Learning Web Design

Learning Web Design
Jennifer Niederst Robbins
O’Reilly Media
ISBN: 0-596-52752-7
Non-Fiction, Computer, Web Design
Reviewed by Vianna Renaud

In this new resource from O’Reilly Media, author Jennifer Niederst Robbins leads both the novice an expert web designer along the journey of exciting web design. A professional web designer and teacher for years, her obvious enthusiasm for creating new and engaging site designs comes alive in each page of Learning Web Design, 3rd Edition: A Beginner’s Guide to (X)HTML, Style Sheets, and Web Graphics. This new edition will equip readers from all backgrounds with the skills they need to create original, multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files.
Organized in five parts, there are dedicated chapters on a variety of important topics, such as getting started, understanding the standards, HTML mark up for structure, CSS techniques, creating web graphics, the site development process and getting your pages on the Web. With clear, easy-to-grasp text, user-friendly graphics, and hands-on exercises, coupled with short quizzes aimed to reinforce key concepts, you will immediately be able to put your knowledge to the test.
As a complete beginner and very conscious of feeling like I was behind the technological wave, I was pleasantly surprised to understand and put into practice the tips and tools listed. I particularly enjoyed the companion website to the book, http://www.learningwebdesign.com, which helped to take my learning to another level. Not only did I realize that there is hope for me yet in learning interesting techniques for my future website, but also that with a resource like this, the sky’s the limit.