Web Design For Dummies

339 Pages·2006·44.718 MB·English

by  Lisa Lopuck

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Web Design
FOR
DUMmIES
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2
ND EDITION
by Lisa Lopuck
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Web Design
FOR
DUMmIES
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ND EDITION
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Web Design
FOR
DUMmIES
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ND EDITION
by Lisa Lopuck
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Web Design For Dummies®, 2nd Edition
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About the Author
In 1988, Lisa Lopuckgot her first glimpse of multimedia while still at UCLA
pursuing her degree in design. She saw a tiny, black-and-white, interactive
HyperCard stack designed by The Voyager Company and immediately knew
her career path.
Her first job out of school was working at the Apple Multimedia Lab in
SanFrancisco. She then moved on to Skywalker Ranch, working with
GeorgeLucas to design educational CD-ROMs. The rest has been inter-
activehistory — working with everyone from Kaleida to eBay, writing
bestselling books, teaching, and speaking at conferences along the way.
In 1996, she co-founded Electravision, an award-winning Web design agency in
San Francisco with clients such as Twentieth Century Fox, National Geographic,
Microsoft, and Mall of America. Electravision’s work won awards, including
Yahoo!’s Best of the Year, Site of the Day, and Best of the Web. Electravision
also created the highly acclaimed online murder mystery series, Suspect,
oneof the Web’s first online entertainment series.
Recently, Lisa was an Associate Creative Director and Senior Producer at
Disney where she managed the production of large-scale, large-budget, multi-
language Web sites for Disney’s theme parks and hotels around the world
such as www.DisneyCruiseLine.comand www.HongKongDisneyland.com.
Lisa is now a design consultant helping companies shape their Web creative
strategy. She is also an accomplished watercolor artist, and a signature
member of the National Watercolor Society. You can see her paintings online
at www.lopuck.com, and her Web portfolio at www.lopuck.com/portfolio.
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Dedication
For my husband, Matt, who is my chief evangelist, and for my daughter,
Jasmine, who is now inspired to write and illustrate her own books.
For my parents who always encouraged me to reach for the stars.
Author’s Acknowledgments
Thanks to the many people who helped make this book possible: The team at
WebAssist who provided support and examples in this book, and awesome
software that allows us non-techies to do great things; to colleagues and com-
panies who provided wonderful examples to use in this book; to my friends at
Macromedia and Adobe who make sure I always have the latest software; and
to Kim Darosett, my editor, who kept everything on track.