Web Design for Beginners

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• Publisher: Imagine Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 180
• Edition: 7th
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Эта книга, выходящая уже в седьмом издании, предназначена для начинающих веб-дизайнеров. Изложив все основы, она научит вас, как применять HTML и CSS для разработки современных веб-сайтов. Даны базовые функции WordPress, основы компьютерной графики, описана работа с программой Photoshop для веб-дизайна. Рассказано об основах SEO продвижения ваших сайтов.
While some may be deterred by the seeming complexity of the web design process, first timers will find this newly revised edition of Web Design for Beginners to be an essential handbook. Spelling out all the basics, it will teach you how to use HTML and CSS to create and style your website, before honing the user experience with more advanced techniques. You will also discover how to use Photoshop to produce graphics, SEO to get your website recognised by the likes of Google, and social media buttons to boost your site’s interactivity.

✦ Table of Contents

Create and style the perfect website

Essential guide to web design
- Discover why now is the time to start building your own website

An introduction to HTML
- HTML is the basic building block of the web, is easy to learn and offers limitless possibilities

New ways to work with Photoshop
- Should you design in Photoshop or the browser? Both mediums have their merits

The science of SEO
- Find out just what it takes to get a site ranked highly on search engines

Also inside...
- Create a basic layout
- Code a link
- Create lists in your website
- Learn to use div tags
- Create a three-column layout
- An introduction to CSS
- Centre your page
- Define text and heading styles
- Style your lists to stand out
- Format images using CSS
- Style a two-column layout
- Create a header
- Create a sidebar
- Add content to your website
- Add content to your footer
- 5 WordPress starter themes

- View and organise WordPress dashboard modules
- Create a WordPress blog
- Edit your WordPress blog posts
- Post images into your blog
- Embed external media in your WordPress posts
- Create, apply and manage tags
- Get more people to visit your website
- Use Google Analytics to understand your audience
- Create a Google sitemap for easier searching
- Create great backgrounds
- Design header and footer graphics in Photoshop
- The perception of colour
- Make an expanding navigation menu
- Create animated background text
- Make image hover effects
- Create shuffling text effects with jQuery
- Build a responsive fixed page border
- Add a shopping cart
- Create email newsletters and let people subscribe
- Add social media buttons
- Add Twitter Cards to your site
- Web design glossary