Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics, Edition 5

Jennifer Robbins

May 2018 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

About this ebook

Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. 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 multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices.

Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various techniques and short quizzes to make sure you understand key concepts.

This thoroughly revised edition is ideal for students and professionals of all backgrounds and skill levels. It is simple and clear enough for beginners, yet thorough enough to be a useful reference for experienced developers keeping their skills up to date.

• 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 how JavaScript works and why the language is so important in web design
• Create and optimize web images so they’ll download as quickly as possible
• NEW! Use CSS Flexbox and Grid for sophisticated and flexible page layout
• NEW! Learn the ins and outs of Responsive Web Design to make web pages look great on all devices
• NEW! Become familiar with the command line, Git, and other tools in the modern web developer’s toolkit
• NEW! Get to know the super-powers of SVG graphics

Ratings and reviews

The only book you need to have solid knowledge of web design. Before I had bought this book I made a profound research of books that would learn me as much as possible skills of web design and I considered this as not only best but maybe even an only candidate. The reasons are following: 1) Book teaches about all aspects of web design - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Graphics (most other books concentrate only on one or two parts and don't go too much in depth as this book). 2) New knowledges are put in context of other knowledges so that reader can better understand. 3) Book has a lot of examples which enhance your learning and understanding. I definitely recommend this book.

This app has multiple problems 😠😡💥🔥🔥 I am very angry I will never ever try this app in my life oof ! very bad app

So far the teaching are Weber then I could of hoped for

About the author

Jennifer Niederst Robbins was one of the first designers for the Web. As the designer of O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site, she has been designing for the Web since 1993. She is the author of the bestselling "Web Design in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly), and has taught web design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and Johnson and Wales University in Providence. She has spoken at major design and Internet events including SXSW Interactive, Seybold Seminars, the GRAFILL conference (Geilo, Norway), and one of the first W3C International Expos.