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Review categories > Website Design Books > Professional Web Design
By: Audrey Miller Review for 'Professional Web Design'
Rating: 5 of out 6
Written By: Molly E. Holzschlag
Page Count: 369
Cover Type: Softcover
Published By: Prima Publishing
Date Published: 9/1996
List Price: $40.00
Author's Site: http://www.webdevelopersjourna...
Professional Web
Design is really an overview of what professional Web
design is all about. Molly E. Holzschlag takes us
through the history of Web development to our modern day
design efforts. This book can be used by all who
need to brush on Web development skills, as well as the
beginning Web developer.
Part one of the book
focuses on the history of Web development and what Web
design is all about. Though the author appeals to
all, her main focus is on the design team and not an
individual Web designer with many hats.
Part two,
with only two short chapters, focuses on the need for
standards in HTML code, to make designing easier for the
designer. It also briefly summarizes browsers and
what is needed to make them work to get one's content
across.
Part three emphasizes the creation of
Web sites. Molly E. Holzschlag provides two actual
case scenarios encountered by her design team from
DesertNet. One was an ideal client, Gadabout, and
the other, to say the least, was not.
The final
part, part four, goes into analysis of her design
paradigms:
- Content and copy writing
- HTML
- Graphic design
- Multimedia
- Programming
- System Administration and
- Marketing
The book includes appendices
(A-F) with the following resources:
- Writing Resources
- HTML Resources
- Graphic Design Resources
- Multimedia Resources
- Programming Resources and
- Systems Administration
Resources
Professional Web Design is a good
book for those seeking to understand what Web design is
all about. My only dislike was the author's
initial battle about who the book was geared towards,
the lone Web designer or the Web design team. When
she finally emphasized a design team orientation, the
book became its own, for focus and information on Web
design.
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