The CD-ROM that accompanies Web Design Studio Secrets features demos of Photo Animator, Dreamweaver, Flash, and free Photoshop plug-in trials. You also get plenty of sample artwork as well as interviews with today's leading digital artists.
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Designer Jeffery Zeldman's chapter on font usage and CSS is excellent. It offers advice and spotlights some great Web sites on these subjects--like The Little Shop of CSS Horrors (www.haughey.com/csshorrors). Neil Robertson explains the JavaScript behind rollovers and Lisa Lopuck does a nice job explaining tweening GIF animations. Lopuck's lesson in Flash animation, however, is too cursory a tutorial for beginners yet too elementary for those intermediate users looking for something more. Paul Ingram's discussion of Flash is more helpful, although it's not so detailed that beginners won't still need their manuals.
While coverage of HTML in the book is fairly basic, the subject of DHTML fares better. Thomas Noller's Defy the Rules (www.defytherules.com) Web site uses a constant parade of layers to describe Adobe software. However, Noller's chapter only allows a peek over the designer's shoulder; readers don't really learn how to hand-code DHTML or incorporate it into pages created with Web-layout applications.
Some parts of the book seem dated in this second edition. A number of chapters teach formerly complicated processes for tasks that are now easy--optimizing GIFs, for example. Also, at least one interviewee on the CD-ROM says HTML editors aren't useful, citing PageMill as an example. This conversation clearly precedes the advent of the Dreamweaver and GoLive editors. These parts of the book and CD-ROM should have been replaced in the new edition by hints on how to use these major Web design applications more effectively. --Angelynn Grant
Topics covered: Interviews and biographies of 15 Web designers (including tips on HTML, DHTML, and GIF and Flash animation), storyboarding and planning a site, managing Web sites, working with databases, choosing navigation strategies, and publicizing a site. The CD-ROM includes demo software for Extensis and Macromedia, freeware and shareware, QuickTime interviews with designers, links to helpful Web sites, and project files referenced in the text.
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Book Description Audio CD. Condition: Used - Good. Learn the coolest Web design tips, techniques, and secrets from the world's leading experts.-- Uncover the hidden tricks, techniques, processes, and ideas behind some of the Web's hottest sites.-- Learn how to make stunning graphics that maximize your Web page impact.-- Get up to speed on how to use color to make your Web designs stand out.-- Let the experts show you the ins and outs of Web graphics and design techniques with popular applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, FrontPage, PageMill, and others.-- Master the new design capabilities offered by JavaScript, Dynamic HTML, and other Web tools.-- Learn how to create icons, buttons, backgrounds, image maps, textures, splash pages, and much more with real-world examples!-- Make your site load quickly without losing its richness.-- Benefit from loaded CD-ROM that includes special utilities and programs for Web designers. CD also includes images created by the artists and interviews with the design pros. Web Design Studio Secrets shows serious Webmasters, designers, artists, graphics professionals, and developers how to create amazing and effective Web design. By featuring well-known and respected Web design pioneers and their impressive work, best-selling author and graphics guru Deke McClelland uncovers hundreds of original techniques, processes, and ideas used to create eye-catching effects. This lavishly illustrated, full-color book provides a unique collection of knowledge you can't find anywhere -- the stuff of a high-priced, world-class Web design seminar at your fingertips. The CD will include content from designers featured in the book, the latest versions of Navigator and InternetExplorer, as well as interviews with the pros (similar to interviews in Photoshop Studio Secrets). In addition, Web page editors, viewers, and special utilities for Web designers will round out this value-packed CD. Uncover the hidden tricks, techniques, processes, and ideas behind some of the Web's hottest sites. McClelland reveals the ins and outs of Web graphics and design methods with popular applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, FrontPage, PageMill, and others. The CD-ROM contains special utilities and programs plus exclusive images from design pioneers. Open copy, CD-ROM included. Seller Inventory # 258852