From idea to online, your key to great-looking Web sites

Your one-stop guide to building a user-friendly site with professional flair

Whether you’re building a site to keep in touch with others, sell products, or promote a cause, you want to make sure yours stands out in the crowd. This handy reference shows you how to design an accessible site, create graphics and navigation menus, build forms, insert sound and video, and keep your visitors coming back for more.

Discover how to

• Plan, maintain, and promote a Web site
• Design with users in mind
• Work with HTML and CSS
• Optimize graphic elements for the Web
• Build your site with e-commerce functionality

Doug Sahlin is an author, photographer, and Web designer living in central Florida. His clients include attorneys, authors, artists, doctors, and musicians. He has written and coauthored over 16 books on office applications, Web design applications, and digital photography. His books have been translated into five foreign languages. When he’s not busy writing, photographing clients, or designing Web sites, he enjoys playing the guitar and dabbling in watercolor painting. Claudia Snell is a new media designer based in Worcester, MA. She currently works as an online producer at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she works with Web and multimedia design and video for Web. Previously, she has worked in an agency, as a freelance new media designer, and as a contract Web/multimedia designer in large corporate environments. She has been a guest speaker at the Boston Macromedia User Group, Society of Professional Communicators, Worcester Computer Society, and on the WPI Venture Forum radio show. She founded and managed the Worcester Macromedia User Group and was a frequent presenter. She has written for Macromedia The Edge and for FlashGoddess.com.

From idea to online, your key to great?looking Web sites

Your one?stop guide to building a user?friendly site with professional flair

Whether you?re building a site to keep in touch with others, sell products, or promote a cause, you want to make sure yours stands out in the crowd. This handy reference shows you how to design an accessible site, create graphics and navigation menus, build forms, insert sound and video, and keep your visitors coming back for more.

Discover how to

• Plan, maintain, and promote a Web site
• Design with users in mind
• Work with HTML and CSS
• Optimize graphic elements for the Web
• Build your site with e?commerce functionality

From idea to online, this book is your key to great-looking Web sites. It is your one-stop guide to building a user-friendly site with professional flair - whether you’re building a site to keep in touch with others, sell products, or promote a cause, you want to make sure yours stands out in the crowd. This handy reference shows you how to design an accessible site, create graphics and navigation menus, build forms, insert sound and video, and keep your visitors coming back for more. It helps discover how to: plan, maintain, and promote a Web site; design with users in mind; work with HTML and CSS; optimize graphic elements for the Web; and, build your site with e-commerce functionality.

Doug Sahlin is an author, photographer, and Web designer living in central Florida. His clients include attorneys, authors, artists, doctors, and musicians. He has written and coauthored over 16 books on office applications, Web design applications, and digital photography. His books have been translated into five foreign languages. When he?s not busy writing, photographing clients, or designing Web sites, he enjoys playing the guitar and dabbling in watercolor painting.

Claudia Snell is a new media designer based in Worcester, MA. She currently works as an online producer at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she works with Web and multimedia design and video for Web. Previously, she has worked in an agency, as a freelance new media designer, and as a contract Web/multimedia designer in large corporate environments. She has been a guest speaker at the Boston Macromedia User Group, Society of Professional Communicators, Worcester Computer Society, and on the WPI Venture Forum radio show. She founded and managed the Worcester Macromedia User Group and was a frequent presenter. She has written for Macromedia The Edge and for FlashGoddess.com.

From idea to online, your key to great-looking Web sites

Your one-stop guide to building a user-friendly site with professional flair

Whether you’re building a site to keep in touch with others, sell products, or promote a cause, you want to make sure yours stands out in the crowd. This handy reference shows you how to design an accessible site, create graphics and navigation menus, build forms, insert sound and video, and keep your visitors coming back for more.

Discover how to

• Plan, maintain, and promote a Web site
• Design with users in mind
• Work with HTML and CSS
• Optimize graphic elements for the Web
• Build your site with e-commerce functionality

From idea to online, your key to great-looking Web sites

Your one-stop guide to building a user-friendly site with professional flair

Whether you’re building a site to keep in touch with others, sell products, or promote a cause, you want to make sure yours stands out in the crowd. This handy reference shows you how to design an accessible site, create graphics and navigation menus, build forms, insert sound and video, and keep your visitors coming back for more.

Discover how to

• Plan, maintain, and promote a Web site
• Design with users in mind
• Work with HTML and CSS
• Optimize graphic elements for the Web
• Build your site with e-commerce functionality

From idea to online, your key to great-looking Web sites

Your one-stop guide to building a user-friendly site with professional flair

Whether you’re building a site to keep in touch with others, sell products, or promote a cause, you want to make sure yours stands out in the crowd. This handy reference shows you how to design an accessible site, create graphics and navigation menus, build forms, insert sound and video, and keep your visitors coming back for more.

Discover how to
* Plan, maintain, and promote a Web site
* Design with users in mind
* Work with HTML and CSS
* Optimize graphic elements for the Web
* Build your site with e-commerce functionality

* Nine minibooks comprising over 750 pages offer designers a complete resource for each phase of Web site creation
* Minibooks cover starting a project; designing the site; creating pages; creating and adding graphics; adding sound, video, and animation; adding e-commerce functionality; Webmastering; and bells and whistles
* The book focuses on the steps necessary in any Web site project rather than on specific tools and technologies
* Topics covered include planning for an audience, securing a URL, building a site map, choosing formats, creating templates, selecting the right page-creation software, testing for usability, creating buttons and banners, working with photos and color, using Flash, updating and maintaining a site, improving search engine optimization, and working with blogs, RSS, message boards, and ListServs

• Nine minibooks comprising over 750 pages offer designers a complete resource for each phase of Web site creation
• Minibooks cover starting a project; designing the site; creating pages; creating and adding graphics; adding sound, video, and animation; adding e-commerce functionality; Webmastering; and bells and whistles
• The book focuses on the steps necessary in any Web site project rather than on specific tools and technologies
• Topics covered include planning for an audience, securing a URL, building a site map, choosing formats, creating templates, selecting the right page-creation software, testing for usability, creating buttons and banners, working with photos and color, using Flash, updating and maintaining a site, improving search engine optimization, and working with blogs, RSS, message boards, and ListServs

Total waste of time
A total waste of time and money. This book attempts to be a jack of all trades and cover every aspect of web design and development. Unfortunately, in so doing, it provides so little actual useful information on each topic that its virtually worthless. For instance, the section on CCS was less than 20 pages. Now I certainly didn’t expect a complete, in depth, study of the subject in a "For Dummies" book. Especially since this type of book is supposed to be geared more to the casual user and not web professionals. But the book would be a lot more useful if it covered the basic elements of web design in more depth.

The other thing that made this book worthless, to me in particular, is that the authors assume that everyone who has a desire to build a web page possesses some rather pricey software. Much of the book is dedicated to describing how to build web sites using Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Since I have and use neither, these sections were absolutely worthless. I find this startling since, once again, "For Dummies" books are not supposed to be geared toward the professional. So why would they assume that someone reading the book would possess high end professional development tools? I was also perturbed that these facts aren’t mentioned anywhere in the or description of the book.

If you are looking for a good, basic guide on how to design and build web sites, this is NOT it.

Not Bad
I got this book to help me with web design. However I found myself getting lost on some things. I wish they had better examples and actual try this yourself projects to go along with the chapters. I would recommend a simpler book for learning basic web design. This book is a good reference to have on your book shelf if you ever get more involved in web design. Over all Not Bad.

Building WEbsite for Dummies
Arrived in excellent condition and in a timely manner. Would do business again with them.