Web Design All-in-One For Dummies
5 books in 1Getting StartedDesigning for the WebBuilding WebsitesWeb Standards and TestingPublishing and Site MaintenanceWeb design includes so many tasks! Here's the information you need to complete each oneA web designer wears many hats. Let this book be your hat rack! You'll develop goals for your site, target your audience, design a layout, mock up your design, and optimize the graphics. Then grab your techie hat and learn to build your site with HTML and CSS. From concept to maintenance, here's what you need!Behind the scenes — plan site goals, define your audience, build wireframes and a site map, and choose your toolsPart art, part technology — create a design with visual appeal that also conforms to the rules of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQueryBuilding blocks — set up your page; add text, images, multimedia files, and hyperlinks; organize data; and style pages with CSSTesting, testing — test your site to be sure it works on multiple platforms, browsers, and devicesIt's out there — publish your site, enhance it with SEO techniques, and keep it up to dateOpen the book and find:Ways to attract visitors to your siteHow to design for browsers, phones, and tabletsHow to optimize web graphicsCSS tricks for effective designSteps for constructing navigation systemsHow to link your social media accounts to your websiteTips for conducting prelaunch testingHelp making your site attractive to search engines