Sue Jenkins - Web design all-in-one desk reference for dummies

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Making Everything Easier!

Everything you need to know

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A Web designer is a graphic designer, creative organizer, visual

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Ethical SEO techniques and how to

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Designing for the Web

Building Web Sites

Web Standards and Testing

Publishing and Site Maintenance

$44.99 US / $53.99 CN / 28.99 UK

ISBN 978-0-470-41796-6

Sue Jenkins is a professional designer with experience in Web sites, print media, logo design, and illustration. She is the author of several books IN FULL COLOR!

and teaches Adobe software; has created training videos on Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and Photoshop; and operates Luckychair, a Web and graphic design studio (www.luckychair.com).

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Web Design

A L L - I N - O N E

FOR

DUMmIES

by Sue Jenkins

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Web Design All-in-One For Dummies

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About the Author

Sue Jenkins is a Web and graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, writer, award-winning teacher, and the principal and creative director of Luckychair (www.luckychair.com), a full-service design studio that has been helping businesses across the United States look better since 1997. When not designing, this Adobe Certified Expert/Adobe Certified Instructor teaches three-day courses in Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and Photoshop at Noble Desktop in New York City. In addition to this For Dummies book, Sue is the author of Dreamweaver CS4 All-in-One For Dummies (Wiley), Dreamweaver 8 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (Wiley), Web Design: The L-Line, The Express Line to Learning (Wiley), and How to Do Everything Illustrator CS4 (McGrawHill), and she was the technical editor of Ed Tittels HTML, XHTML, and CSS