Chapter Summaries - Creating Web Sites by MacDonald - Chapter 1

Chapter Summaries - Learning Web Design by J. N. Robbins
Preface
Robbins provides us with updates to his material with information including:
-WWW Consortium standards of writing and web pages
-CSS style sheets
-covers information for beginners, seasoned designers, office assistants, grad students
-goal is to create CSS layouts
-learningwebdesign.com
-bookquestions@oreilly.com
-O'Reilly Media, Inc. is the publisher, 800-998-9938 www.O'Reillycom

Chapter Summaries - Principles of Beautiful Web Design by J. Beaird
Preface
Beaird lets us know he will be focusing on the creation and impact of well designed web sites offering:
-trendy designs and content can loose appeal
-web sites should be intentially well designed, functional and easy to understand

Chapter Summaries - Creating Web Sites by MacDonald - Chapter 1
MacDonald gives us a great introduction to the overall definition of blog, surfing, Internet, WWW, and the history that governs the current designs and operations as opposed to the slow, cumbersome beginnings it experienced in the early 60's up to the 80's and 90's even. He lists names of web browsers, servers, web hosts, and spyware and their websites and capacities and compatibilities. He lays out stages and the ingredients of building web sites.
-1969 first transmission 2 computers
-1981 200 computers interacting
-1993 first web browser
-www.isoc.org/internet/history
-www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html
-today 8 million+ web sites

Chapter Summaries - Creating Your First Page - by MacDonald - Chapter 2
MacDonald starts us off with the anatomy of a web page detailing a glossary of acronums and examples of the basics to building a web page including:
-HTML
-HTML tag
-Stand alone tag
-Nesting tags
-60 tags but 25 tags used regularly