Web Design For Dummies, 2nd Edition

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Customer Reviews:

Excellent Primer [Posted on 2006-08-08]
This book is a great starter if you want to learn how to design web pages. While it's not a step-by-step page building guide, it's an excellent source of ideas, theories and practical "how-tos" that will definitely get you going in the right direction. If you're interested in building your own site, you could also be interested in hosting your site after it's built. Check out the "Complete Guide to Web Hosting" on amazon. It's a complete kit with all software and instructions that will let you host your site on your own PC for free. I highly recommend both of these titles together.

exactly what I needed [Posted on 2006-08-21]
this book was exactly what I needed to begin web design!

AIN'T FOR NEWBIES!! [Posted on 2006-10-03]
I've always resected the "Dummies" for their simplicity, however, this book is strictly for "near" or wannbe professionals! I do not reccommend this book for the people who want to build their own websites.

Good Colorful Pages [Posted on 2008-04-09]
This book was a good beginning to learning how to plan and implement a Web site. This book is absolutely not for individuals who are looking to get some design or development skills because it solely acts as a tool to help with Web site project management and implementation.

Because every site should undergo these steps, this is a great book for those who are just beginning to get into Web design and creation. For those pros who want to look back at maybe something that was missed, this book will not help out too much, but could give a refresher on what is a good practice.

I will say though, this book does gloss over many topics, so in order to get the best out of it, when it references a computer program or task that you might not understand, I would do a little more research before going farther into the book.

An example is that it references Microsoft Project several times. If you are new to project management and just want a site with some pictures on it, this is where it begins to get a little technical, but not too much that you aren't able to grasp the basic concepts of site design and implementation.

I like the fact that this book drills best practices and proves why they are called best practices for Web design. I would recommend it with very little reservation, but that's just me...

Great, Until I Got Lost.... [Posted on 2008-07-17]
Let's face it, if you've chosen this book, you admit to having little to no knowledge about web design. In other words, you admit you are "dumb" when it comes to the topic, and hope that the author understands you need to start from point zero and go to one-million by the end of the book. This author did a pretty good job in the first half of the book. I actually started a little website on my computer and was learning the "html" language feeling good about my brain accepting the new in-load of material. Then suddenly, half-way through the book the "basics" seemed to turn into the "real" material as if the reader should know by now what "1 + 1" was and that now it was time to move to quadratic equations. I tried to read over and over what she was attempting to convey, and do what I was supposed to on my little website. Something about the type of software use and the multi-dimensions in cyberspace that I was to grasp didn't grasp me at all (or I didn't grasp it but it slipped out of my hands). If you don't get the concept on page 1, you should not proceed to page 2. So when I encountered this "block" I never got passed it. The book is still waiting for me to figure out the second half.....like I'll need a face-to-face class to get to that point, and the reason why I bought the book was to avoid an expensive class. I would re-name this book, "....for Intermediates" instead of "Dummies".

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