Learning Web Design, Fourth Edition

The best-sellling Learning Web Design has been thoroughly updated to include HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, following current and mobile-friendly best practices. The new edition helps you to:

• 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 about the new HTML5 elements, APIs, and CSS3 properties that are changing what we can do with web pages
• Make your pages display well on mobile devices by creating a responsive web design
• Learn how JavaScript works—and why the language is so important in web design
• Create and optimize web graphics so they’ll download as quickly as possible

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 multi-column pages that adapt for mobile devices.

Each chapter provides exercises to help you to learn various techniques, and short quizzes to make sure you understand key concepts. Learning Web Design, 4e is ideal for students and professionals of all backgrounds and skill levels, whether you’re a beginner or brushing up on existing skills.

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About the Author

Jennifer Robbins has two decades of web design experience, having designed the first commercial website, O’Reilly’s Global Network Navigator (GNN), in 1993. She’s the author of O’Reilly’s Web Design in a Nutshell, and has taught web design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island.