Web Design Workshop: Robin Williams, John Tollett, David Rohr

Robin Williams
Web Design Workshop

By:
John Tollett
Robin Williams
David Rohr
372 pages
ISBN 0-201-74867-3
US $39.99
Canada $59.95
UK £29.99

Peachpit Press

Text from the back cover:

Thanks to Robin Williams, non-designers and designers alike have learned the principles of graphic and web design. Robin now teams with co-authors John Tollett and David Rohr to pool their web design, illustration, and graphics experience to create a lavish and engaging guide to more advanced design and web principles. The concepts in this book address web design and technology, including how typefaces, clipart, photographs, and other elements contribute to creating a visual impression. Learn their favorite tips, tricks, and techniques in site planning and layout, navigation, and functionality, all in a clear and accessible style. For professional and aspiring web designers, this book provides practical and effective web design principles, concepts, and counsel for any project.

You’ll learn to:

• Break out of the “HTML box” by designing visually instead of by code
• Take advantage of slicing your layouts to design more creatively and efficiently
• Build navigation systems that enhance both design and functionality
• Incorporate usability factors
• Include enhanced features in your sites, including rollovers, image swaps, cascading style sheets, DHTML, Flash animations, and more.
• Plan your site development: organize the work flow, build a team, design the interface, complete production, test, and schedule maintenance
• Organize your content by building site maps
• Create successful client relationships

Feedback:

“A note to say thank you and to your co-authors for your wonderful book (Web Design Workshop) and site. I am a "newbie", a recent graduate of a 7 month web design program and your book is a not only a wonderful refresher but will also become a frequently thumbed valuable resource guide. I have not finished reading your book from cover to cover yet but already I can say that I only wish my program could have been presented in such a concise, unintimidating manner. It seems that with many of the programs being offered, the instructors' main role almost seems to be to throw out just enough information to say you've had instruction but not quite enough to get you into production. Your book has instilled a new found confidence in my abilities.”

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