<designing web graphic.3> : how to prepare images and media for the web / Lynda Weinman.

Contents;

1 GETTING STARTED
Lynda's Career Counseling
Training
Teach Yourself
What Skills Are Important?
First Career Steps, etc.

2 HTML EDITORS
What is HTML?
Why is HTML so Troublesome for Design?
Should you Learn HTML, ETC.

3 STRATEGY
First Steps
Storyboarding
Case Study: From Storyboard to Production
Flowcharting
Navigation Approaches, etc

4 Web Authoring Environments
Browser Differences
Resources for Tips on Brower and HTML Differences
Guidelines for Compatibility
The Dreaded AQL Browser
Cross-Platform Color Calibration Issues, etc.
5 WEB FILE FORMATS
Bitmap or Vector
Lossless or Lossy
Gif Compression
JPEG
PNG ,etc.

6 LOW-BANDWITH GRAPHICS
File Size and Downloading Speed
What Size Your File Really Is
File Size Reporting in Image Ready and Fireworks
Evaluating the Style of Your Image, etc.

7 COLOR CALIBRATION ISSUES
RCB Versus CMYK
RGB and ICC Profiles
My Thoughts About ICC Color Profile?
More Gamma Issues
SRGB in Photoshop 5.0 etc.

8 BROWSER-SAFE COLOR
What is the Browser-Safe Palette?
Browser-Safe Color Organized by Value
Browser-Safe Color Charts Organized by Hue
Why Does the Browser-Safe Palette Exist?
When to Use the Browser-Safe Color Palette?

9 COLOR AESTHETICS
Color Vocabulary
Choosing Color Themes
Applying Color Relationships to Web Design
Color Relationships Tools
Readability, etc.

10 COLOR HTML TAGS
Default Colors
Color Attributes
Link Colors
Using Color Names Instead of Hex
Summary

11 LINKING BASICS
Identifying Links
Linked Images
Importance of Width and Height
Importance of ALT
Thumbnails and Large Image, etc.

12 BACKGROUND TILS
Tiling Backgrounds
Full-Screen Body Backgrounds
File Formats For Patterned Tiles
Seams or No Seams, That is the Question
Seamless Tiles in Image Ready ,etc.

13 TRANSPARENT ARTWORK
What is Transparency?
Faking Transparency
GIF Transparency
Pro and Anti-Aliasing
Glows, Soft Edges, and Drop Shadows with GIF Transparency, etc.

14 RULES, BUTTONS, & BULLETS
Horizontal Rules
Using Photoshop 5.0 to Create Custom Rule Art
Vertical Rules
Clip Art Rules. Too
Bullets, etc.

15 IMAGEMAPS
Client-Side and Server-Side Image maps
Client-Side Image map
Server-Side Image map
Combining Server and Client-Side Image maps
Importance of the ALT Tag, etc.

16 WEB TYPOGRAPHY
Glossary of key Typographic
Glossary of Elements Not Possible with HMTL
Type 101
Aesthetic Consideration
HTML-Based Typography, etc.

17 ALIGNMENT & TABLES
How Big is a Web Page?
Using HTML For Alignment
Horizontal and Vertical Attributes
Alternatives to HTML Using Artwork, etc.

18 FRAMES
What Are Frames?
Learning Frames
Target Practice
Fun with Frames
Summary, etc.

19 CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
What is a Style Sheet?
Hiding Styles From Older Browsers
External, Internal and Inline
Type and Measurements.
Working with Typography, etc.

20 SCANNING BFOR THE WEB
What Resolution?
Dictionary of Scanning Terms
scanning Equipment
Digital Cameras and DV
Resizing Images in Photoshop, etc.

21 GIF ANIMATION
The Aesthetics of Animation
Animated GIF Format
Glossary of GIF Animation Terms
How to Create Animation Content
Tools and Techniques for Frame-by-Frame GIF Animation, etc.

22 JAVASCRIPT: ROLLOVERS & MORE
The Short History of JavaScript
Learning Java Script
Rollovers
Creating Rollover
Artwork
Photoshop Layer for Rollovers, etc.

23 DYNAMIC HTML
DHTML Overview
Cool things with DHTML
Drag and Drop
DHTML zone
Other Great DHTML Resources
summary

24 QUICKTIME
QuickTime Basics
Web Advancements
Quick Time 3.0 Web Features
HREF,Sprite, and Text Tracks
Multiple Data Rate Samples
Streaming (sort of)
Image Format support
Cons of Quick Time
Digital Video Terms Glossary
Summary

25 FLASH AND SHOCKWAVE
Flag-Reliance
Flash File Format
Learning Flash
Add a Sound to the Button
Interactivity in flash
Flash Web Integration
HTML Frames with SwF
Shockwave Content
Intro to Director 7
New Web Features
Aftershock for Director and Flash
Summary

26 HTML FOR VISUAL DESIGNERS
HTML Naming Protocols
Relative Versus Absolute path Names
Troubleshooting
Uploading your pages
Common HTML Tags

27 WEB GRAPHICS RESOURCES
Design Conferences
Digital Art Programs
Helpful URLs
Web site Design Galleries
Magazines

Glossary : p. 425-430 . _ Index. p. 431-445