Learning Web Design

Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You’ll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices.

Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various techniques and short quizzes to make sure you understand key concepts.

This thoroughly revised edition is ideal for students and professionals of all backgrounds and skill levels. It is simple and clear enough for beginners, yet thorough enough to be a useful reference for experienced developers keeping their skills up to date.

Book features

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• Build HTML pages with text, links, images, tables, and forms
• Use style sheets (CSS) for colors, backgrounds, formatting text, page layout, and even simple animation effects
• Learn how JavaScript works and why the language is so important in web design
• Create and optimize web images so they’ll download as quickly as possible
• NEW! Use CSS Flexbox and Grid for sophisticated and flexible page layout
• NEW! Learn the ins and outs of Responsive Web Design to make web pages look great on all devices
• NEW! Become familiar with the command line, Git, and other tools in the modern web developer’s toolkit
• NEW! Get to know the super-powers of SVG graphics

About the Author

Jennifer Niederst Robbins was one of the first designers for the web. As the designer of O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site, she has been designing for the web since 1993. She is the author of the bestselling Web Design in a Nutshell and Learning Web Design (O'Reilly). Jennifer is a co-founder of the Artifact Conference for web designers and developers. In the past, has spoken at the top web conferences and taught web design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Johnson and Wales University. In addition to designing, Jennifer enjoys cooking, travel, indie-rock, and making stuff.