Publisher: O'Reilly
Author: Jennifer Niederst
ISBN: 1565925157
Publication Date: November 1998
Retail Price: $24.95
Web site: www.oreilly.com
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Authors who write for O'Reilly should be worried. With all the excellent O'Reilly books I've read and reviewed, I have yet to find one that doesn't live up to the O'Reilly standard. It's tough to live up to that kind of pressure, but once again this book, Web Design in a Nutshell, like all the other "in a Nutshell" books, is one of those tomes that you'll want to read and refer back to in the future.
Web Design in a Nutshell was not really written for readers with a specific level of expertise, but rather as a guide that most folks can learn from, regardless of their experience. The book is divided into five main sections and an appendix. The main sections cover: The Web Environment, HTML, Graphics, Multimedia and Interactivity, and Emerging Technologies. Each section covers a wide array of topics, including:
- Designing for a Variety of Browsers
- Designing for a Variety of Displays
- Web Design Principles for Print Designers
- A Beginner's Guide to the Server
- HTML Overview
- Structural HTML Tags
- Tables
- Frames
- Forms
- Server Side Includes
- GIF, JPEG and PNG Formats
- Designing Graphics with a Web Format
- Animated GIFs
- Audio & Video on the Web
- Interactivity
- Intro to JavaScript
- Cascading Style Sheets
- DHTML
- XML
- Embedded Font Technology
Author Jennifer Niederst covers each topic with just enough information to get you up to speed and save you time, without the fluff that so typically accompanies such topics in similar books. Each tag is covered in detail, including info about support for the tag by specific Web browsers, and features all the available parameters for each tag.
The best aspect of this book is the many time-saving tips and tricks that are presented. For example, Niederst points out that you can get the appearance of "drop caps" at the beginning of a paragraph by using Style Sheets and a SPAN tag, along with the float property. Or an example which shows how you can shrink your image size using a Gaussian blur in Photoshop. These types of examples abound in this book!
If you're developing a Web site, or you're a professional developer, take a few minutes to skim through Web Design in a Nutshell. I think you'll agree that it's a book that you can't live without, and well worth the investment. I'm going to have to get a bigger bookshelf if O'Reilly keeps putting out books like this...
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