Building a Web Site for Dummies by David A. Crowder – c€15.00 + IVA (ISBN: 0764571443) – try www.amazon.com
This week, to remain in tune with our website building theme, I have chosen to review a book and not a piece of equipment.
This week, to remain in tune with our website building theme, I have chosen to review a book and not a piece of equipment.
If you are just getting your feet wet in Web site construction, the first big hurdle is figuring out where to start. Building a Web Site for Dummies lightens things up with humour and makes the challenge of building a site far less daunting.
This book doesn't zoom you right into coding HTML, although it covers the markup language quite well. Instead, it offers a much easier to understand, higher level look at site design by examining the general questions of navigation principles, affiliates possibilities, building communications with your users, and other wide-ranging topics. For this reason, the book covers a lot of ground and offers a broad perspective on site design that transcends simple page coding.
A couple of the more useful sections on Web site tools and e-commerce cover useful utilities like NetMechanic, Statbot and Spinwave. The chapter on e-commerce helps you get to know the ropes of selling stuff online and points you to online malls, fulfilment services, and currency converters.
The companion CD-ROM contains evaluation versions of useful tools like Paint Shop Pro, HomeSite 4.5, Fireworks, Dreamweaver and Statbot. You won't find all the knowledge you seek to become a Web site guru in this book, but you will gain perspective and learn tons of useful tips and tricks. (review from amazon.com).
Book Description
The only book that walks the reader through designing, building, publishing, publicizing, and updating a Web site without focusing on a specific tool. It has now been updated to cover the latest Web-building tools and techniques, including building a site for eBay items, collecting money with PayPal, updating via a blog, and improving a site's search engine success. It guides readers through every aspect of creating and maintaining a site, from designing around a theme and adding content from other sources to keeping a site current and collecting comments from site users Also, the book Includes a CD-ROM filled with trial and demo versions of the software covered in the book so readers can dive right in and start building their site
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