Synopses & Reviews
Writing and designing for the Web are essential to anyone looking to advance his or her personal, academic, or professional Internet presence.
How to Design and Write Web Pages Today offers an approach for building sites that reach your intended audience, using methods that enable a site to be updated and improved over time.
An introduction to standards-based Web design, this book treats creating a website from the point of view of the writer, focusing on writing concerns and how they fit with the technological challenges of the Web. Readers will learn about the reasons for writing on the Web; the challenges of writing there; and the solid, but flexible construction of individual pages. The focus is on building websites that can grow, including sites built around the popular, open-source WordPress blogging system. Rich with examples, the book demonstrates that Web writing and design can be fast and fun—and accomplished without expensive software or sophisticated programming skills.
Review
"This book is a one-stop resource for individuals who need practical, low-cost solutions and useful tips on how to make Web design affordable, effective, and relatively easy. . . . Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, two-year technical program students, professionals/practitioners, and general audiences." - Choice
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"This book provides an informative and practical overview of design, technical, and content considerations for today's web designers. . . . . It's a useful purchase for media specialists who create web pages or as a resource for teachers who teach web design classes." - Library Media Connection
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This standards-based approach shows readers how to create accessible, usable, and sustainable websites.
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• Screenshots of different Web design approaches, practices, and user experiences—all based on work by the author
• A brief glossary of the most common terms
• A select, annotated bibliography for going even further in your Web writing, and staying current as Web writing and design progress over time.
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Most businesses, even sole proprietorships, are finding websites a necessity today. The good news is that Web writing and design can be done with free, open-source software; no costly investment is required, no expensive designer need be employed. How's it done? With one invaluable book.
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• Approaches Web design from the ground up: if you can type and click a mouse, you can build a Web page
• Features software-neutral methods of Web design so that all of the methods in the book can be completed using free and open-source software
• Offers guidance according to World Wide Consortium (W3C) standards for Web languages, guaranteeing that pages built according to the advice in this book will work today—and continue to work tomorrow
• Goes beyond technology and talks about the communication principles behind different design choices
• Introduces readers to the terminology surrounding Web design, helping them collaborate with other writers and designers