Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to (X)HTML, Style Sheets, and Web Graphics (3rd ed.). ISBN 10: 0-596-52752-7

This thoroughly revised edition teaches you how to build web sites according to modern design practices and professional standards. Learning Web Design explains:

• How to create a simple (X)HTML page, how to add links and images
• Everything you need to know about web standards — (X)HTML, DTDs, and more
• Cascading Style Sheets — formatting text, colors and backgrounds, using the box model, page layout, and more
• All about web graphics, and how to make them lean and mean through optimization
• The site development process, from start to finish
• Getting your pages on the Web — hosting, domain names, and FTP

Learning Web Design starts from the beginning — defining how the Web and web pages work — and builds from there. By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you’ll know how to get your pages up on the Web.

The book includes exercises to help you to learn various techniques, and short quizzes to make sure you’re up to speed with key concepts. If you’re interested in web design, Learning Web Design is the place to start.

• Read the complete Table of Contents
• Buy it at O’Reilly.com

The Non-Designer’s Web Book: An Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site (3rd ed.). ISBN: 0-321-30337-7

If you think web design is beyond your reach, or if you want your existing web site to look more professional, this thoroughly updated classic is the place to turn! In these pages, best-selling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett share the creative ideas, useful techniques, and basic design principles that are essential to great Web design-all in the context of the most current technology, software, and standards. Throughout, the authors’ aim is to inspire you and spark your creativity rather than sedate you with pages and pages of code. To that end, you’ll find loads of real-world examples, interesting illustrations, and the simple instructions you need to implement the techniques and concepts described in these pages.

• Read sample chapter, "What are Web pages anyway?"
• But it a Peachpit.com

Planning a Web Site

• Web Style Guide: The Site Development Process
• Web Style Guide: Initial Plannning
• Webmonkey’s Crash Course in Information Architecture: Lesson 1
• Webmonkey’s Crash Course in Information Architecture: Lesson 2
• Webmonkey’s Crash Course in Information Architecture: Lesson 3

HTML Basics

• Make an HTML Document from Scratch
• HTML Cheatsheet
• HTML Basics Videos – YouTube
  Search with keywords “HTML basics” to find numerous videos related to the basics of HTML

Usability

• The Usable Web
• Value of Usability
• User Testing Techniques
• Hidden Keys to Reader Friendliness
• Use It
• Removing Stumbling Blocks by Usability Testing
• Practical Usability Testing

Accessibility

• Accessible Online Course Design
• Creating Printer-Friendly Documents for Your Online Course
• Making Educational Software and Web Sites Accessible
• Accessibility in Distance Education
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools

Evaluating Web Sites

• WWW CyberGuide Ratings for Web Site Design
• Rubric for Classroom Web Pages
• “Good Sites: A rubric for evaluating student sites”

Misc.

• ION’s Online Education Resources: Web Design

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