1 Hour Web Site: 120 Professional Templates and Skins (Bible)

By Michael Utvich

Build a high-profile Web presence in an hour A high-quality Web site for your business or organization is easily within your grasp using the cutting-edge templates in this practical book. It's all here: 40 professionally designed templates on a CD, plus80 variations--120 designs in all created just for this book--and the step-by-step instructions you need to choose one and customize it using your own content. Use WordPad or any basic text editor on your PC or Mac--that's all you need. The templates also work with any Web application such as Dreamweaver(r)or FrontPage(r). From simple one-pagers to complex business Web sites to killer blog pages, this book gets you live in one hour, without knowing HTML, JavaScript, or programming. Select the right template for your Web presence--business, professional services, e-commerce, retail, blog site, and more. Learn the basics of obtaining a URL, hosting a site, and going live. Add your own content quickly and easily. Go live right away with a free month of hosting from nexcess.net (with one-year contract). Add your own design elements with a free trial copy of Photoshop(r) Elements on CD. On the CD-ROM you'll find the working Web files for 120 Web templates, some including a Flash movie component. The CD also includes Photoshop Elements tryout version. System Requirements: Please see the CD-ROM appendix for details and complete system requirements.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471933384
• ISBN13: 9780471933380
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 1.2" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Templates to create HTML website

I used the templates in this book and on their CD to create my 3 websites. I have some knowledge of HTML and luckily had my husband who is a programmer here to help when I got stuck. The templates are modifiable enough to where if you know HTML rules, you're able to make your website what you want and not look entirely like everyone else's website made from their templates. I previously had the three websites, but created under FrontPage 2000 and when they stopped working properly I was forced to learn another means of creating my websites. I hate programming so the templates in this book/CD were a blessing. Those without HTML experience can follow their step-by-step instructions for replacing code and their directions are very clear.

1 Hour web site

Great! After reading the easy instructions, I was able to set up a web site in a very short time. The templates and skins are great.

This book worked for me!

My husband and I used this book to create a web site for our new business. And it really works! There is a great selection of home page and sub page template styles (on the enclosed disk) to match your kind of business. There are also templates for personal and family web sites. I must say that it took more than 1 hour. But you have to consider your content - that takes time to create. Plus, once you get inside the web page templates you may be tempted, as we were, to cut and paste button links. One thing leads to another... To get the web site done, you only need to read the first three chapters plus the chapter that relates to your template. There are areas for improvement - mostly in the area of adding things to your web site. But then, this is a get-it-done-fast book. Overall, the book is astonishingly good value. Jane Your Story Here Video Biography Orange County

Easy to Use Web Templates

Creating a good web site requires both computer/technical and graphic design/artistic skills. If you have the technical background but are lacking in artistic talent, then templates will provide the "design" elements you are lacking. The book advertises 120 templates on the accompanying CD, but that is really 40 different templates, each one provided in 3 color schemes for you to choose from. They provide a "home" page and 1 or more "subpage" styles for each template. There is a brief, simple explanation at the beginning of the book about types of designs and which type to use for what purpose. The designs are adequate for informational sites; they are not sufficient if you need interactive forms, shopping carts, flash, animation etc. The other advantage of using a template is you do not have to learn any other software. The book explains how to open the files in an editor like Notepad, and simply find/replace their content with your content. The files have been set up with easy-to-identify "tokens" to find and replace. This saved me a lot of time because I didn't want to learn any other software. (Of course you can always open these files in your favorite program and edit them that way) However, it is unlikely that any of the provided templates will suit your needs exactly - so it helps if you know enough html to be able to modify the html code - it will help to understand tables and cascading style sheets. If you use their templates "as is" and just replace content "tokens", you could likely create a home page in an hour. If you have sufficient computer expertise and just need to get a simple, well designed web site up quickly, this book could be the answer. However, you must be flexible enough to either use one of the templates "as is" or modify the html code to suit your needs. So read the table of contents and check out the template categories, and make sure your website falls within at least one of those categories. I was able to find a template that was close to my needs, and edit the html to modify it enough to suit my purpose. Since the template was created by a graphic designer, the site looks "professional". So this book suited my needs exactly.

highly recommend

I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to create their own site. It's extremely readable and easy to follow for a beginner.