An introducton to design principles for beginning Web users explains how to create a Web site without any code, how to integrate graphics into a personal Web page, and how to get their finished site up on the Web. Original. (Beginner).

The Non-Designer's Web Book: An Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site

Computers & Technology

Williams, Robin

Tollett, John

Graphics & Design

Peachpit Pr

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 style—writing that is so crystal clear, it's accessible to absolutely anyone—and 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 author's imaginative approach and well-chosen examples. <ul>
<li>Discover practical and effective design principles and concept–and how to apply them to virtually any project.</li> <li>Learn why some designs are attention-getting and others are not.</li> <li>Learn how to choose just the right look—corporate or casual, classic or trendy—for specific types of projects, such as business cards, letterhead and envelopes, newsletters and brochures, logos, advertising, and more.</li> <li>Test your design acumen by comparing before-and-after examples.</li> <li>Find a wealth of inspiration for your own design projects.</li> <li>Gain insight into the design process by studying the works of guest designers, who offer their personal commentary and insights.</li> </ul>

Robin Williams Design Workshop

Web Development & Design

The iBook is a handy but affordable portable computer from Apple. This text includes creative ideas for using the iBook at home or in the office and is filled with real-world examples. There is a strong focus on how to travel and send e-mail with the machine.

The Little iBook Book

Explains the basics in a non-intimidating style and an easy-to-follow format, offering tips, techniques, design samples, and more. Starts with the basics, then moves into design theory, then on on to graphic and technical details, and finally testing, fixing, uploading, updating, registering, and promoting the site once it is finished. Softcover.

The Non-Designer's Web Book : An Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site

Robin Williams has taught millions what makes for good design and why, never forgetting that most of us dont 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 doesnt 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.

Robin Williams Web Design Workshop

Rohr, David

The Mac community's leading teacher, Robin Williams, is at it again--this time guiding users through the ins and outs of the newest generation of iMacs. Employing the same friendly, comprehensive approach as its best-selling predecessors, The Little iMac Book, Third Edition has been completely revised to cover all of the iMac's new features--and there are plenty! 
Once you get over being dazzled by the iMac's dramatic new hardware design and knock-your-socks-off 15-inch flat-panel display, you'll see that there's plenty going on inside the "box" as well, including a radically redesigned operating system (Mac OS X), a DVD player, iPhoto digital photo organizing software, a new e-mail and address book application, and much more. Robin and co-author John Tollett take you through the old and the new, starting with the basics of using the mouse and getting around the desktop, then going on to show you how to take advantage of the iMac's built-in productivity tools, how to connect to and browse the Internet, and more. Let the book that has influenced a generation of Mac users take you and your iMac into the next generation of computing.

The Little Imac Book

Science & Math

Mathematics

Robin Williams DVD Design Workshop provides a clear, accessible introduction to the world of DVD menu design and authoring. If you're an amateur video artist, home-movie buff, or professional designer, you can use this book as a great introduction to learning how to create DVDs for your personal use or professional projects. John Tollett, David Rohr, and Robin Williams make it easy by presenting necessarytechnical information and design inspiration in the classic informaland friendly style that has made Robin's books continual best-sellers.Robin Williams DVD Design Workshop provides all of theinformation you need to understand the DVD authoring process and to get started with your own DVD projects. You'll learn about the advantages of the DVD format, applications of DVD technology, hardware requirements, and the pros and cons of various consumer vs. prosumer DVD authoring tools. The book also includes overviews of leading Mac and PC DVD authoring software tools, such as iDVD, MyDVD, DVD Studio Pro, DVD Producer and more. To get you inspired, the authors includeexamples of successful (and sometimes unusual) DVD interface designs from professional designers and major Hollywood studios. Valuable outsource resources for packaging and distributing your own DVD are also included.

Robin Williams Dvd Design Workshop

The Little Mac Book has taught a generation of readers how to use the Mac and spawned a best-selling series of Little Books that remove the fear from learning by adopting a gentle, non-techie approach to technical topics. It¿s hard to call a book little, however, when it becomes so thick and chock-full of info that it takes two people to lift it¿which is exactly what would have happened if author Robin Williams had tried to fit a detailed discussion of Apple¿s powerful OS X iApps into her latest edition of The Little Mac Book¿called Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, Jaguar Edition. Thus was born this handy companion volume: The Little Mac iApps Book. The Little Mac iApps Book provides detailed coverage of each powerful iApp that Mac OS X installs on your computer: Mail, iCal, iChat, Rendezvous, iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, Preview, and iDVD. Through tips, techniques, and tutorials, best-selling authors John Tollett and Robin Williams teach not just how to use the individual iApps, but how to use them together and interactively. The book also discusses the benefits of setting up a .Mac account¿all in the friendly, funny, unintimidating style you¿ve come to expect from this popular series. If you want to tap the power of Mac OS X¿s iApps¿whether you¿re a beginner or a veteran Mac user¿you need this book.

The Little Mac Iapps Book: A Guide to Apple's Applications, Mac.Com, and More

Hardware & DIY

No matter how many bells and whistles a new operating system offers--and with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther the list is a long one--using that new OS can be an intimidating process. Unless, of course, you have Robin Williams in your corner: In this volume she once again works her magic by providing a gentle and friendly introduction to Mac OS X Panther. In these pages, Robin covers not just the basics of using a Mac under Mac OS X--printing, sending e-mail, exchanging files, surfing the Internet--but all of the important new and improved features as well: working with Panther's all-new Finder, using Expose to work with windows, getting started with iChat AV, expanded coverage of networking, improved Web access with the Safari browser, working with Mail, and lots more.

The Robin Williams Mac OS X Book: Panther Edition

Operating Systems

Prepare to pounce! This book offers all the friendly, practical instruction you need to immediately take advantage of the powerfully enhanced applications that come pre-installed with Mac OS X Panther. Through tutorials, tips, and techniques you'll learn how to use each of the powerful apps--both individually and as part of an integrated, interactive suite. Robin and John also cover the features of the immensely popular .Mac account and its applications. Whether you're a new or veteran user, you'll welcome this volume's easy approach to all that's new (and not so new) in Panther's application collection. You'll find an entire chapter on GarageBand, Apple's new consumer-level music-making software. You'll also learn everything about getting on the Internet and using email, including the greatest web browser, Safari; the way-cool iChat AV, which adds audio and video to instant messaging; an updated iTunes, which includes access to the revolutionary Apple iTunes Music Store; a powerfully updated iCal with its enhanced alarms and robust time zone support; haunting new visual effects in iMovie; updated features in the .Mac applications, including iSync, Backup, Virex, Mail, Homepage, iCards; and much more.

Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps: A Guide to iLife, .Mac, and More

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