Fresh Styles for Web Designers

Fresh Styles for Web Designers
Author: Curt Cloninger
Publisher: New Riders Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780735710740

In a light and friendly voice, the author introduces the reader to new ways of styling websites. With specific examples for each of ten categories, he provides a wealth of techniques for the designer who wishes to apply these approaches in their own work. The styles are broken down into ten categories, which are: Gothic Organic School Wireframe Icon School Lo-fi Grunge School Paper Bag School Mondrian Poster School Pixelated Punk Rock School 1950's Hello Kitty School HTMinimaLism School DraftingTable/Instruction Manual School Super Tiny SimCity School Further explorations in the book help designers determine which style choices would be most appropriate when changing the look of their own sites.

Fresher Styles for Web Designers

Fresher Styles for Web Designers
Author: Curt Cloninger
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0132104431

Fresher Styles for Web Designers surveys eight innovative, contemporary visual design styles that break the mold and offer creative solutions to a variety of interactive design challenges. Readers will learn practical ways to incorporate these design approaches into their commercial work, using specific online examples as illustration. In 2001, Cloninger wrote Fresh Styles for Web Designers, arguing that beauty actually enhances usability. Since then, styles and technologies have evolved, but clients still expect sites that both function well and visually entice. This book will inspire web designers and developers to deliver sites that do both. There are plenty of web design books that teach code. There are several books about contemporary print design that discuss visual aesthetics. This book stands out because it synthesizes experimental web design innovations with commercial marketing goals (without ignoring usability concerns).

Fresh Styles for Web Designers

Fresh Styles for Web Designers
Author: Curt Cloninger
Publisher: Turtleback
Total Pages:
Release: 2001-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780613917322

In a light and friendly voice, the author introduces the reader to new ways of styling websites. With specific examples for each of ten categories, he provides a wealth of techniques for the designer who wishes to apply these approaches in their own work. The styles are broken down into ten categories, which are: Gothic Organic SchoolWireframe Icon SchoolLo-fi Grunge SchoolPaper Bag SchoolMondrian Poster SchoolPixelated Punk Rock School1950's Hello Kitty SchoolHTMinimaLism SchoolDraftingTable/Instruction Manual School Super Tiny SimCity School Further explorations in the book help designers determine which style choices would be most appropriate when changing the look of their own sites.

Web Design in a Nutshell

Web Design in a Nutshell
Author: Jennifer Niederst Robbins
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 829
Release: 2006-02-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0596009879

"Completely revised for standards compliance, including CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0"--Cover.

The Web Designer's Idea Book Volume 2

The Web Designer's Idea Book Volume 2
Author: Patrick McNeil
Publisher: HOW Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010-09-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 160061972X

Web Design Inspiration at a Glance Volume 2 of The Web Designer’s Idea Book includes more than 650 new websites arranged thematically, so you can easily find inspiration for your work. Author Patrick McNeil, creator of the popular web design blog designmeltdown.com and author of the original bestselling Web Designer’s Idea Book, has cataloged thousands of sites, and showcases the latest and best examples in this book. The web is the most rapidly changing design medium, and this book offers an organized overview of what’s happening right now. Sites are categorized by type, design element, styles and themes, structural styles, and structural elements. This new volume also includes a helpful chapter explaining basic design principles and how they can be applied online. Whether you’re brainstorming with a coworker or explaining your ideas to a client, this book provides a powerful communication tool you can use to jumpstart your next project.

Web Designer's Idea Book, Volume 4

Web Designer's Idea Book, Volume 4
Author: Patrick McNeil
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1440333238

Discover the latest trends in web design! Looking for inspiration for your latest web design project? Expert Patrick McNeil, author of the popular Web Designer's Idea Book series, is back with all new examples of today's best website design. Featuring more than 650 examples of the latest trends, this fourth volume of The Web Designer's Idea Book is overflowing with visual inspiration. Arranged categorically, this fully illustrated guide puts important topics like design styles, elements, themes and responsive design at your fingertips. This new volume also includes a detailed discussion of portfolios to help you stay ahead of the pack and keep your portfolio fresh and relevant. The world of web design is constantly reinventing itself. Stay on top of what's hot with the latest installment of this indispensable reference.

Flexible Web Design

Flexible Web Design
Author: Zoe Mickley Gillenwater
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010-04-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0132104687

Liquid or fluid layouts change width based on the user's unique device viewing size. These types of layouts have always been possible with tables but offer new design challenges as well as opportunities when built with CSS. This book, for experienced Web designers with some CSS experience, outlines how to do this successfully. Designers will learn the benefits of flexible layouts and when to choose a liquid, elastic, or hybrid design. They will learn not only how to build a liquid layout from scratch using standards-compliant and cross-browser compatible (X)HTML and CSS, but will also learn how to design and slice their graphic comps in a way that makes flexible design achievable. This book will show designers that flexible layouts do not have to be visually boring or difficult to build when planned and built correctly. Even those who do not intend to build liquid layouts can use the concepts and techniques taught in this book to improve their fixed-width CSS designs, because they will learn how to design for the inherent flexibility of the web medium, instead of the rigid qualities of print media or table grid-based layouts.

Adaptive Web Design

Adaptive Web Design
Author: Aaron Gustafson
Publisher: New Riders
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-11-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0134216202

Building an elegant, functional website requires more than just knowing how to code. In Adaptive Web Design, Second Edition, you’ll learn how to use progressive enhancement to build websites that work anywhere, won’t break, are accessible by anyone—on any device—and are designed to work well into the future. This new edition of Adaptive Web Design frames even more of the web design process in the lens of progressive enhancement. You will learn how content strategy, UX, HTML, CSS, responsive web design, JavaScript, server-side programming, and performance optimization all come together in the service of users on whatever device they happen to use to access the web. Understanding progressive enhancement will make you a better web professional, whether you’re a content strategist, information architect, UX designer, visual designer, front-end developer, back-end developer, or project manager. It will enable you to visualize experience as a continuum and craft interfaces that are capable of reaching more users while simultaneously costing less money to develop. When you’ve mastered the tenets and concepts of this book, you will see the web in a whole new way and gain web design superpowers that will make you invaluable to your employer, clients, and the web as a whole. Visit http://adaptivewebdesign.info to learn more.

The Web Designer's Idea Book Volume 2

The Web Designer's Idea Book Volume 2
Author: Patrick McNeil
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010-08-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1440311188

Web Design Inspiration at a Glance Volume 2 of The Web Designer’s Idea Book includes more than 650 new websites arranged thematically, so you can easily find inspiration for your work. Author Patrick McNeil, creator of the popular web design blog designmeltdown.com and author of the original bestselling Web Designer’s Idea Book, has cataloged thousands of sites, and showcases the latest and best examples in this book. The web is the most rapidly changing design medium, and this book offers an organized overview of what’s happening right now. Sites are categorized by type, design element, styles and themes, structural styles, and structural elements. This new volume also includes a helpful chapter explaining basic design principles and how they can be applied online. Whether you’re brainstorming with a coworker or explaining your ideas to a client, this book provides a powerful communication tool you can use to jumpstart your next project.

Head First Web Design

Head First Web Design
Author: Ethan Watrall
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2009
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0596520301

Looks at ways to create an attractive and user-friendly Web site, covering such topics as customer requirements, storyboards, HTML, and CSS.