Creative Web Design: Tips and Tricks Step by Step - Softcover

Baumgardt, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 354062662X ISBN 13: 9783540626626

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1998

Synopsis

Author and designer Michael Baumgardt covers everything from preparing images to creating animations so that readers can start developing advanced Web sites. He includes programming in HTML and JavaScript, analyzes features of proprietary browsers and provides tips and tricks to optimize sites for the relevant audience. Finally, interviews with agencies reveal how professionals created their Web sites. The accompanying CD-ROM contains demos and fully-functional versions of the software tools described, as well as examples of the sites discussed, allowing their study offline.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Creating outstanding Web sites is one of the most exciting challenges for graphic designers worldwide. Creative Web Design gives you the information you need to jump from DTP to the world of the Internet. The book explains everything you need to know to design first-class Web sites, from image processing to producing animations and programming in HTML and JavaScript. It describes the latest functions of the Netscape and Microsoft browsers, as well as tips and tricks to optimize your site for your audience. Interviews with top agencies reveal the insights and ideas that led to some of the best Web sites on the Internet. Many of the Web sites mentioned as examples in the book can be studied off-line using the accompanying CD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows. Michael Baumgardt is a designer and has worked since the beginning of the desktop publishing era with design on computer. He is the US correspondent for PAGE magazine and the author of several handbooks for designers. The following programs are shown in practical application: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Pagemill, Macromedia Shockwave, BareBone BBEdit, Fetch, GiFBuilder, Bias Peak with Waves plug-ins, and Real Audio. Visit Michael Baumgardt's Web site for the book: http://www.mitomedia.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 354062662X
• ISBN 13: 9783540626626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160