The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Second Edition
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, Second Edition is an indepth but fun read that covers Design over 5 packed chapters and 227 pages. This table of contents should give you a good overview of what we've got in store for you.
Table of Contents
Preface
- Who Should Read This Book
- What's in This Book
- Where to Find Help
- The SitePoint Forums
- The Book's Website
- The SitePoint Newsletters
- The SitePoint Podcast
- Your Feedback
- Acknowledgments
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Code Samples
- Tips, Notes, and Warnings
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1. Layout and Composition
- The Design Process
- Discovery
- Exploration
- Implementation
- Defining Good Design
- Web Page Anatomy
- Grid Theory
- The Rule of Thirds
- 960 Grid System
- Balance
- Symmetrical Balance
- Asymmetrical Balance
- Unity
- Proximity
- Repetition
- Emphasis
- Placement
- Continuance
- Isolation
- Contrast
- Proportion
- Bread-and-butter Layouts
- Left-column Navigation
- Right-column Navigation
- Three-column Navigation
- Finding Inspiration
- Using a Morgue File
- Fresh Trends
- Navigationless Magazine Style
- Expansive Footers
- Bare-bones Minimalism
- Resizing: Fixed, Fluid, or Responsive Layouts
- Fixed Width
- Fluid Width
- An Alternative: Responsive Layouts
- Screen Resolution
- Application: Southern Savers
- Getting Started
- The Design Process
2. Color
- The Psychology of Color
- Color Associations
- Color Temperature
- Chromatic Value
- Saturation
- Color Theory 101
- Red, Yellow, and Blue, or CMYK
- The Scheme of Things
- A Monochromatic Color Scheme
- An Analogous Color Scheme
- A Complementary Color Scheme
- Split-complementary, Triadic, and Tetradic
- Other Variants
- Creating a Palette
- Hexadecimal Notation
- Color Tools and Resources
- Color Scheme Designer 3
- Adobe Kuler
- COLOURlovers
- Color Stream iPhone App
- Pictaculous
- Colour Contrast Check
- Application: the Color of Coupons
- The Psychology of Color
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3. Texture
- Point
- Line
- Shape
- Rounded Corners
- Rotation
- Shapes and Layout
- Volume and Depth
- Perspective
- Proportion
- Light and Shadow
- Pattern
- Building Texture
- Aged, Weathered, Worn, and Nostalgic Style
- Clean and Grainy
- Handcrafted Scrapbook
- Whimsical Cartoon Style
- Minimal Texture
- Starting Your Own Textural Trends
- Application: Clipping and Saving
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4. Typography
- Taking Type to the Web
- Text Image Replacement
- Web Fonts with @font-face
- Self-hosted Web Fonts
- Web Font Services
- sIFR and Cufón
- Anatomy of a Letterform
- Text Spacing
- Horizontal Spacing
- Vertical Spacing
- Text Alignment
- Typeface Distinctions
- Serif Fonts
- Sans-serif Fonts
- Handwritten Fonts
- Fixed-width Fonts
- Novelty Fonts
- Dingbat Fonts
- Finding Fonts
- Free Font Galleries
- Commercial Font Galleries
- Individual Artists and Foundries
- Choosing the Right Fonts
- Setting Font Size and Line Height
- Using Punctuation and Special Characters
- Application: The Fine Print
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5. Imagery
- What to Look For
- Legitimate Image Sources
- Take It or Make It
- Stock Photography
- Getting Professional Help
- How Not to Impress
- Google Ganking
- Hotlinking
- Clipart
- Creative Cropping
- Photoshop Adjustments
- File Formats and Resolutions
- Creative Image Treatments
- Using Images to Enhance Images
- Using Pure CSS to Enhance Images
- Application: the Fine Print
- Onward and Upward
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Index
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Customer Reviews
Live, unmoderated reviews from our customers, typos and all.
It shaped and sharpened my view of what is to bread a solid and beautiful design.
Angelo Gulina, USA 
This book approaches the whole concept of web design in a clear and logical way according to clear principles. As I am a coder at heart rather than a designer, this was very helpful indeed.
Ben Davies, USA 
Very helpful book. Technically I know how to build sites and do programming, but unfortunately I'm not very gifted in the artistic department. This book goes some way to alleviate this.
Herman Christiani, USA 
the marketing hype is big, but the content is a bit standard.
Vincent Wong, USA 
I was a big fan of the first edition, which was one of the first books on web design that I ever held in my hands. Glad to see that the same principles apply and have been updated.
Daniel Nettleton, USA
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