Learning Web Design, 5th Ed (O'Reilly)
Thursday, 21 June 2018

This is the fifth edition of a popular book subtitled "A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics". It starts at square one, showing how the web and web pages work, and then steadily builds from there. By the end of the book, author Jennifer Niederst Robbin has shown the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices. Each chapter provides exercises to illustrate various techniques and short quizzes to make sure the reader understands key concepts.

 

Author: Jennifer Niederst Robbin
Publisher: O'Reilly
Date: May 2018
Pages: 808
ISBN: 978-1491960202
Print: 1491960205
Kindle: B07DQ5RZJV
Audience: would-be web developers
Level: Introductory
Category: Web design and development 

 

 

  • 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
  • Use CSS Flexbox and Grid for sophisticated and flexible page layout
  • Learn the ins and outs of Responsive Web Design to make web pages look great on all devices
  • Become familiar with the command line, Git, and other tools in the modern web developer’s toolkit
  • Get to know the power of SVG graphics

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