A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design.
Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great one.
Who should read this book?
Anyone who fancies a great read! No, seriously, if you’re a designer, developer, or content producer, reading A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web will enrich your website design and plug the holes in your design knowledge.
To put it in the real world, you could use this book for:
- Understanding the design process
- Learning about typography
- Getting to grips with colour and creating great colour combinations
- Creating great layouts by gaining an understanding in compositional theory
- If you’re a seasoned pro, brushing up on your graphic design theory
This book is about graphic design basics as applied to web. It will provide you with a base-line understanding of typography, colour theory and layout, all built on top of a base of research and process. It will give you what you need to take your designs to the next level.
Topics include:
- Getting Started: In this part, you'll learn about what it takes to get started for designing for the web. You'll learn about the various tools, processes, and practices.
- Research and Ideas: Design begins with information, information gleaned from research. This research in turn informs ideas. In this part, you'll learn the various techniques to help get your design off on the right foot.
- Typography: Typographic design is more than just picking a font. In this part, you'll learn how good typographic design is at the very heart of good web design.
- Designing with colour: In this part, you'll learn basic colour theory. How to create stunning colour palettes and ensure they are applied to the web in the best way possible.
- Layout: In this part, you'll learn how to use compositional devices such as The Golden Section, and grid systems to bring your designs together.
Book Details
- Paperback: 264 pages
- Publisher: Five Simple Steps LLP (April, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0956174019
- ISBN-13: 978-0956174017
- File Size: 54.4 MiB
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