The Web Wizard's Guide to Web Design

by James G. Lengel

B> The Web Wizard's Guide to Web Site Design teaches readers how to create a site that will have an audience coming back for more. From site planning to site building to site posting, this book will... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201745623
• ISBN13: 9780201745627
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Solid Basic Instruction in Dreamweaver

I liked this book and recommend it for instruction. The author gives a quick overview of the basic strengths of Dreamweaver software in a single chapter, then reviews everything in follow-up chapters, including the WHYs of handling type, photos and graphics, working with tables, creating forms, adding movies/rollovers/sounds/animations. He provided warnings in places were amateurs are likely to get hung up, and proves book exercises and downloadable files to work with in doing assignments. Great book to use as an introduction into the strengths of Dreamweaver software for creating, editing and publishing web pages.

Misunderstood Book

I am an experienced web designer who has worked on thousands of pages, and do everything from graphic design to hand coding. I am using this book (and the HTML book in this series) as a reference to teach classes. Why? Because it takes a clear, simple, "top-down" approach that anyone can understand. The underlying concepts of web design are presented accurately in this book. I believe an experienced instructor could use this and expand upon this valuable resource. That being said, if you are looking for the specifics on HTML coding you should probably look in the HTML book in this series or elsewhere. Also, as mentioned in other reviews, the lack of any significant mention of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a really blatant oversight. CSS makes life a heck of a lot easier, especially when dealing with cross-platform compatibility in web pages. Additionally, I felt it was an oversight not to mention the concept of Include files. Including, for example, a simple navigation bar in all of your pages without having to change every page is a great time saver and can be done with Lasso, PHP, SSI, ASP, ColdFusion and other technologies.

Well done!

As a newcomer to web design, I find this book to be a wonderful tool. It provides the basic foundation on which to build your skills. The writer's down-to-earth style creates a pleasant reading experience. I would suggest this book to anyone new to the web design field or to those wishing for a sensible, to-the-point, easy-to-read guide to web design.

Great job!!

I love this book---the author has a great writing style and it's easy to follow!

An excellent concise overview

I thing that this book is very appropriate in detail for the size. it covers all of the important points of Web design from a design, not technical, prespective. Important subjects like usability,navigation, and optimization are introduced well. And those are often given short-shift from bulkier books.I suspect that those who weren't happy with it were expecting a hard core technical reference. Who has time to read all that? There are plenty of books that go into detail about Web design and development but this book's strength is its brevity.For the price, this book can't be beat.