Adobe(R) Seminars: Web Page Design

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Editorial Review:

A complete seminar in a book aimed at intermediate business users and beginning desktop designers. "Adobe Seminars: Web Page Design" is a series of 201 techniques that can teach users how to create different graphic elements of a Web page in just a few minutes using Photoshop 4, Illustrator 7, and PageMill 2.

Adobe Seminars: Web Page Design mimics the seminar world by combining a lot of sessions on related topics; you can jump around from session to session or concentrate solely on those you need most. All of the sessions focus on designing Web pages, from production and design to artistic implementation and site management. First, the book teaches you how to define the purpose of your site, figure out the production roles among various people in your organization, and determine your marketing perspective. Next, you learn how to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create graphics, text, and special effects; design a reasonable site structure; create navigational elements and image maps; prepare graphics for the Web; and work with color. You find out how to use Adobe PageMill, the WYSIWYG HTML editor, and Adobe SiteMill, the site manager, to fine-tune your HTML, create HTML tables and frames, and more. You also discover how to create animations from such applications as GifBuilder and Macromedia Director; add sound and video effects using SoundEdit Pro and Premiere; create PDF files with Adobe Acrobat; and grasp trickier aspects such as Web hosting, CGI scripting, and database creation. This full-color guide features plenty of step-by-step instruction, clear illustrations, and a CD-ROM with project files and images and clip art. People with a wide range of skill levels can benefit from this book's tips, including intermediate and semi-advanced Web developers, managers, artists, and programmers.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Falls short in some regards:

I would agree with some of the other reviews here. This is not a beginners book. It assumes at least an intermediate level of understanding of Photshop, Illustrator, Pagemill, to execute some of the excercises.

To the books credit however, it is very nicely laid out -easy to read -in fact images guide you more than the text.

adobe couldve done better:

as someone who is overly familiar with photoshop and fairly new to online design i learned some of the basics of web design techniques from this book - it was a very easy read but there couldve been a little more detail on some of the techniques used - considering this is a book with the name adobe on the cover i expected more - if you have never used photoshop or any adobe products i would shy away from this book - i bought this book in the store for the full price of 40- and i dont think it was worth it -... more info

Multi media:

Very informative

i want the easiest way to design my home page:

i don't know how to design my home page, i'm a beginer. So that, i want the easiest way to design my home page with which software i have to work.