Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics, 3/e (Paperback)

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Since the last edition of this book appeared three years ago, there has been a major climate change with regard to web standards. Designers are no longer using (X)HTML as a design tool, but as a means of defining the meaning and structure of content. Cascading Style Sheets are no longer just something interesting to tinker with, but rather a reliable method for handling all matters of presentation, from fonts and colors to the layout of the entire page. In fact, following the standards is now a mandate of professional web design.

In this update to the popular book, Learning Web Design, author Jennifer Niederst Robbins shares the knowledge she's gained from years of web design experience, both as a designer and a teacher. This book starts from the beginning -- defining the basic components of how the Internet works and what comprises web sites -- and builds from there. After reading this book, you'll have a solid foundation in HTML, CSS, graphics, and design principles that you can immediately put to use in creating effective web pages.

In the third edition, Jennifer has updated the book to cover CSS, rich media applications, web standards, and much more. She has also added exercises that help you to learn various techniques and short quizzes that make sure you're up to speed with key concepts. The companion CD-ROM contains material for all the exercises in the book, as well as trial versions of popular software for graphics creation and editing, web-page and web-site creation, and audio- and video- integration.

Unlike other beginner books, Learning Web Design leaves no holes in your education. It gives you everything you need to create basic web sites and will prepare you for more advanced web work. If you are interested in web design, this book is the place to start. After finishing it, you'll be ready for the author's bestselling companion reference, Web Design in a Nutshell.

 

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Part I Getting Started
Chapter 1
Where Do I Start? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Am I Too Late? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Where Do I Start? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
What Do I Need to Learn? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Do I Need to Learn Java? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
What Do I Need to Buy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
What You’ve Learned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Test Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 2
How the Web Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Internet Versus the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Serving Up Your Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
A Word About Browsers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Web Page Addresses (URLs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The Anatomy of a Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Putting It All Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Test Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Browser Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Description

自從這本書的上一版出版三年前，網頁標準已經發生了重大的氣候變化。設計師們不再將(X)HTML作為設計工具，而是將其作為定義內容意義和結構的手段。層疊樣式表(CSS)不再只是一個有趣的嘗試，而是一種可靠的方法，用於處理所有與呈現有關的事項，從字體和顏色到整個頁面的佈局。事實上，遵循標準現在已經成為專業網頁設計的要求。

在這本暢銷書的更新版《學習網頁設計》中，作者Jennifer Niederst Robbins分享了她多年的網頁設計經驗，無論是作為設計師還是教師。這本書從基礎開始，定義了互聯網的基本組成部分以及網站的組成，並從此基礎上進一步發展。閱讀完這本書後，您將對HTML、CSS、圖形和設計原則有扎實的基礎，可以立即應用於創建有效的網頁。

在第三版中，Jennifer更新了書中的內容，包括CSS、豐富媒體應用、網頁標準等等。她還添加了幫助您學習各種技巧的練習和確保您掌握關鍵概念的簡短測驗。附帶的光碟包含了書中所有練習的材料，以及用於圖形創建和編輯、網頁和網站創建以及音頻和視頻集成的流行軟件的試用版本。

與其他初學者書籍不同，《學習網頁設計》不會讓您的學習中留下任何空白。它為您提供了創建基本網站所需的一切，並為您做好更高級網頁工作的準備。如果您對網頁設計感興趣，這本書是您開始的地方。在完成它之後，您將準備好閱讀作者暢銷的參考書《網頁設計大全》。

目錄

前言

第一部分 開始

第1章 從哪裡開始？

第2章 網頁如何運作