Web Tricks and Techniques: Layout: Fast Solutions for Hands-on Design
by Elisabeth Heinicke

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Book Review: Worth a beginner's GLANCE - but not much of an investment
Summary: 3 Stars

If you're a complete novice to web design (author suggests you have some HTML familiarity) you may find the book gives you *a few* new ideas about the potentials of design -- but you'll have a lot of further studying ahead of you. Worth spend thirty minutes browsing in a library or book store... but paying thirty greenbacks or so? "Eric Meyer on CSS" will give you a lot more thorough introduction to the process - and actually enable you to put together several different sites.

And - FWIW - strangely, as of September 2003 the author's web site had only one graphic and her email link - not quite what I'd expect for somewhat committed to web design. Hmmm...

Summary of Web Tricks and Techniques: Layout: Fast Solutions for Hands-on Design

New and better technologies have created increasingly demanding consumers. A Web site that doesn?t incorporate the latest effects will have trouble keeping the user?s attention-and the challenge to deliver lies squarely with today?s Web designers. Now, Rockport Publishers helps answer this challenge with the Web Tricks and Techniques series. These user-friendly reference guides are designed to make even the most complicated and intimidating Web technology easy to understand.

Using a straightforward format that allows readers to look over the shoulder of top design experts, Layout offers tips and tricks for every element of Web page design. Step-by-step instructions walk the reader through a wide range of challenges from general layout issues (storyboarding and architecture essentials) to navigation (pop-down/up menus and collapsible navigation bars) to special effects with text, and an accompanying Web site includes actual HTML codes to download making each featured ?trick? work.

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