learners how to plan, develop, and publish a site, all with easy-to-follow lessons. Each task is illustrated with screen shots accompanied by numbered steps. You'll learn all the tools and techniques for creating great-looking Web sites that users will love. -- Good Web design incorporates basic graphic design principles as well as the techniques required to make a site easy to navigate and user-friendly -- Those who learn best when someone shows them how will quickly get up to speed with the full-color screen shots and step-by-step illustrations in this visual guide -- Covers planning a site, creating eye-popping content with popular Adobe tools, building in functionality with HTML and CSS, testing the site, taking it live, and keeping it up to date -- Companion Web site features code and design examples for experimentation -- If you find learning easier when someone shows you how to do something, you'll quickly learn to build Web sites with Teach Yourself VISUALLY Web Design.
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Web Design
2010, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Teach Yourself Visually Web Design
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Web Design
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Web Design
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Tools Of Web Design And Planning Your Site
Brief history of the web
Understanding browsers
Visual design tools
Code-based tools
Graphics programs
Understanding the importance of planning your site
Understanding your audience
Gather your materials
Plan your navigation structure
Plan your file structure
Chapter 2: Getting Started With HTML
Introduction to HTML
Create your first web page
Save your web page
Preview a page in a browser
Declare your document type
Add headings
Add paragraphs
Apply logical formatting
Understanding URLs and file paths
Link to other pages in your site
Link to pages on the web
Link within a page
Link to an e-mail address
Link to other document types
Show tool tips for links
Chapter 3: Creating Images
Understanding image formats
Legally acquiring stock images
Understanding image optimization
Download a stock image from the web
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Get to know the Photoshop interface
Get to know the Photoshop Elements interface
Use Photoshop to fix colors
Crop and resize an image in Photoshop
Save an image for the web in Photoshop
Open an image for the web in Photoshop
Open an image for editing in Photoshop elements
Use Photoshop Elements to fix colors
Rotate an image in Photoshop Elements
Crop an image in Photoshop Elements
Resize an image in Photoshop Elements
Save an image for the web in Photoshop Elements
Get to know the Fireworks interface
Get to know the Illustrator interface
Create a button in Fireworks
Save an image for the web in Fireworks
Create a logo in Illustrator
Save an Illustrator image for the web
Add an image to your web page
Make your images accessible
Use images as links
Chapter 4: Formatting Your Pages
Introduction to CSS
Create an embedded style sheet
Understanding units of measurement
Set the font and text size on your page
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Understanding color on the web
Determine a color scheme using Kuler
Set text color
Set a background color
Add a background image
Control background image tiling
Position background images
Apply additional text formatting
Indent and align text
Apply spacing with padding
Control whitespace with margins
Specify widths
Add borders
Chapter 5: Advanced CSS
Style multiple elements
Format text with spans
Group elements with divs
Apply styles with classes
Apply styles with IDs
Use contextual selectors
Use pseudo-elements
Use pseudo-classes
Create an external style sheet
Link a style sheet to a page
Use the cascade
Chapter 6: Laying Out Pages
Set up your page for CSS layouts
Float elements
Use margins and padding to fix float problems
Work with overflow
Chapter 7: Adding Tables And Lists
Add data tables
Format tables with CSS
Create complex tables
Add a header row
Add table sections
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Add an unordered list
Add an ordered list
Style lists
Chapter 8: Creating A Page Visually In Dreamweaver
Introduction to Dreamweaver's interface
Define a site in Dreamweaver
Create a new document
Replace the logo placeholder
Replace the main content
Replace the content in the sidebar and footer
Add navigation
Add images
Insert a Photoshop image
Edit a Photoshop image in Dreamweaver
Modify CSS
Add new styles
Preview the page using live view
Preview the page in a browser
Preview the page in other browsers using BrowserLab
Chapter 9: Adding Interactivity And Multimedia
Introduction to JavaScript and Ajax
Embed JavaScript in HTML
Write a function
Change the visibility of an object
Create a menu using Spry
Create a calendar control with YUI
Create an image gallery with jQuery
Create animation using Flash Professional
Publish a Flash movie
Add a Flash movie to your page in Dreamweaver
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Convert a video to Flash video
Add Flash video using Flash Professional
Add video with HTML5
Chapter 10: Making Sites Accessible
Understanding web standards
Understanding web accessibility
Add captions and summaries to tables
Create accessible table headings
Create accessible navigation
Chapter 11: Adding Forms To Your Site
Create a form
Add a text field
Add a label
Add check boxes
Add radio buttons
Create a drop-down list
Insert a text area
Add a button to your form
Group related form elements
Chapter 12: Creating Dynamic Pages
Understanding dynamic web applications
Download and install WAMP on Windows
Download and install MAMP on a Mac
Create a basic PHP page
Save and test a PHP page
Process form data
Send e-mail with PHP
Include external files
Create your own PHP function
Chapter 13: Adding Information From A Database
Understanding relational databases
Create a database
Create a table
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Populate the table with data
Connect PHP to the database
Display the contents of a table on a web page
Search the database
Insert new data into a table with PHP
Chapter 14: Publishing Your Site And Getting Noticed
Find a web host
Buy a domain name
Publish your web site using FTP
Set up remote server information in Dreamweaver
Upload your files using Dreamweaver
Understanding search engine optimization
Use meta tags
Use Google webmaster tools
Create a sitemap
Prevent pages from being listed on search engines
HTML colors
Index.
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Edition Notes
Includes index.
"The fast and easy way to learn" --Cover.
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