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1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations |
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text file rdaft |
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Portfolio skills. Graphic design |
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Portfolio skills. Graphic design.
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| Contents |
Introduction and background: What is the internet? -- Email and domains -- Newsgroups -- The World Wide Web (WWW) -- Designing for the World Wide Web -- Host and hosting -- FTP: uploading and downloading -- Domains -- Web design for graphic designers -- Browser compatibility -- Code: Getting started in HTML -- Helper applications -- Step-by-step 1: instant websites: a customized blog -- Trailblazer 1: Joshua Davis -- Layout: Frames and tables -- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) -- Layout in CSS -- Navigation -- Nesting divs -- Accessiblity -- Usability -- Step-by-step 2: a simple handmade XHTML/CSS website using a template -- Trailblazer 2: Erik Spiekermann -- Text and typography: Selecting fonts in HTML -- Text -- The language of type -- How type is measured -- Font weights, variants and properties -- Other typographic facilities -- Step-by-step 3: a basic portfolio website -- Trailblazer 3: Gringo -- Images and colour schemes: Graphics formats: GIFs, JPEGs and PNGs -- Colour -- Colour theory -- Colour schemes -- Step-by-step 4: developing a website using background colours and faux columns -- Trailblazer 4: Soleil Noir -- Added extras: SSI (Service Side Includes) -- Animated GIFs -- Flash -- JavaScript -- E-commerce -- Content-management systems -- Websites for handheld mobile devices -- Web 2.0, HTML5 and the future. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-163) and index. |
| Summary |
This text addresses the skillsets required to produce websites that are functional and elegant but from a graphic designer's perspective. It demonstrates that you can design a working website in minutes without the need for expensive programs. |
| Subject |
Web sites -- Design.
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Web site development.
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Sites Web -- Conception. |
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Sites Web -- Développement. |
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Web site development |
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Web sites -- Design |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Pipes, Alan. How to design websites. London : Laurence King Publishing, 2011 9781856697392 (OCoLC)719428980 |
| ISBN |
178067077X (electronic bk.) |
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9781780670775 (electronic bk.) |
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