A Guide to Website Design
Everything you need to create beautiful and responsive websites
by Marcia Wendorf
For the first time, you have a complete website creation tutorial plus reference guide right in the palm of your hand. All you need to use this guide is a free PDF reader, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, and you can view the guide on your smartphone, tablet, laptop or PC. Best of all, you don't need an internet connection.
What's in A Guide to Website Design?
- 51 sections covering all aspects of HTML5 and CSS3, the two languages necessary to create websites
- A color scheme that allows you to identify HTML elements, their associated attributes and CSS properties at a glance
- A unique numbering system that associates HTML elements with their attributes, and CSS properties with their values
- A hyperlinked table of contents and index, as well as hyperlinking between topics
- Every topic includes a code example and its result, showing you what the code will look like on a web page
- An explanation of responsive design, including the Flexbox and the Grid Layout Models, so that you can create web pages that look great at all sizes
- Quizzes at the end of most sections, allowing you to see if you've understood the key concepts described in that section
- A continuous exercise that starts simply and which you keep enhancing as you learn new skills.
Additional Resources
- Exercises — the guide's 31 exercises which you can download and view.
About the Author
A Guide to Website Design arose out of Marcia's desire to create websites as a "side gig", and it began as notes she kept while learning HTML and CSS. Having been a high school teacher, a technical writer, and a science and finance writer, Marcia had the skills necessary to turn those notes into a guide that would help others learn website design. Come along with Marcia on this journey of learning.
Contact Us
If you find any errors or omissions in the guide, please contact us, plus we'd love to hear how you're using the guide. You can reach us at: info@aguidetowebsitedesign.com.
Who is this guide intended for?
- College students
- High school and middle school students
- Charter school and homeschool students
- Contractors and business owners wanting to create a website for their business
- Anyone wanting to acquire new skills.
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