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In this handsome, full-color book for Web designers, Web expert Lynda Weinman and artist Jon Warren Lentz team up to present you with case studies of successfully designed Web sites. The authors interview the artists and programmers who produced each site and dissect the problems and solutions behind each site. The companies whose sites are highlighted include Qaswa, a Web-design company; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; Bosch Power Tools, a manufacturer of powered hand tools; National Geographic Society; Akimbo, a Web-design company; and @tlas, a Web magazine. The case studies offer a wide variety of advice: you get tips on using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Macromedia Flash, DreamWeaver, Shockwave, RealAudio, BBEdit, and GifBuilder; moving from CD-ROM to Web design; understanding tables, frames, Dynamic HTML, cascading style sheets, and JavaScript; and working with information architecture, navigation, and color. An appendix provides brief information on Web color, hexadecimal color, image compression, and Web file formats, and another offers contact information for the book's contributors. The glossary contains computer and design terms. --Kathleen Caster
From Library Journal
Weinman is a one-woman graphics factory turning out essential web-design guides. Coloring Web Graphics is a simply beautiful description of browser/platform safe colors. Anyone who has carefully designed a web site only to view what looks like a bizarre parody on a friend's machine will welcome this work. The CD is full of color palettes and clip art. Deconstructing is a total case study approach to understanding web design. This hands-on, backwards look at existing web sites includes examinations of the site code in html, Java, JavaScript, ShockWave, and even PhotoShop that produced the sites. Designing Web Graphics is a total approach to building a successful web site, from advice on buying hardware to animation techniques. Especially clear discussions of graphics formats (e.g., jpegs vs. gifs) and navigational graphics are augmented in this second edition with updated information on frames, interactivity, and more. In early summer, look for Preparing Web Graphics (ISBN 1-56205-686-7. $39.99) and Creative HTML Design (ISBN Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Book News, Inc.
Profiles Web sites developed by six different creative teams and explores the inspirations and methods of artists and programmers involved. Interviews with Web designers demystify and analyze how they make decisions, solve complex problems, and create exceptional Web sites, explaining real-world problems and solutions in the context of real projects. Includes color illustrations, step-by-step tutorials, and code. Of interest to Web designers, programmers, photographers, and illustrators. Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
Book Description
Deconstructing Web Graphics.2 profiles top Web designers and programmers in order to demystify and analyze how they make decisions, solve complex issues, and create exceptional Web sites. Adding his voice and digital design teaching experiences to the book, artist and journalist Jon Warren Lentz offers insights and analysis from his list of favorite Web sites. He walks you through how to read and understand the source code for each page, break down all of the technical elements, and describes the inside details straight from the designers and programmers who created the pages.Lynda Weinman uses the proven and popular reverse-engineering teaching style (learn by undoing) to demonstrate how the most successful web pages are createdThe only book to give you behind-the-scenes looks, candid interviews, and original HTML files that provide rare insight into the art and science of great web design
Book Info
Profiles top web designers and programmers in order to demystify and analyze how they make decisions, solve complex issues, and create exceptional web sites. Paper.
From the Publisher
This is a behind-the-scenes look at how some of today's best Web sites were created. Ten popular and critically praised Web sites are looked at piece by piece to analyze why they work so well. - Includes in-depth detail on how the pages are coded, graphics are created, tables and forms are constructed, scripts are implemented, and other design aspects are integrated
- Presented in elegant yet functional full-color and 8 x 10 format
- Features expert tips from the best-selling author of Designing Web Graphics
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