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

Do you wish to have to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the very best place to start. You’ll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then continuously 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 that will help you learn more than a few techniques and short quizzes to make sure to bear in mind 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-the-minute.

• 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 fine details of Responsive Web Design to make web pages look great on all devices
• NEW! Transform 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