Book details of 'Designing for the Web: Getting Started in a New Medium'

Title	Designing for the Web: Getting Started in a New Medium
Author(s)	Jennifer Niederst, Edie Freedman
ISBN	1565921658
Language	English
Publisher	O'Reilly & Associates

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Reviewer amazon.com wrote:
A handsome and practical book, chock-full of useful tricks and tips for WWW graphics design, Although the book was created for already-experienced graphics designers moving to the Web medium, there's plenty of good information for novices as well. This book is especially strong in helping you solve the mysteries of working with transparency, interlacing, imagemaps, and bit-depths to create effective and compact images that work on the web. Recommended!
Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
This book very definitely is for the graphic designer and is not for the techie. It is not intended, despite some of the implication of the title, to teach designing, but rather to give experienced designers some background on the vagaries of the Web. Chapters three, four and eleven provide the basics of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) for page creation. Chapter twelve mentions the more advanced functions such as forms, tables and frames. The introduction is very simple, and provides only the most fundamental tags. Chapter three is quite casual, and at times difficult to follow, flipping between HTML source, the browser (Netscape for the Mac) image, and other programs. Fortunately, chapter eleven makes up for any confusion with a more structured presentation of the foundational material again. Of design advice there is little, mostly in chapters two and five. Niederst does repeat the vitally important point that not all browsers are the same. There is the advice to note the standard functions and to keep download times in mind at all times, but there is still a feeling of frustration with the limitations of the Web, as if it is a failure on the part of the users that all do not have Netscape 3.0 and ISDN connections. The content in chapters six to nine, on graphics files, is really the high point of the book. This is very valuable material, with an excellent four page spread in chapter eight illustrating (literally) the effect of bit depth on file size and image quality with differing types of graphics. An effective designer must keep the limitations of the medium in mind, as well as being familiar with the technology. While Niederst's book is a basic introduction, ultimately an impressive page producer will need the kind, and level, of information provided in Musciano and Kennedy's "HTML: The Definitive Guide" (see reviews). copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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