Monday, October 27, 2008

Exploring Web Design

About the Book

Exploring Web Design is a book that covers various aspects of web-design and the web-design industry. The authors appear sufficiently qualified to cover the material presented in the book. The book covers the following areas of website design:
  • Introduction to Web Design
  • Website Layouts
  • Typography
  • Color Theory
  • Designing websites for accessibility by people with disabilities
  • Developing a career as website designer
  • Multimedia and Web Design Technologies

The primary format of how the book is setup is that it presents a concept, provides an example and moves onto the next concept. The book's content is short, concise, and to the point.

My Review

Some of the strengths of this book are that it is simple/easy to remember and teaches the process of designing a website rather than focusing on how to do specific designs for specific situations. Some of the weaknesses of this book are that some of the technology referred to in the book is already outdated and there are some problems where black and white examples should have been in color.

Overall I think that this is a good book for those who are looking to get a quick understandind of the fundamental concepts and principles of web design. Personally I learned more about some of the important aspects of web design as a result of reading this book.

- Bill Ebersohl

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