Getting Started Building Websites - Paperback

by Alexander Dawson (Author)

Website design and development can be a minefield for beginners. Where do you start? What languages should you learn? What techniques should you use to produce your site? What should you put on your site? How do you make it look appealing? How do you update it? This book takes into account the most frequently asked website design and development questions and gives you straightforward answers.

• No experience required in this step-by-step guide to website design and development
• Presents the important techniques you need to learn in easy-to-follow examples
• Takes the confusion out of languages, technologies, and all the important elements of the development process

Author Biography

Alexander Dawson is a 25-year-old freelance website designer andconsultant based in the U.K. who specializes in web standards, accessibility, usability engineering, and user interface design. With self-taught experience in software development and producing simple but elegant websites through HTML and CSS, he spends his days (when not working on projects either privately or publicly) absorbing the vast amounts of knowledge in books, the Internet, and other media related to the fast-paced industry of web design. His aim in life is to be able to share his knowledge with the world, so that others who follow the same path can be there at the front lines and not feel intimidated by the constant flow of new technology.