This book/CD-ROM package features 50 professional quality, license-free Web design templates that can be quickly and easily customized. Each ready-to-use design includes a homepage, one second-level page, and the framework to build subsequent pages. Detailed tutorials teach all of the specific techniques required for building these and other highly usable sites, including the basics of HTML, Photoshop, and CSS. Whether you are an intermediate Web designer looking to take your sites to the next level or a more experienced designer looking to improve your professional skills, you will find the tools to meet your needs in Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates. The companion CD-ROM includes all source files for each of the designs covered in the book, complete HTML and JavaScript customization packages, and demo versions of third party software.

Features

• Includes 50 professional quality, ready-to-use, license-free Web designs that can be quickly and easily customized
• Teaches how to use nested tables and compressed images to develop an attractive, effective, and fully functional Web site
• Provides detailed tutorials and case studies that explain how to create designs for low, medium, or high content sites and teach the strengths and weaknesses of each
• Shows how to upload your site to a server and test for compatibility with Internet Explorer and Netscape
• Explains technical and aesthetic graphics issues, from when to use GIF or JPG images to which design will best suit your content
• CD includes all source files for each of the Web designs in the book, complemented by complete versions of the JavaScript CD Cookbook, 3rd Edition and The HTML/CSS Developer’s Resource Guide. It also provides demo versions of Photoshop 6.0, Macromedia Flash 5, and other valuable third party software

Table of Contents

Overview of Web Development Today; What is Needed to Build Mortised Sites; Things to Consider Before Beginning; How to Build a Mortised Site; Tips and Tricks; Case Studies; Designs; Appendix: CSS Reference Material

Clint Eccher (Fort Collins, CO) is an award-winning Web designer with over eleven years of experience creating professional Web sites. He is the owner of A5design, a Web design company that not only is commissioned by Fortune 500 companies, national non-profit organizations, and small businesses, but also does the design work for many marketing and advertising firms. He is also the author of Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates, first edition, and co-author of the second edition.