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

Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics | Jennifer Niederst Robbins | excellent book

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	Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics Jennifer Niederst Robbins O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 - 479 pages average customer review:based on 35 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

great intro; why doesn't she mention css editors?

This is a very easy intro to xhtml and css. It's got nice full-color pictures, the text is very easy to read and understand, it's well worth the 30 bucks. I'm really glad I read it. The one thing I can't understand is why she doesn't mention css editors, in the software part of the book. She mentions only wysiwyg editors like dreamweaver; since reading the book I've found a css editor that has really helped me both understand and work with css. Something to add in ed. 4?

excellent book

The book is in excellent condition. The shipment was quick.
Thank you very much for it

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Great book for learning web design concepts

For those who are serious about learning web design and its concepts and new standards, here is my favorite book from O'Reilly: "Learning Web Design" by Jennifer Niederst Robbins. This book is "a beginner;s guide to (X)HTML, style sheets (css), and web graphics.

This book was a great insight on using HTML markup for structure and css for presentation. I heard this concept for a while, but couldn't quite grasp it until I read this book. It gave real examples with downloadable files and it's structured more like a classroom in a book so you can follow along the lessons. Jennifer also gave some exercises to test the readers understanding of the material and provided the solutions so reader can check their work. Since I actually was working on menus for my clients, the menu example really came in handy.

This is my very absolute favorite book on web design and I highly recommend it for anyone trying to understand the concepts of HTML markup and CSS

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Some good information, but I'm not digging the "lecture" style

I found the first few chapters to be interesting, learning some of the different branches that a person can go into in web design, and some of the "working terminology" for the different work roles and so forth.

But after a few chapters, as I'm reading I feel like I'm sitting in a big university classroom being told the "only real right way" to be a web designer. The tone of the book and much of the terminology used to describe things leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I'm an open-minded guy looking to get into freelance web design, and any time someone tries to present "the mould which must be fit", when speaking about any topic, it turns me off and I pretty much am not willing to learn from them.

I'm not looking to go out and work for some big corporate company and conform to the "official web design methods" as they seem to be being lain out in this book.

That said, there is a lot to learn in here, and it's a dense book. But I'd agree with a previous reviewer who said that the presentation of the ideas is a bit chaotic and disjointed.

If you're of a mind to be lectured to, this book could be worth taking bits and pieces from here and there, but if you're a free-thinking individual you too might notice that this book seems to be telling you the "only right way", instead of simply laying out the fundamentals of web design.

The author is a big time professor in some big universities, so if you're turned off by the sort of "teaching" that is oftentimes done in such places, you probably don't want to waste your time with this one.

I will check out the table of contents and pick out the best info, but this one isn't a keeper as far as I would say.

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