Head First Web Design

Want to know how to make your pages look beautiful, communicate your message effectively, guide visitors through your website with ease, and get everything approved by the accessibility and usability police at the same time? Head First Web Design is your ticket to mastering all of these complex topics, and understanding what's really going on in the world of web design.

Whether you're building a personal blog or a corporate website, there's a lot more to web design than div's and CSS selectors, but what do you really need to know? With this book, you'll learn the secrets of designing effective, user-friendly sites, from customer requirements to hand-drawn storyboards all the way to finished HTML and CSS creations that offer an unforgettable online presence.

Your time is way too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First Web Design uses a visually rich format specifically designed to take advantage of the way your brain really works.

About the Authors
Ethan Watrall is an Assistant Professor at Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters & Social Sciences Online, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University. In addition, Ethan is a Principal Investigator in the Games for Entertainment & Learning Lab, and co- founder of both the undergraduate Specialization and Game Design Development and the MA in Serious Game Design at Michigan State University. Ethan teaches in a wide variety of areas including cultural heritage informatics, user centered & user experience design, game design, serious game design, game studies, and ancient Egyptian social history & archaeology. In addition to a wide variety of academic papers & conference presentations, Ethan has written a number of books on interactive design & web design. When heʼs not being professorial, heʼs a world class comic book nerd (Killowog is so his favorite Green Lantern), a sci-fi dork (heʼll argue to the grave that Tom Baker is the best Doctor ever), and an avid player of all sorts of games (digital, board, and tabletop). Ethanʼs digital alterego can be found at Captain Primate.

Jeff Siarto is a web and user experience designer and co-author of Head First Web Design. He currently calls Chicago home and works as a consultant for Michigan State University—designing and maintaining internal web applications. He was a student of the standards-based web design movement and a current supporter of open courseware, sustainable learning and open source software. Jeff also writes on web development, standards and usability at his blog, Simplifying the Web.