From idea to online, your key to great-looking Web sites

Your one-stop guide to building a user-friendly site with professional flair

Whether you're building a site to keep in touch with others, sell products, or promote a cause, you want to make sure yours stands out in the crowd. This handy reference shows you how to design an accessible site, create graphics and navigation menus, build forms, insert sound and video, and keep your visitors coming back for more.

Discover how to

• Plan, maintain, and promote a Web site

• Design with users in mind

• Work with HTML and CSS

• Optimize graphic elements for the Web

• Build your site with e-commerce functionality

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 4 Ratings

Total waste of time - 2008-08-04
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A total waste of time and money. This book attempts to be a jack of all trades and cover every aspect of web design and development. Unfortunately, in so doing, it provides so little actual useful information on each topic that its virtually worthless. For instance, the section on CCS was less than 20 pages. Now I certainly didn't expect a complete, in depth, study of the subject in a "For Dummies" book. Especially since this type of book is supposed to be geared more to the casual user and not web professionals. But the book would be a lot more useful if it covered the basic elements of web design in more depth.

The other thing that made this book worthless, to me in particular, is that the authors assume that everyone who has a desire to build a web page possesses some rather pricey software. Much of the book is dedicated to describing how to build web sites using Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Since I have and use neither, these sections were absolutely worthless. I find this startling since, once again, "For Dummies" books are not supposed to be geared toward the professional. So why would they assume that someone reading the book would possess high end professional development tools? I was also perturbed that these facts aren't mentioned anywhere in the or description of the book.

If you are looking for a good, basic guide on how to design and build web sites, this is NOT it.

Not Bad - 2008-02-08
Reviewer Rating:
I got this book to help me with web design. However I found myself getting lost on some things. I wish they had better examples and actual try this yourself projects to go along with the chapters. I would recommend a simpler book for learning basic web design. This book is a good reference to have on your book shelf if you ever get more involved in web design. Over all Not Bad.

Not really a "book for dummies" - 2009-07-16
Reviewer Rating:
I would consider myself mediocre in understanding some of the Adobe Creative Suite's software but I chose this book above the more obvious books on building websites using Adobe CS4 because I thought that it would be more inspiring. The only thing this book has inspired me to do was return it and use more web-based resources. This book seems to primarily work on the premise that everyone who reads it has some sort of business on building websites already running. I'd almost be tempted to say that those writing the book are more bragging on their success as web designers or the success of friends while adding a minute amount of research information that they've picked up along the way. It seems unlikely that the book was written for those of us who have an average amount of understanding of web-building but are relatively new to web-page design. This book seems as if it was designed to scare away prospective readers from the career of web-page design.

everything I would hope to need to know about web sites - 2009-08-24
Reviewer Rating:
Comprehensive material about understanding, planning, and building a web site. Easily understood and prompts one to consider many issues that just does not occur to a neophyte. Well worth the money

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