... you. I’ve given you a head-start on the XHTML files as
well. Everything is available at www.learningwebdesign.com/
materials. Put a copy of the tuscany folder on your hard drive,
making sure to ... visually rich
a web page can be with no
img
elements at all, see the CSS Zen
Garden site at www.csszengarden.
com.
Imagemaps
Chapter 7, Adding Images
123
Imagemaps
In your web travels,...
... Publishers, 2004)
Graphic Design Solutions, Third Edition by Robin Landa (Thomson Delmar
Learning, 2005).
Information design
One easily overlooked aspect of web design is information design, the orga-
nization ... graphics are a big part of web design, even hobbyist web designers
will need to know how to use some image-editing software, at minimum.
If you don’t have visual...
... the
following questions:
What are your web design goals?
To become a professional web
designer? To make personal web
sites only?
Which aspects of web design
interest you the most?
What current ... images, movies, audio files, and all the other web resources that
commonly make up web sites or are shared over the Web.
A Brief History
of the Web
The Web was born in...
... markup.
Work Along with
Jen’s Kitchen
All the files for the Jen’s Kitchen web
site are available online at www.
learningwebdesign.com/materials.
Download the entire directory,
making sure not ... server.
Linking to Pages on the Web
Chapter 6, Adding Links
97
Linking to Pages on the Web
Many times, you’ll want to create a link to a page that you’ve found on the
Web. This is known...
... the page instruc-
tions.html.
In the file intro.html, create a link to the web site for this book (www.
learningwebdesign.com).
Create a link to instructions.html from the page greetings.html. ... CHAPTER
Adding images
to a web page
Using the src, alt, width,
and height attributes
Creating an imagemap
A web page with all text and no pictures isn’t much fun. The Web s explosion...
... also avail-
able for download at www.learningweb-
design. com/materials/.
N ote
These document templates are also avail-
able for download at www.learningweb-
design. com/materials/.
Part II: HTML ... W3C validation service. The
documents in this exercise are provided for you online at www.learningwebdesign.
com/materials.
Start by validating the document blackgoose.html (it should look f...
... for CSS-based design. These are only a few, but they provide a
good entry point into the online standards community.
Stopdesign (www.stopdesign.com)
Douglas Bowman, CSS and graphic design guru, ... Cascading Style Sheets Orientation
201
World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3.org/Style/CSS)
The World Wide Web Consortium oversees the development of web tech-
nologies, including CSS.
A Li...
... copyright also prevents designers from just
making cool fonts available for download.
For these reasons, web designers tend to specify fonts from the Microsoft
Core Web Fonts collection. These ... Impact, Webdings
So, as you see, specifying fonts for the Web is more like merely suggesting
them. You don’t have absolute control over which font your users will see. It’s
one of those w...
... common
practice to create an embedded style
sheet while designing a site, then to
move the rules to an external style
sheet once the design is finished.
We’ll do just that for the cabbages ... Media)
Colors and fancy backgrounds are nice for web pages, but they are often a
nuisance when the page is printed. There has been a common convention on
the Web to provide a “printer friend...
... Publishers, 2004)
Graphic Design Solutions, Third Edition by Robin Landa (Thomson Delmar
Learning, 2005).
Information design
One easily overlooked aspect of web design is information design, the orga-
nization ... overkill for most web site needs.
Learn Java only if you want to become a Java programmer. You can live your
life as a web designer without knowing a lick of Java...