Web Design Essentials

I am a print and web designer and I found that this book was really helpful. I liked how the chapters were divided in a logical progression, and how the tips within each chapter were ordered from simplest to most difficult. The tips on LiveMotion were a bit challenging for me, however...I think there could have been some finessing of that section. Nonetheless, the book is lovely to peruse with its colorful and diverse styles of artwork. The layout was clean and I was able to follow along with the tips pretty easily. I agree with the previous reviewers that this book might not be for a beginner, but as an intermediate to power-user, I think the tips, and the book as a whole, were quite worthwhile.

Web Design Essentials introduces readers to some of the more advanced features of Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator, and GoLive programs, and brings together the talents and advice of a number of seasoned contributors.Readers will receive an advanced education in planning Websites through the use of flowcharting, optimizing graphics images for the Web, designing Web navigational graphics and interfaces, creating animated GIF images and DHTML animations, producing sensational rollovers, and learning a number of enhanced table, frames, and cascading style sheet effects.The educational presentation of this book is phenomenal. Readers are treated to high quality graphic image illustrations, clear and easy-to-read text, high-resolution screen shots, and excellent layout that bring out in rich detail the special effects that Photoshop and other professional-grade programs are capable of producing.This book is ideally suited for Web savvy professionals and those persons already capable of handling Photoshop. The work in this book is stunning and represents the best in the industry. Readers who come to grips with the programs featured in the book should be able to match them after some practice!

This book rates five stars in several categories: Very pleasing layout design. Content is straightforward, easy to read. And, probably most important,content is very helpful.Kudos to these three women: Giudice,Dennis and Franceschini.

Maria Giudice and Anita Dennis' Professional Studio Techniques Web Design Essentials provides expert advice on advanced web design features; from slicing images for HTML tables to using JavaScript rollover and GIF graphics formats. All the basics are here for advanced web functions.

A logical flow with tips and techniques from preparing graphics to animations and image maps, this book provides a user-friendly yet thorough introduction to website design. The book is laid out in something of a lesson format similar to the Adobe Classroom in a Book series, and is a perfect reference to those "how do I..?" questions. Many Web experts provide the techniques, which are labeled as easy/intermediate/advanced. For the beginner, Web Design Essentials is not a huge, intimidating manual, yet it shows techniques that produce high-quality websites. For expert codeheads, this book is simply the icing on the cake. In all, an essential book to improve a web designer's technique.