Here's a List of Books that are useful for Designing A Home Page
Universal web design, by Crystal Waters A resource and guide to creating design alternatives for the Web, this book will lead Web site designers through those elements
that can be easily (and some, not so easily) altered or enhanced. In-depth coverage and step-by-step solutions explains and shows
how to design a site for optimum appearance and accessibility.
The CD contains tutorial files, conversion and compression software,
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| Preparing Web Graphics is a less expensive, smaller version of Designing Web Graphics.2.
It's geared more towards individuals who may not consider themselves
artists or designers, but want to publish sites with web graphics
that download quickly and look their best. |
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Designing web graphics.2 is a fully updated 2nd edition of Designing Web Graphics. It
includes everything you wanted to know about web design issues,
including crossplatform compatibility, web color and file compression
techniques for speedy graphics. It's twice as thick as the first
edition (almost 500 pages) in glorious full-color, just like the
original. Lots of new info, including Photoshop 4.0 tips and techniques,
animation, PNG, WebTV, and scanning tips. |
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Coloring web graphics.2 helps artists, programmers and hobbyists understand how to work
with color and image file formats for web delivery. A color palette
of 216 browser-safe colors is identified and organized to help
we designers confidently select successful cross-platform color
choices and combinations. The CD-ROM includes hundreds of suggested
color combinations, Photoshop swatch palettes, and browser-safe
clip art files. |
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Deconstructing web graphics teaches you how to study Web design through analyzing and reverse-engineering
how others create successful Web sites. The book includes case
studies and profiles of designers and programmers, by touring
you through their sites, artwork and code, and supplying tutorials
to help you apply their knowledge to your Web site design skills. |
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Digital Character Animation, written by my pal George Maestri, covers the essential information
computer animators need to generate believable characters in 2D
and 3D on the computer. The book covers the nuance and technique
of character animation in great detail. CD contains Quicktime
and AVI examples of multiple walk cycles, lip sync examples, and
other techniques from the book; 3D models; texture maps; and software
demos of programs that provide animation capabilities. It's platform
and software agnostic - and will be a classic book in your computer
graphics library which will not date quickly. Plus -it's georgeous
and well written!
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The CGI Book, by Bill Weinman, is the first -- and most complete -- book on
CGI programming for the World Wide Web. It is written in a clear
and easy-to-read style with examples of complete working CGI programs
in C, Perl, and Borne Shell. |
BTW: If you have good titles to suggest, why not email them to me with a short summary. Thanks.
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