Head First Web Design

By Ethan Watrall, Jeff Siarto
December 2008
Pages: 495
Series: Head First
ISBN 10: 0-596-52030-1 | ISBN 13: 9780596520304
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Want to know how to make your web pages look beautiful, communicate your message effectively, and guide visitors through your website with ease? Whether you're building a personal blog or a corporate website, Head First Web Design is your ticket to mastering the secrets of designing effective, user-friendly sites, from customer requirements to hand-drawn storyboards all the way to finished HTML and CSS online productions.
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Want to know how to make your pages look beautiful, communicate your message effectively, guide visitors through your website with ease, and get everything approved by the accessibility and usability police at the same time? Head First Web Design is your ticket to mastering all of these complex topics, and understanding what's really going on in the world of web design.

Whether you're building a personal blog or a corporate website, there's a lot more to web design than div's and CSS selectors, but what do you really need to know? With this book, you'll learn the secrets of designing effective, user-friendly sites, from customer requirements to hand-drawn storyboards all the way to finished HTML and CSS creations that offer an unforgettable online presence.

Your time is way too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First Web Design uses a visually rich format specifically designed to take advantage of the way your brain really works.

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Easy read. Only for beginners., January 20 2009

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Similar to the only other book in the Head First series that I read (Head
First HTML with CSS & XHTML), this book is a very easy read. It is
graphical and not filled with big technical words that just prove to be
confusing.

If you're already a web designer, looking for a reference book, this book
is not for you. (In that case I would recommend CSS Cookbook). This book
is meant more for developers who are already comfortable with HTML & CSS
that would like to take a crack at designing standards compliant websites.
However, this book could be a good refresher if you are a designer who has
been out of the industry for a while.

By reading this book, you won't learn the fundamentals of design, but more
so on how to evaluate a site based on usability. It focuses largely on the
workflow someone should get accustomed to. There are lots of different
activities, not forcing you to sit through a book long tutorial. However,
it is not recommended to skip any of these lessons.

Another good feature is that all of the required files are online, so as
long as you have an internet connection, you're good to go.

Reviewed by ELUG (http://elug.ca/reviews/head_first_web_design.shtml)

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"As with any good teacher, this O’Reilly series attacks the material from a variety of angles. If you know it, or you’re a quick learner, you can breeze right through. If you’re like me, they try everything possible to make things comprehensible."
-- Dana Blankenhorn, Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney, ZDNet.com

"This is an excellent and most necessary book for the design of sophisticated, information architectures, and usable beautiful web sites that serve both the user and the organization that commissioned them. "
-- Ira Laefsky, Amazon.com

"Both books [Head First Web Design and Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual] are excellent for their intended audiences (novice web designer and more advanced web page designer) and complementary to each other; both are appropriate for public and academic libraries."
-- J. Sara Paulk, The Tech Static

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