Product Description

Want to launch a Web site but don’t know where to begin? Information on Web design, page building software, using HTML, site planning, and everything else you need to know can be found easily in Building Web Sites All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition. So you can easily find what you’re looking for, this plain-English guide is divided into nine minibooks:

• Preparations
• Site Design
• Site Construction
• Web Graphics
• Multimedia
• Audience Interaction
• E-Commerce
• Site Management
• Case Studies

From deciding what your site should do to working with HTML, using Dreamweaver, incorporating Flash creations, and keeping your site on the cutting edge, this book is your one-stop course in building Web sites. Learn to:

• Plan your site, decide whether you need a Web team, and create relevant content
• Develop your site design, work with wire frames, and organize behind-the-scenes files that make your site work
• Select the right hardware and software and create pages with Dreamweaver
• Create cool site graphics with Photoshop and Fireworks
• Add interest with Flash animations, slideshows, video, and sound
• Make your site interactive with Javascript, PHP, ASP, and MySQL
• Build an e-commerce site that’s user-friendly, legally sound, and secure
• Keep your content and design fresh and up to date

Ready to begin? Grab Building Web Sites All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition and let’s get started!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72900 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 792 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470385418
• Condition: USED - GOOD
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From the Back Cover

Plan, build, and maintain a Web site that does exactly what you need!

Want to launch a Web site but don't know where to begin? This book is your answer! There's a minibook covering each step of the process, from deciding what your site should do to working with HTML, using Dreamweaver, incorporating Flash creations, and keeping your site on the cutting edge. There are even case studies to give you great ideas!

• Start off right — plan your site, decide whether you need a Web team, and create relevant content

• Design basics — develop your site design, work with wire frames, and organize behind-the-scenes files that make your site work

• Choose your tools — select the right hardware and software and learn to create pages with Dreamweaver®

• Get graphic — discover how to create cool graphics for your site with Photoshop® and Fireworks®

• Liven up your site — create interest with Flash® animations, slideshows, video, and sound

• Audience participation — make your site interactive with JavaScript®, PHP, ASP, and MySQL®

• Make your site pay — build an e-commerce site that's user friendly, legally sound, and secure

• Ongoing success — keep your site fresh and up to date

About the Author

Doug Sahlin is a media expert who has written on topics ranging from Web building to digital photography to YouTube. Claudia Snell is a professional digital media producer who has worked on Web sites large and small. They are coauthors of the previous edition of this bestseller.

Customer Reviews

Total waste of time
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
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.

Unprofessional
I just finished reading this book from cover to cover and, sadly, I have to agree with the negative tone of most comments here (up to the time of writing, that is).

- As heard though the grapevine, I concur that the book is published with too many "foolish assumptions" (as the authors themselves call them) in mind. Without any apparent reason, they assume the reader is going to do web designing for a living, repeatedly gearing every subject towards client-designer relations, client satisfaction and the such. There are whole chapters that would make little to no sense without this bias.

- Here comes a major problem for me. The authors' professional work as designers, as well as programmers is, well, not impressive. I guess I can't provide their URLs here, but just try Googling for their names and check them out. Oh, and try "Antonio's Winter Haven". That's good as well.

- They're not ashamed of it, either. Almost every example of web-designing they provide in the book refers to their own personnal or professional sites. In a book 762 pages long, that's a lot of self-promotion.

- In the same vein, well, this may be just me, but I'm also bothered by the authors' constant reference to how "Doug" or "Claudia" (the authors' first names) did this or that. Focus on the reader, will ya?

- The authors are an ex-web designer and a professional photographer, part-time web designer. They repeatedly claim throughout the book NOT to be programmers, which supposedly frees them from the hassle of providing any expertise on the subject. I don't claim, mind you, that they should go into fine detail concerning programming languages. What's more, it is certainly fine that they provide hints as to how to skip the programming part and use instead all the resources that the web provides. What bothers me is the uncertainty they leave you with. What with all the trickery they insist on using to escape the tough programming bits, and after seeing what they have to offer for themselves in the personnal pages they so wildly promote, I wonder if there are many things left unexplained, many resources they don't know about or are unable to handle?

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In general, I can't say I'm unhappy about having bought and read this book. I DID learn many things I needed to know about web designing, web maintenance and so on.

I did not have a problem with tools such as Photoshop and Dreamweaver being used as teaching material for the book. After all, they are the sector standards, so if a piece of software is to be used as example, let it be them. The authors do, in general, offer choices as to what software to use for each particular task (although there does seem to be an obvious bias towards Adobe products).

This just could AND SHOULD have been a better book in so many ways. I very much enjoy 'Dummies' books spirit and approach, but if this is where they're going, I'm opting out. Readers of a book do not need to excel in the field concerned. Authors do.