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ABOUT THE BOOK:-
Who better to ease you into the detailed world of HTML coding (where even an errant spacebar can gum up your creative masterpiece) than well-known Web design instructor Lynda Weinman and her programmer brother, William. This book`s first edition came out over 3 years ago, and the Web has changed a lot in that time. Novices will appreciate this HTML primer that not only helps in hand-coding Web pages but also in troubleshooting the HTML generated by WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors like Dreamweaver and GoLive and image/animation applications like Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, and ImageReady.
Creative HTML Design.2 covers basic page structure, images and compression, color, links, buttons, transparency, typography, organization, style sheets, navigation, rollovers, forms, and other issues. (A good description of the first edition, including a sample chapter, can currently be found at www.lynda.com; this new edition will most likely be detailed there soon as well. They also maintain an errata section, important for any book that includes code.) Lynda Weinman`s specialty is her friendly yet tech-savvy teaching style--there aren`t many who can walk readers through the minutiae of client-side image map coordinates and not confuse them (or bore them to tears). Brother William[SS1], an engineer and programmer, presumably provides the finer points of HTML, plus the JavaScript and CGI scripts. The book offers all the good aspects of Weinman`s other popular books: text that`s affable yet clear, with a view to anticipating problems beginners may stumble into; lesson projects that are neither too complex nor aesthetically amateur; and a book layout that doesn`t crowd pages, but rather serves up ministeps and clearly captioned screen shots in easily digested morsels.
With editors that do it all--like Dreamweaver and GoLive--why would a non-tech-head Web designer want to learn HTML? As Weinman explains, "The advantage of knowing and understanding HTML is that you are in better control of knowing what is possible and what is not." Even if you use an HTML editor, you will at some point have to go "under the hood" and fix troubled code, and at this point even a little familiarity can make a big difference in relieving Web design stress. --Angelynn Grant
Topics covered:
Choosing an ISP
Creating a basic page and uploading
Creating graphics, including how compression works
Web color palettes and color tags
Links, alt text, image maps
Background images and tiled patterns
Custom rules, bullets, and other artwork
Working with transparency
Tables
Typography and fonts
Site planning and management
Cascading style sheets (CSS)
Frames
Rollovers
Forms
Animation and sound
Listing with search engines
HTML 4.0 reference, including the finer points of "good HTML"
CD includes all project files for sample Web site used in lessons as well as JavaScript and CGI scripts used
From the Publisher
Behind all web design, there is code. Many accomplished web designers do their work in WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver or GoLive, but many others work largely in Notepad or other text editors. And even using WYSIWYG front-ends doesn’t get you off the hook when it’s time to troubleshoot. You still have to pop the hood and tweak the code behind your design. Fact is, if you want to be a better web designer, you need to truly understand, retain control over, and exploit the power of HTML.
And no book walks web designers through this better than Lynda and Bill Weinman’s . The first edition was a bestseller since its release in 1998; the new edition has been updated to address technological developments we’ve all seen since: the maturation of WYSISYG editors, the advent of Flash and motion graphics, need-to-know updates on best practices in working with Photoshop, and more.
What makes this book different is its extraordinary combination of practical learning and thorough coverage. is no dummies book, and it’s definitely not one of those doorstops disguised as a bible. It’s written for you, the designer. The lessons are easy to take and will make you a quick study as you walk through the process of learning and practicing HTML. This stuff isn’t hard; it’s liberating. Bill Weinman is an enormously talented programmer; teamed with his sister, the Weinmans have an unsurpassed talent for making the intricacies of how code works accessible to anyone. And with Lynda, you know that it’s all done with style, grace, and good humor.
It’s pretty simple: Vital information, chunked logically, and paced sanely: Introduction of a subject, concise explanations, and brief hands-on exercises using code supplied on the CD that bundles with the book. (The parts of the HTML code you need to modify yourself are set in a second color to make it that much easier to do yourself.) You can work through the book beginning-to-end, or you can keep it on hand as the most user-friendly code reference a designer could ever want. ISBN - 9780735709720
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