Robin Williams Web Design Workshop

Learn design theory and practical know-how from the award-winning author/design team, Robin Williams and John Tollett!Robin Williams introduced design and typographic principles to legions of readers with her best-selling Non-Designer's book series. Now she and designer/co-author John Tollett take you to the next level of creative design with practical advice and lessons in composition, visual impact, and design challenges. Presented in Robin and John's signature stylewriting that is so crystal clear, it's accessible to absolutely anyoneand illustrated with hundreds of full-color design examples, the ideas in this book tackle design theory, visual puns, and layout and graphics strategies for real-world projects. Developing designers will appreciate the authors' imaginative approach and well-chosen examples.Discover practical and effective design principles and conceptsand how to apply them to virtually any project.Learn why some designs are attention-getting and others are not.Learn how to choose just the right lookcorporate or casual, classic or trendyfor specific types of projects, such as business cards, letterhead and envelopes, newsletters and brochures, logos, advertising, and more.Test your design acumen by comparing before-and-after examples.Find a wealth of inspiration for your own design projects.Gain insight into the design process by studying the work of guest designers, who offer their personal commentary and insights.

Robin Williams has taught millions what makes for good design and why, never forgetting that most of us don't speak jargon—and she does it all with a disarming sense of humor. Now Robin, with coauthors John Tollett and Dave Rohr, translates the principles of creative, effective design to the Web in Robin Williams Web Design Workshop.

Learn from these pros everything you need to know about Web design, including the ways that color, fonts, clip art, photographs, and layout can work together to create the visual impression you want. Robin doesn't just tell you about good Web design, she shows you, walking you through every step of the design process, from site planning and layout to navigation design and functionality—the book is illustrated with hundreds of full-color examples. Like Robin herself, Robin Williams Web Design Workshop strikes the perfect teaching balance, combining theory and real-world experience, all wrapped up in a colorful, engaging package.

Tackling all aspects of Web design theory, including the ways that color, fonts, clip art, photographs and so on contribute to creating a visual impression, this book is for any course in Web Design, Graphic Design, Web Graphics, Advertising Design or Visual Communications. It takes the students through site planning and layout and others. Illustrating her ideas with hundreds of examples, Williams takes her lessons on creative design, highly regarded within the graphics community, and applies them to the Web. Full color. In this text, Robin Williams takes her lessons on creative design, highly regarded within the graphics community, and applies them to the Web