Exploring Web Design provides a valuable introduction to the design fundamentals at work in all well-designed Web sites. The result of an award-winning Web designer?s mission to teach these building blocks in clear, direct, and non-technical language, this book delivers a solid design foundation in layout, typography, color, and usability. While recognizing the importance of Macromedia ® Flash ? and JavaScript, the author stresses that success comes from understanding design principles and how they apply to the world of the Web. Not just another book full of tips and tricks for creating hip Internet graphics, Exploring Web Design teaches the design theory that is essential to knowing how and why to use those cool Web effects.

Average
I found this book a little disappointing. If you already have a basic knowledge of Colour theory and know about CMYK & RGB, raster and vector images then this book may be too basic for you. It has173 pages with about 36 in colour. I found this quite annoying particularly when the author was talking about the effect of colour in a screenshot and the page is printed in black and white (grayscale) - so you can’t see what he is talking about unless you go to the website yourself.

I learned some new things but I don’t think it is enough to rate this book any higher than a 3.

Good Book from a Great Teacher/Mentor/Friend
Hi Jeremey thank you and all affliated with the design and information provided in the book! For those who don’t know Jeremey was a teacher at my college, Virginia College in Birmingham. He really helped me convey my inner thoughts of how to actually create something. I was stuck in design limbo for a long time till his teachings changed my life forever! To all involved with the work on this title it is our first book and hopefully we will have many more from VC our students and teachers are some of the best! Congrats!

The Gap Is FINALLY Filled!!
I teach web design at a community college. Our biggest teaching issues aren’t technology skills -- most students pick those up easily, and there are literally hundreds of technical books around to help -- but design skills. It’s very hard to make a group of technology students care about color, type, and all the details that make a page communicate visually. There are other books that attempt to fill this gap (Robin Williams spring to mind) but no book has really done it WELL. This book has. I was worried asking my students to buy ’yet another’ textbook with costs skyrocketing, but this book is a worthwhile investment. If you don’t understand design basics is the place to start.

Author notes
It took me two years to write this book.
If you do not understand basic design principles this is the right book for you.

Author notes
It took me two years to write this book.

If you do not understand basic design principles this is the right book for you.