Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics

Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics Review

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Do you want to build web pages, but have no previous experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You’ll begin at square one, learning how the Web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to create a simple site with multi-column pages that adapt for mobile devices.

Learn how to use the latest techniques, best practices, and current web standards—including HTML5 and CSS3. Each chapter provides exercises to help you to learn various techniques, and short quizzes to make sure you understand key concepts.

This thoroughly revised edition is ideal for students and professionals of all backgrounds and skill levels, whether you’re a beginner or brushing up on existing skills.

• Build HTML pages with text, links, images, tables, and forms
• Use style sheets (CSS) for colors, backgrounds, formatting text, page layout, and even simple animation effects
• Learn about the new HTML5 elements, APIs, and CSS3 properties that are changing what you can do with web pages
• Make your pages display well on mobile devices by creating a responsive web design
• Learn how JavaScript works—and why the language is so important in web design
• Create and optimize web graphics so they’ll download as quickly as possible

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Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics

Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics Review

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Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. Learning Web Design starts from the beginning -- defining how the Web and web pages work -- and builds from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you'll know how to get your pages up on the Web.

This thoroughly revised edition teaches you how to build web sites according to modern design practices and professional standards. Learning Web Design explains:

• How to create a simple (X)HTML page, how to add links and images
• Everything you need to know about web standards -- (X)HTML, DTDs, and more
• Cascading Style Sheets -- formatting text, colors and backgrounds, using the box model, page layout, and more
• All about web graphics, and how to make them lean and mean through optimization
• The site development process, from start to finish
• Getting your pages on the Web -- hosting, domain names, and FTP

The book includes exercises to help you to learn various techniques, and short quizzes to make sure you're up to speed with key concepts. If you're interested in web design, Learning Web Design is the place to start.

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Picture Yourself Learning Corel PaintShop Pro X4

Picture Yourself Learning Corel PaintShop Pro X4 Review

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Harness the power of PaintShop Photo Pro X4 and discover all the fun and practical techniques that can be used to perfect photographs and create dynamic graphic elements. PICTURE YOURSELF LEARNING COREL PAINTSHOP PHOTO PRO X4 introduces the tools needed to correct and enhance photographs, beginning with the basics of working with toolbars, palettes, and rulers, and setting up your PaintShop Photo Pro X4 preferences. Once acquainted with the basic tools, readers will learn how to use layers to make brightness, hue, and color contrast adjustments; how resolution applies to their monitor, images, and prints; and how to use the various file and output functions. In addition to numerous retouching and repairing techniques, they'll discover how to use special effects to turn their photographs into works of art and create digital scrapbook pages and 3D images. In addition to the step-by-step instructions, tips, and notes, readers will find appendixes featuring PaintShop Photo Pro keyboard shortcuts and useful additional resources. This new edition is completely updated to cover all the new features of PaintShop Photo Pro X4.

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