Sue Jenkins - Web Design All-in-One For Dummies

Web Design All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Sue Jenkins

Web Design All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

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About the Author

Sue Jenkins is a professional web and graphic designer, illustrator, fine art photographer, and owner/creative director of Luckychair.com ( www.luckychair.com ), a full-service web and graphic design studio serving businesses across the U.S. since 1997. An award-winning Adobe Certified Expert/Instructor, Sue is the instructor in several Adobe Software Training programs from ClassOnDemand and Lynda.com. She is also the author of numerous For Dummies instructional books on web design, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and Photoshop, including Dreamweaver All-in-One For Dummies (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) and Smashing Photoshop CS5: 100 Professional Techniques (John Wiley & Sons, Inc./SmashingMagazine). Sue holds an MFA in photography and works as an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Marywood University in Pennsylvania. For questions, tips, and fun ideas, follow her on Twitter @LuckychairNews.

Dedication

To Phil.

Authors Acknowledgments

In the making of this book, my humble thanks go out to my kind and hardworking agent, Matt Wagner, who keeps surprising me with fun projects; to executive editor Steve Hayes, for his patience and flexibility with my schedule during the course of this book; and to my project editor, Rebecca Senninger, who has an amazing ability to look at the big picture and move all the pieces around until they fit together beautifully. Special thanks also go to Virginia Sanders, my copy editor, and my technical editor, John Chastain, for their excellent comments and suggestions. Thanks also to all the other folks at Wiley who were a part of this project for their fantastic effort at making this book look great. Id also like to thank my husband, Phil, and son, Kyle, whose support and humor helped me write this book.

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