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Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics, 5th Edition

by Jennifer Robbins

• Length: 808 pages
• Edition: 5
• Language: English
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 2018-05-29
• ISBN-10: 1491960205
• ISBN-13: 9781491960202

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Description

Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You’ll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices.

Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various techniques and short quizzes to make sure you understand key concepts.

This thoroughly revised edition is ideal for students and professionals of all backgrounds and skill levels. It is simple and clear enough for beginners, yet thorough enough to be a useful reference for experienced developers keeping their skills up to date.

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

NEW! Use CSS Flexbox and Grid for sophisticated and flexible page layout

NEW! Learn the ins and outs of Responsive Web Design to make web pages look great on all devices

NEW! Become familiar with the command line, Git, and other tools in the modern web developer’s toolkit

NEW! Get to know the super-powers of SVG graphics

Table of Contents

PART I: GETTING STARTED
CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED IN WEB DESIGN
CHAPTER 2: HOW THE WEB WORKS
CHAPTER 3: SOME BIG CONCEPTS YOU NEED TO KNOW

PART II: HTML FOR STRUCTURE
CHAPTER 4: CREATING A SIMPLE PAGE
CHAPTER 5: MARKING UP TEXT
CHAPTER 6: ADDING LINKS
CHAPTER 7: ADDING IMAGES
CHAPTER 8: TABLE MARKUP
CHAPTER 9: FORMS
CHAPTER 10: EMBEDDED MEDIA

PART III: CSS FOR PRESENTATION
CHAPTER 11: INTRODUCING CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
CHAPTER 12: FORMATTING TEXT
CHAPTER 13: COLORS AND BACKGROUNDS
CHAPTER 14: THINKING INSIDE THE BOX
CHAPTER 15: FLOATING AND POSITIONING
CHAPTER 16: CSS LAYOUT WITH FLEXBOX AND GRID
CHAPTER 17: RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN
CHAPTER 18: TRANSITIONS, TRANSFORMS, AND ANIMATION
CHAPTER 19: MORE CSS TECHNIQUES
CHAPTER 20: MODERN WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

PART IV: JAVASCRIPT FOR BEHAVIOR
CHAPTER 21: INTRODUCTION TO JAVASCRIPT
CHAPTER 22: USING JAVASCRIPT

PART V: WEB IMAGES
CHAPTER 23: WEB IMAGE BASICS
CHAPTER 24: IMAGE ASSET PRODUCTION
CHAPTER 25: SVG

PART VI: APPENDICES
APPENDIX A: ANSWERS
APPENDIX B: HTML5 GLOBAL ATTRIBUTES
APPENDIX C: CSS SELECTORS, LEVELS 3 AND 4
APPENDIX D: FROM HTML+ TO HTML5

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