- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (Aug 4 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0201748673
- ISBN-13: 978-0201748673
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 22.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #486,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Because "There's more to Web design than Photoshop and HTML" Robin Williams Web Design Workshop covers everything for the working Web designer including "how to survive dealing with clients".
Although Dreamweaver, GoLive, Photoshop, and other applications are mentioned (Flash even gets its own chapter), the book covers the gamut of Web design and technology issues rather than focusing on an individual application.
Each chapter is divided into sections, often no more than a couple of pages long. The chapter on Backgrounds, the area of a Web page that seems to attract the worst design crimes, shows you how to avoid "the heartbreak of bad background design" in no less than eight sections.
In many books this subject would be lucky to get eight paragraphs, Robin Williams Web Design Workshop uses a clear two-column layout and plenty of real-life example screenshots to get the message across. Some pages consist only of captioned screenshots providing a great source of visual ideas.
There's a good balance between purely design-related issues and the technical stuff. Subjects like search engines, embedded fonts, DHTML and forms are given a thorough overview highlighting the main issues, and links to sources of more in-depth information are often to be found at the end of the chapter.
If see yourself more as a designer than a programmer, but want a working knowledge of current Web technologies from a book that you can read away from your computer, this is it. --Ken McMahon
Book Description
Learn Web design theory and practical know-how from the award-winning author, Robin Williams!
Discover practical and effective Web design principles and concepts— and how to apply them to virtually any Web site.
Gain insight into the design process by studying the full color examples.
Includes strategies for real world projects. With Robin Williams guiding hand, non-professionals, artists, and designers alike have learned the principles behind elegant design. Now that much of this same audience is working on the Web, Robin has focused her attention on the specific needs of this medium with Robin Williams Web Design Workshop. John Tollett and Dave Rohr pitch in with their illustration and graphics experience to create a handsome and engaging instructional book. The ideas in this book tackle all aspects of Web design theory, including all the ways that color, fonts, clip art, photographs and so on contribute to creating a visual impression. Then the book takes the user through site planning and layout, navigability, and functionality, all in Robin Williams clear and accessible style.
Robin Williams has written more than a dozen award-winning and best-selling books, including The Little iMac Book, The Non-Designers Design Book, and The Non-Designers Web Book. Through her writing, workshops, and seminars, Robin has influenced an entire generation of computer users in the areas of design, typography, desktop publishing, the Mac, and the Web.
John Tollett is an illustrator, art director, and designer, with over 30 years experience in the graphic design world. His broad range of experience gives him a unique perspective on Web design.
Dave Rohr is an experienced Web designer who currently works with the award-winning Web design firm Panoramapoint. Dave co-founded the Santa Fe Macintosh Users Group with Robin Williams and John Tollett in 1993.
Discover practical and effective Web design principles and concepts— and how to apply them to virtually any Web site.
Gain insight into the design process by studying the full color examples.
Includes strategies for real world projects. With Robin Williams guiding hand, non-professionals, artists, and designers alike have learned the principles behind elegant design. Now that much of this same audience is working on the Web, Robin has focused her attention on the specific needs of this medium with Robin Williams Web Design Workshop. John Tollett and Dave Rohr pitch in with their illustration and graphics experience to create a handsome and engaging instructional book. The ideas in this book tackle all aspects of Web design theory, including all the ways that color, fonts, clip art, photographs and so on contribute to creating a visual impression. Then the book takes the user through site planning and layout, navigability, and functionality, all in Robin Williams clear and accessible style.
Robin Williams has written more than a dozen award-winning and best-selling books, including The Little iMac Book, The Non-Designers Design Book, and The Non-Designers Web Book. Through her writing, workshops, and seminars, Robin has influenced an entire generation of computer users in the areas of design, typography, desktop publishing, the Mac, and the Web.
John Tollett is an illustrator, art director, and designer, with over 30 years experience in the graphic design world. His broad range of experience gives him a unique perspective on Web design.
Dave Rohr is an experienced Web designer who currently works with the award-winning Web design firm Panoramapoint. Dave co-founded the Santa Fe Macintosh Users Group with Robin Williams and John Tollett in 1993.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
One flaw,
By Webster999 (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Robin Williams Web Design Workshop (Paperback)
One big flaw in the book, and one that alot of web design books make, is the recommendation of Matt's Script Archives for CGI scripts. DON'T use Matt's scripts, and beware of any CGI scripts you find on the web. If you do want the functionality (or would like to replace the MSA scripts you have), look for the NMS scripts (google for "matt" and "nms"). Matt's scripts are not maintained, and many security and other problems have been fixed in the NMS scripts (e.g. use the old formmail script, and anyone can use your server to send spam).
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not her best,
By TheCafeWriter (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Robin Williams Web Design Workshop (Paperback)
The Non-Designer's Web Book is a better choice. For starters, this book is a bit Mac and PhotoShop-centric, so some of the specifics may not be helpful. (Why people still shell out hundreds for PhotoShop when Jasc's Paint Shop Pro does the same thing for 1/6 the price, I'll never understand.) The design examples are good but a bit limited in creativity, variety, and possibilities. She covers all the basics about proximity, contrast, and alignment, for example, but you can get that in her other books. The designs here are fairly static and rely mainly on tables for layout. There's a little slicing-and-dicing, but no mortized sites or style-sheet driven sites like you see in 3rd-generation web design. Instead, this is something of a repeat of 2nd-generation design that came along a bit too late to be "new." Instead, I'd recommend her "Non-Designer's Web Book" and her "Design Workshop." The latter covers all the concepts of THIS book in a single chapter! And then includes chapters on business cards, letterhead, brochures, and other projects, so you get all this and more in a similar book by the same author.
1.0 out of 5 stars
HIGHLY over rated.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Robin Williams Web Design Workshop (Paperback)
Spends more time promoteing the authors instead of teaching you how to actually design.
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