Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics,   ISBN:9780596527525

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I felt the need to express how well written this book is for the beginning web designer. The author doesn't bog the reader down with overly complex examples of code. I've been designing web pages using Dreamweaver for a few years now and never bothered with the code. I've always created my content in Photoshop and just dropped the images into the software. After reading through this book, I am not only able to simplify my web pages through code editing, but also, was able to optimize my graphics content.
Right now, I am now trudging through a book to learn JavaScript. I am getting through the book, but not nearly as easily as I did the Learning Web Design book. To be fair, the subject is a bit more complex, but the way that the JavaScript book is written causes me to have to constantly look up unexplained technical terms and syntax of the code examples to figure out why they work. I never had to do that with the Learning Web Design book.

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This is an excellent book on Web design and covers everything from where to start, to how the browser does request/response protocols (in a very comfortable visual way) to Web Graphics.

However, the price of the book was worth the section on CSS!

I have been beating my head against a wall trying to understand how CSS layouts actually work and how positions, floats and web page flow works. It seems very inconsistent and confusing. But the CSS section has great examples to describe how CSS 2.x works, how block and in-line elements flow, how element types effect eachother in the flow and it has GREAT exercises and experiments to help the reader understand what is happening. The author also goes into the quirks between browsers and how the different browsers handle CSS differently.

This book doesn't do like so many other books and just give one patterns to copy without an understanding of what is happening. To me, this book would be worth it for just the CSS Section.

I have also enjoyed the section on Web Graphics and how browsers handle them. Great book.

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This book is excellent. It's an elementary textbook on HTML that is really thorouh. The author's approce is straightforward for novices, and included enough detail to be a valuable review for experienced site developers.

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This book is amazing! There is beginning background information and takes small steps to ensure you understand how and why you do certain things in regards to designing a web page. It offers many resources and links to more information for those who want to get more technical. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in designing a web page!

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I really liked this book,really covers all beginner stuff and not a techinacal book only, also introduces the trends of web desing,guiding you if you want to go on deeper any part of web desing.