Web Design for Developers

Do you want to make your web applications look just a little bit better, but you don't have a professional designer on staff? This book van help.

'Web Design for Developers' shows you how to make your web applications look professionally designed. You'll learn how to pick the right colors and fonts, how to avoid costly interface and accessibility mistakes, and how to make your application really come alive.

We'll walk through some common Photoshop tricks and CSS techniques. We'll work through a website redesign,taking a new site all the way from concept to implementation.

You'll learn how to take a sketch and transform it into a digital mockup in Photoshop and then into a working web page. You'll see how to develop logos, icons, and buttons using illustrator and Photoshop, as well as how to code a web page that will load fast, be easy to maintain, and most of all, be accessible to all audiences.

Web design is partly art, but it's mostly good practices and effective, proven techniques. That's what you'll find here.