Web Tricks and Techniques: Layout: Fast Solutions for Hands-On Design

by Daniel Donnelly and Elisabeth Heinicke

This is a focused reference guide that shows readers how to create the hottest, must-have effects for Web sites. It is organized into various Web page elements: layout; navigation; special effects... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564968596
• ISBN13: 9781564968593
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

learning how to look

Finally! Someone who knows what makes a website work, and is willing to tell the rest of us. This book is very aptly titled: "Layout", as opposed to "Linux". It teaches me what to look for in a web site design that is effective in both marketing and aesthetic. It gives me all the options I need to design well with plenty of compelling examples. This is not an advanced programming book. In fact, it starts with very basic things. Like using legible fonts. Like pale colored backgrounds (instead of black backgrounds with red lettering). As a professional artist, I know how I want my images to come across on my website. If my site is poor then I lose business. I don't want to spend thousands for a site that looks poor, nor to learn a new career in order to market my current career. The structuring of the lessons, the online resources listed, the tips and commentary in Layout are all excellent.

A great resource.

This book offers a host of useful design suggestions that will help to avoid many of the most common mistakes. If you are a technical person like myself and you frequently wonder why some pages are so much more appealing than others you will find the answers in this great book.

Lots of helpful layout ideas

You'll find plenty of examples of good, clean layouts with tips on creating similar pages. The online tutorials are helpful and leave more room for full-color graphics of actual websites. Instructions are clear and easy to follow. Be sure to check out all the recommended sites for tons of examples. A good book for quick reference to well-though-out designs.

Helpful layout ideas

Lots of great ideas for layouts. Online tutorials leave more room for full-color graphics. Following the referenced links provides you with a great resource of well-designed, practical layout ideas. A good book to have as a quick reference source for layout possibilities.

helpful for the self-taught designer

Much of what's in print on web design is really not helpful to the self-taught designer. This one gives examples of good, clean web designs and offers tips on the most direct approaches to achieving similar effects. An intermediate HTML and WYSIWIG user will find many stylish solutions and shortcuts. Referring the reader to the companion online tutorials permits the volume itself to remain a lean idea-book and not a cumbersome doorstop.