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

by Jennifer Robbins, Aaron Gustafson

Overview

Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You'll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily 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 to help you learn various techniques and short quizzes to make sure you understand key concepts.

This thoroughly revised sixth edition is ideal for students and professionals of all backgrounds and skill levels. It's simple and clear enough for beginners yet thorough enough to be a useful reference for experienced developers keeping their skills up-to-date.

• Build HTML pages with text, links, images, tables, and forms
• Use style sheets (CSS) for formatting text, colors, backgrounds, page layout, and simple animation effects
• Use CSS Flexbox and Grid Layout for sophisticated and flexible page designs
• Learn the ins and outs of responsive web design to make web pages look great on all devices
• Get an introductory lesson in JavaScript programming, and use it to add functionality to web pages
• Understand the ways in which JavaScript has become central to the web development workflow
• Create and optimize web images so they'll download as quickly as possible
• Get to know the superpowers of the SVG format

The sixth edition features a completely rewritten and expanded JavaScript section written by Aaron Gustafson that provides more opportunities to practice writing code.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781098137687
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/01/2025
Edition description:	6th ed.
Pages:	750
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 9.75(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Niederst Robbins was one of the first designers for the Web. As the designer of O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site, she has been designing for the Web since 1993. She is the author of the bestselling "Web Design in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly), and has taught web design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and Johnson and Wales Universityin Providence. She has spoken at major design and Internet events including SXSW Interactive, Seybold Seminars, the GRAFILL conference (Geilo, Norway), and one of the first W3C International Expos.

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
• Getting Started
  
  • Chapter 1: Where Do I Start?
    
  • Chapter 2: How the Web Works
    
  • Chapter 3: Some Big Concepts You Need to Know
    
  
  
  
  
• HTML Markup for Structure
  
  • Chapter 4: Creating a Simple Page: (HTML Overview)
    
  • Chapter 5: Marking Up Text
    
  • Chapter 6: Adding Links
    
  • Chapter 7: Adding Images
    
  • Chapter 8: Table Markup
    
  • Chapter 9: Forms
    
  • Chapter 10: What’s Up, HTML5?
    
  
  
  
  
• CSS for Presentation
  
  • Chapter 11: Cascading Style Sheets Orientation
    
  • Chapter 12: Formatting Text: (Plus More selectors)
    
  • Chapter 13: Colors and Backgrounds: (Plus Even More Selectors and External Style Sheets)
    
  • Chapter 14: Thinking Inside the Box: (Padding, Borders, and Margins)
    
  • Chapter 15: Floating and Positioning
    
  • Chapter 16: Page Layout with CSS
    
  • Chapter 17: Transitions, Transforms, and Animation
    
  • Chapter 18: CSS Techniques
    
  
  
  
  
• JavaScript for Behaviors
  
  • Chapter 19: Introduction to JavaScript
    
  • Chapter 20: Using JavaScript
    
  
  
  
  
• Creating Web Graphics
  
  • Chapter 21: Web Graphics Basics
    
  • Chapter 22: Lean and Mean Web Graphics
    
  
  
  
  
• Answers
  
• CSS3 Selectors
  
• Colophon