Book description
Web designers must wear many hats. Among books on Web design, Web Design All-in-One For Dummies is the one that helps you successfully wear all those hats without losing your head.
Full-color illustrations and five self-contained minibooks show you how to be a graphic designer, creative organizer, visual communicator, markup language technologist, and cutting-edge trendsetter, all in one. This book helps you lay the groundwork, follow design rules, test your site, register a domain name, and much more.
Getting Started covers planning, defining your target audience, choosing the right software, and more
Designing For the Web acquaints you with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, plus how to choose a layout and optimize graphics
Building Web Sites gets down to nuts and bolts: putting text, images, hyperlinks, and multimedia files together, organizing content, and building navigation systems
Web Standards & Testing teaches you how to test and validate so everyone can enjoy your site
Publishing & Site Maintenance helps you get your site online and keep it current
Web Design All-in-One For Dummies also helps you learn how to choose a Web editor and graphics program, how to make your site accessible to the widest possible audience, and when it’s time to call in a pro like author Sue Jenkins. It’s just what you need to start and manage a great site.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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I. Getting Started
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1. Starting with a Plan
- 1.1. Understanding the Different Phases of a Web Project
- 1.2. Determining the Site's Purpose
- 1.3. Building a Site Image
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1.4. Determining Site Content
- 1.4.1. Minimum requirements
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1.4.2. Marketing and sales content
- 1.4.2.1. Company information
- 1.4.2.2. Biography
- 1.4.2.3. Product/service information
- 1.4.2.4. News and press information
- 1.4.2.5. Video and podcasts
- 1.4.2.6. Portfolio
- 1.4.2.7. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- 1.4.2.8. Site search
- 1.4.2.9. Terms of service
- 1.4.2.10. Shopping cart
- 1.4.2.11. Customer service (Help)
- 1.4.2.12. Site credits
- 1.4.2.13. XHTML, HTML, CSS, and 508 compliance information
- 1.4.2.14. RSS feeds
- 1.5. Diagnosing the Site's Dynamic Requirements
- 1.6. Defining Ways to Attract Visitors
- 2. Defining the Audience
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3. Gathering Content
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3.1. Defining Site Content Requirements
- 3.1.1. Gathering content
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3.1.2. Crafting the vision of the site
- 3.1.2.1. In addition to a home page, what other main pages do you want on the site?
- 3.1.2.2. Do you want an About page or section to provide company information?
- 3.1.2.3. What do you want to include on the Contact page?
- 3.1.2.4. Do you want to have a Clients page that lists past and current clients?
- 3.1.2.5. If you're selling products, do you want to have a Products page?
- 3.1.2.6. Will you have an e-commerce component on the site and, if so, what kind of shopping cart will be used?
- 3.1.2.7. Do you need a Services page to list all the services your company provides?
- 3.1.2.8. Do you want a page that describes what the company produces?
- 3.1.2.9. How about a page for news or press releases?
- 3.1.2.10. What about an Events page?
- 3.1.2.11. What about other industry-specific pages?
- 3.1.2.12. What about including an RSS feed?
- 3.1.2.13. Will the site need any other pages?
- 3.1.2.14. Does the text on the site need to appear in multiple languages?
- 3.1.2.15. What elements — text and graphical — should appear on every page?
- 3.1.2.16. Who will provide all the graphics, photos, and illustrations for the site as well as branding information?
- 3.1.2.17. Does anything else need to go on the site?
- 3.2. Building Wireframes
- 3.3. Gathering Text and Graphics
- 3.4. Organizing Site Content
- 3.5. Building a Site Map
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3.1. Defining Site Content Requirements
- 4. Choosing the Right Tools
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1. Starting with a Plan
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II. Designing for the Web
- 5. Defining the Look and Feel
- 6. Mocking Up the Design
- 7. Slicing and Optimizing Web Graphics
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III. Building Web Sites
- 8. Adding Text, Images, and Links
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9. Organizing Content with Tables and Lists
- 9.1. Inserting Tables on a Page
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9.2. Formatting Tables
- 9.2.1. The id attribute
- 9.2.2. Table widths and heights
- 9.2.3. Table and cell alignment
- 9.2.4. Table borders
- 9.2.5. Cellpadding and cellspacing attributes
- 9.2.6. Table headers
- 9.2.7. The nowrap attribute
- 9.2.8. Splitting and merging table cells
- 9.2.9. Background and border colors
- 9.2.10. Tiling background images
- 9.2.11. Nesting tables
- 9.3. Inserting Lists on a Page
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10. Styling with Cascading Style Sheets
- 10.1. Understanding CSS Basics
- 10.2. Working with CSS Style Selectors
- 11. Understanding CSS Style Properties
- 12. Creating Web Layouts
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13. Constructing Navigation Systems
- 13.1. Assessing the Navigational Needs of Your Site
- 13.2. Discovering the Basic Principles of Navigation Systems
- 13.3. Choosing the Right Menu for Your Site
- 13.4. Creating Text Navigation Menus
- 13.5. Creating Rollover Button Graphic Navigation Menus
- 13.6. Creating Multitier Spry Menus in Dreamweaver
- 13.7. Creating CSS List Navigation Menus
- 14. Designing Web Forms
- 15. Making Your Pages Interactive
- 16. Building Web Sites
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IV. Book IV Web Standards and Testing
- 17. Following Web Standards
- 18. Testing, Accessibility, Compliance, and Validation
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V. Publishing and Site Maintenance
- 19. Domain Registration and Hosting
- 20. Publishing Your Site
- 21. Search Engine Optimization and Site Maintenance
Product information
- Title: Web Design All-in-One for Dummies®
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2009
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9780470417966
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