Want to know how to make your pages look beautiful, communicate your message effectively, guide visitors through your website with ease, and get everything approved by the accessibility and usability police at the same time? Head First Web Design is your ticket to mastering all of these complex topics, and understanding what's really going on in the world of web design. Whether you're building a personal blog or a corporate website, there's a lot more to web design than div's and CSS selectors, but what do you really need to know? With this book, you'll learn the secrets of designing effective, user-friendly sites, from customer requirements to hand-drawn storyboards all the way to finished HTML and CSS creations that offer an unforgettable online presence. Your time is way too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First Web Design uses a visually rich format specifically designed to take advantage of the way your brain really works.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 12 Ratings

A confusing look at web design - 2009-06-10
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This book is not for beginners or even those with a decent background in web design and HTML/CSS. The Head First series appears to be a web design version of "Idiot's Guide" or "...for Dummies," but it fails to capture the readability and easy writing style of those best-selling series. The authors state outright that Head First Web Design is not a reference book, but its cover differs little from web design reference books, which will cause a problem for unknowing buyers. The book is full of nice details and informative asides, but the layout negates the "keep it simple" mantra repeated in the text--each page is full of distracting illustrations and vintage photographs with one-liners, and the images switch from color to black-and-white with little cohesion. For a book that is supposedly not a reference book, there is little within the Head First Web Design to justify its nearly 500 pages. The authors' enthusiasm and knowledge comes across clearly on every page, but Head First Web Design reads more like a seminar on web design and less like a book.

Reviewed by Angela Tate

Good Web Design Principles - 2009-05-31
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Overall this book gave good advice. It was centered in design principles you'll have in a systems design course and adopts many of the same principles that are in design books. Easily explained, assumes you already have knowledge of xhtml, css, javascript although none are required to understand content.

Great resource for beginners, but not for a complete novice - 2009-10-18
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Pros: Easy read. Helpful methodologies. Good references.

I have to admit that I found the format of this book interesting. The writers' tried to inject a lot of character, color and some lightheartedness into something that can become very dry reading. Some aspects becoming tiring after a while, but an overall good job. There are some good strategies here. The books delivers good pointers on how to handle information architecture, lay out a web page and color theory. I also appreciated that the book was sprinkled with links to great online resources for site designers and ideas on how to moved forward once you've read the book.

Cons: Needs more meat

This book is great for folks needing to build simple web sites. That being said, I wish it could have touched a little more on the back-end, server side of developing a web site. It did touch on how to build a blog, but I would have like more discussion on database technologies and how to build an application.

Still a nice job and a learned a few things.

Simplified and Intuitive - 2009-08-26
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If you want a simple aproach to design web sites, especially if you are a developer, this book is for you.

Head First Web Design - 2009-05-26
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Product arrived overseas in under two weeks. Excellent condition. I really enjoy these books and would by other titles in this series from this seller. Sorry for taking so long to leave a review, moving house and all that jazz. Cheers :)

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