Web Design Studio Secrets - Softcover

McClelland, Deke; Eismann, Katrin; Stone, Terri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764534556 ISBN 13: 9780764534553

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Synopsis

Do you keep an archive of killer Web sites? You′re not alone. Fifteen leading Web designers reveal the secrets behind their favorite sites in the updated edition of Web Design Studio Secrets. Featuring interviews with the experts, undocumented tips and techniques, and full–color illustrations in an oversized format, this edition also presents case studies packed with advice.

Discover what′s in a winning site –– Dynamic HTML, Flash animation, and JavaScript rollovers are among the contenders. The CD–ROM contains demo software from key industry players, artwork from the book, and QuickTime interviews with featured artists. With Web Design Studio Secrets, 2nd Ed., you′ll find out what the competition′s been up to and how to use it to your advantage.

About this title

Review

The Studio Secrets series is based on the premise that the best way to learn something is from people who do it for a living. This is a big departure from the norm where you get to learn from someone who writes books for a living, which is fine if the book is called "how to write books for a living".

So Web Design Studio Secrets draws on the experience of 14 web designers, each of whom gets a chapter devoted to their particular speciality.

Tracy Keaton Drew's first chapter "Designing for the Web" is a good hands-on introduction which covers everything from client relationships through design issues such as speed, navigation, screen size, colour palettes, planning and working in Photoshop and concludes with some invaluable information about how to price your work.

All of the contributors use real projects that they have developed to illustrate their subject. In the chapter on Navigation we discover how Chris Golmer developed www.digitalthink.com for the San-Francisco-based online training company. Likewise Jeff Carlson shows how to use tables to good effect at www.meany.org and Neil Robertson of Phinney/Bischoff Design House demonstrates advanced JavaScript Rollovers as used on the company website at www.pbdh.com

All aspects of web design work, broad and specific, technical and creative are covered by specialist professionals in this fashion. This is not for beginners, but if you have covered the basics, either on the job or as part of a course and want to advance your web design skills Studio Secrets will help you get there. --Ken McMahon

From the Back Cover

WEB DESIGN: studio secrets
15 leading Web designers reveal the secrets behind great sites

NOW UPDATED AND EXPANDED, this richly illustrated guide profiles 15 top Web designers and reveals the secrets behind their most notable sites, which range from the Hard Rock Café to the Rosie O′Donnell Show. In inspiring case studies packed with practical advice, computer graphics guru Deke McClelland and his coauthors disclose the technologies, techniques, and tricks that have made these designers so successful –– including new coverage of database–driven e–commerce sites, Dynamic HTML as a design tool, and Flash animation –– and show you in detail how to create your own state–of–the–art sites.

Bonus CD–ROM
∗ Artwork from the book
∗ QuickTime interviews with featured artists
∗ Free and demo software from Apple, Extensis, Macromedia, and BoxTop Software
∗ Live links to useful Web sites

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0764534556
• ISBN 13: 9780764534553
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416