May 12, 2008
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A5design Professional Web Design Books

 Owner and Production Director Clint Eccher is an award-winning web designer and internationally published author of the below web design books.    

New Book - "Advanced Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates" 

Advanced Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates (CSS & XHTML) is the must-have book for advanced designers who want to expand their skills and improve the quality of their designs. Learning CSS technology and continually improving one's design and developer skills is becoming increasingly essential for every Web designer in today's marketplace. This book teaches designers and developers how to bridge the knowledge gap from XHTML table-based design to full CSS-based design, and master the technologies and techniques needed. But the book isn't just about the theory behind design; it's about putting it into practice right away. Using the 140 customizable designs, designers can use what they learn immediately. This indispensable collection of designs includes 20 CSS-driven templates, 80 XHTML table-based templates, 10 e-newsletter templates, 10 signature templates, and 20 Photoshop designs that can be coded. The book goes well beyond the authors' very successful Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates by providing advanced tools and techniques that teach how e-commerce and shopping carts work, explain the concept of database-driven sites, and show how to create relative sizing designs, among other important topics. The techniques are taught with an emphasis on CSS, including explanations, examples, and templates that go far beyond existing CSS documentation. The database-driven and e-commerce examples in the book are written using CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language). Because the purpose of this book is to give a high-level explanation of such techniques, the techniques can be easily translated to other languages, such as ASP/ASP.Net, JSP, and PHP. This is a unique training course and free library of templates all in one!

Quicklinks

* View Designs Included with Book
* View Sample Full-Height Three-Column CSS Web Design Included With Book
* Purchase the book


Previous Book - "Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates"

Barring explanations of creating table-based design, which are quickly becoming antiquated, this book still offers very useful information. Following are a few of the features of the book:

  • Covers the entire design process, from gathering requirements and creating a comp, to enhancing usability, designing for scalability, developing architecture, and simplifying navigation.
  • Explains technical and aesthetic graphics issues, from when to use GIF or JPEG images to which design will best suit your content.
  • Teaches you how to upload your site to a server and test for compatibility with Web browsers.
  • WEB SITE TEMPLATES - Provides the 50 license-free, ready-to-use templates from the original edition, 15 new templates, and 5 HTML e-mail templates.

    Purchase the first edition  Purchase the second edition

 

Book Retailers

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