Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics

This text is a great introduction to web design. It covers a huge variety of topics and is well organized. The scope and sequence are appropriate for a beginner textbook on web design. I enjoyed reading and completing the exercises, and I have learned A LOT. The explanations and diagrams are helpful and relevant. It’s a winner for this beginner.

This book is a solid introduction to the concepts that you need for web design. I've just returned to web design after a 20 year hiatus (basically back to being a beginner again). The author's writing style is super accessible and clear, the sections are laid out logically, and the exercises really help solidify the information that has been presented. This book is also a very handy reference. The color coding of the pages for the various sections makes it so that you can quickly get to what you're you're looking for. Even though it's geared toward beginners, the author doesn't shy away from advanced topics - helping readers understand how they relate to what they're learning and pointing readers in the right direction if they're interested in digging more deeply into advanced topics.

This book introduces and explains the concepts and goes on to run through the HTML structures, styles and CSS, some JavaScript, the Document Object Model (DOM), and looks at the use of images in web pages and the things that can be done on a webpage. Someone who has not done this before should be able to design simple webpages after working through this book. If, having read it and worked through it, you want to do more advanced stuff on your webpages, you would need another book covering JQuery, ReactJS and server-side programming using Node.js for example.

I had to get this book for a web design class I'm taking. I wish I got it sooner. It's great so far but I wish it showed what the HTML looks like in a browser next to the code so you can see what it'll look like completed. That's my only complaint. I like how the links still work and it's up to date since it's now February, 2026.

I am impressed by this book. The tone is conversational to keep it from sounding too clinical and dry in its discussion of topics, but the quality of information presented is top-notch. I am certain this book is used in college level courses. The book covers all essential introductory concepts well enough to get a beginner started. I finding this it indispensable for clarifying concepts when I am feeling confused by something. I also appreciate that in one of the introductory chapters the author makes recommendations for additional book titles that offer advanced topical instruction beyond the intended scope of this title.

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The print and graphics blow the Kindle version away. She covers some advanced topics early on, but an up-to-date book on web programming, my favorite over Murach, and titles on O'Reilly.

I have some experience with programming, lately Excel VBA. But I knew very little about html and designing web pages. This book is the best. Very good presentation of all the aspects of building a web page. I like the exercises and the immediate results of seeing what the coding does. The book is a little thin on Javascript, but that's ok. There's much to learn in this book. I'm getting another book just on Javascript.

The author has a clear vision of how to teach beginners HTML, CSS and JS. The chapters are well structured, and contents are well explained so that all the necessary details are covered. The accompanying zip package contains all the materials you need for the exercises. The author understands the differences in various features between previous versions of HTML and the new HTML5. It gives me a feeling, whenever I have questions regarding certain features, the exact questions are answered immediately in the following texts. The author knows your questions and confuses so well and she explains everything extremely clear. This is a great book, and it will also be a good reference for experienced veterans in the field as well.

L'ho pagato 42 euro, ora sta a 50 ma secondo me li vale, è un vero e proprio manuale che spiega nel dettaglio html5 e css3 con numerosissimi consigli su come ottimizzare l'uso della banda, su come rendere responsive un sito, illustrando meccanismi di fallback per browser che potrebbero non supportare una determinata tecnologia non lascia nulla al caso, insomma una reference completissima, mi reputo assolutamente soddisfatto. Per quanto riguarda js ovviamente il capitolino dedicato non è neanche sufficiente a comprendere i rudimenti.

Excellent book, highly recommended. The material is presented in a clear manner which unfolds from simple to more complex. The writing style both encourages and challenges the reader.

I got this to teach myself web design. This is a really comprehensive book that does not assume any prior knowledge, and focuses on HTML and CSS, but also the process of web design, industry terminology etc. The quality is similar to taking a tertiary subject with a lecturer experienced in the industry - significantly more thorough than a standard 'DIY' book. The Javascript content is very minimal, but this is a book you might look at prior to learning Javascript.

I get more and more impressed with this book, the more I re-read it and work with the examples and exercises. It's superbly paced, allowing opportunities for new concepts and knowledge to sink in (in the chapter on flexbox and grid layout, which is particularly long and complex, the author provides a picture of a red panda, just as a moment of relief and relaxation, before starting on grid layout). Also, the examples and exercises ***work***, unlike those in so many "learning" books on computer subjects - and the code in the downloadable material matches that printed in the book - again, something which is quite unusual. Highly recommended.