Foundation Web Design by friends of ED

Foundation Web Design: Essential HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Photoshop, Fireworks, and Flash

by friends of ED

$29.99

88% off

Average Rating:
Sales Rank:	1650629 (lower is better)
Price as of:	08/19/2008 2:18:39 AM MDT
Price Used:	$3.64
Shipping:	Free Shipping on most orders over $25^*
Availability:	Usually ships in 24 hours
Label:	friends of ED
Pages:	400
Binding:	Paperback
Publication Date:	2003-07-11
Published By:	friends of ED
ASIN:	1590591526
Category:	Book

Authors

Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions

Product Description

Want to create a top-level website from scratch, but dont know where to start? Well, youve got a choice: buy this book, or buy ten others… Creating a website in todays environment is no longer a question of knowing about one piece of software, or one technology. To achieve the best results, you need broad knowledge on a range of topics: HTML to create pages Cascading Style Sheets to format your text JavaScript to create interactivity Image editing software like Fireworks and Photoshop to prepare images Macromedia Flash to add multimedia content Foundation Web Design is a step-by-step guide to stunning website creation. Starting with the basics, and assuming no prior knowledge, Sham Bhangal cuts through the jargon and introduces a wide range of essential skills and technologies. These combine to help you create a fully operational and graphically stunning case study website. About the Authors: Sham Bhangals unique tutorial style has found success in friends of ED Foundation titles such as Foundation ActionScript, heralded by amazon.com as "perhaps one of the finest introductory programming books ever written". Tomasz Jankowski &emdash; who designed the case study site &emdash; has won numerous web design awards. His stunning artwork first appeared in our landmark title New Masters of Flash. Summary of Contents: Introducing Web Design HTML JavaScript Cascading Style Sheets Layout Tables Creating Web Graphics Further JavaScript Events and User Interaction Advanced Image Features Slicing Frames Introducing Flash Appendices: A: Getting Your Site Online B: Debugging C: HTML Events D: Layers Optimized for: Photoshop 7 Fireworks MX Flash MX IE 6 (PC) 5 (Mac) Netscape 7

Customer Reviews

Noooo! Please revise this book! - Reviewed on 2005-04-09

3 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.

I must concur with the prior review, the final product, the result of very bad editing, is a disappointing mess.

I am completely new to web design, and had bought Foundation Web Design because it covered not just HTML, but all the other essential elements of web design: javascript, cascading style sheets, Flash, etc.

The editing is atrocious. What the reader is subjected to are elements of code introduced too early, only to be explained later, references to examples never given, incorrect code (when checked against other books describing the same code), screenshots which do not match what the code actually produces, etc.

I looked forward to its "dumbed down" presentation, to paraphrase the other Reveiwer, but the flaws in it's final presentation just get too much in the way of learning. For whatever reason, unfamiliarity with the coding, pressure to get the book to press by a certain time, the final product is a very sad disappointment.

very disappointing for many reasons - Reviewed on 2003-07-11

7 customers found this review helpful, 4 did not.

I was expecting a book that would more or less take the reader through the process of putting together a "top-level" website. It tries, but fails miserably.

First of all the book is written not only for the absolute newbie, but for people who are AFRAID to write code. The entire book is dumbed down to the granny level. The book could have been subtitled, "Overcoming your fear of Javascript," but it would have failed at that as well!

I happen to have some knowhow, but I wanted a reinforcement of the process at the beginner level. This book was a confusing, muddled, badly written disappointment.

The concept of the book and the outline in the table of contents looked very promising, but the content itself was haphazard and inadequate.

The last straw is that not all the files are available for download so the reader can't follow the examples in the expected manner. It seems to me that unless the author is incarcerated or otherwise unable, he should provide the chapter files for download to the suckers who bought the book.

Go To Amazon Product Page

* - See Amazon Product Page for shipping and pricing details.

Book Subjects

Computing and Information Technology
Publishing on the Internet
Computers
Computer - Internet
Computer Books: General
Computer Graphics - Flash
Computer Graphics - Photoshop
Internet - Web Site Design
Computers / General
Computers / Programming / Software Development