Laura Lemay's Web Workshop: Designing With Stylesheets, Tables, and Frames

By Molly E. Holzschlag, Molley E. Holzschlag, Laura Lemay

For experienced Web developers, this text teaches the basic of stylesheets, tables and frames and shows how to put to practical use in a wide variety of everyday Web design situations. The CD contains... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575212498
• ISBN13: 9781575212494
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 607 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

A book with a wild growth of sticky tabs sprouting from it

I keep this book handy at all times. I learned how to construct tables and frames, just from this book alone. The methodology is very conducive to learning. You start with the outside of your code, and work inward. It is a great way to learn, because you are literally building your "code" and can see it take shape. This is essential when learning tables, because you need to be able to envision your whole table, and know what the parameters are going to be, before you start building.The chapter on frames is very easy to understand, and once you work through it, you will have the concept down pat. One of the more tricky aspects for novices learning frames is targeting - and Lemay explains this well. The CD is somwhat lame, but you really do not need it anyhow, as the book is thorough enough as it is.

I loved this book - learned an awful lot very quickly.

I am an experienced technical writer (10 years of software documentation) creating my first web page. I needed to learn tables and frames quickly. After patiently following the instructions (from Chapter 1 on), and manually entering the code from the samples provided in this book, I have learned enough html to do a page from scratch, and can implement tables and frames. In fact, I re-designed my web page twice-first using tables, then frames. It's not a perfect book... I think I found all the typos in the code... but, searching for the errors reinforced my debugging skills. And nothing takes away the thrill of viewing the page and having everything click into place. Instant gratification!All I can say to those who didn't like this book, is their learning styles must be different from mine. For me, it worked. And, I think manually entering the code (except for cheating on the Greeked text) did a lot to reinforce the concepts. This is a hands-on project... I am not a programmer, although I have had some programming classes. I certainly couldn't have grasped the elements by speed reading through the code. And, the graphics helped re-assure me I had everything in the right place.This is my second Lemay book, and I can assure you I will be checking out the other titles.

Very informative to say the least.

As an aspiring web site designer I find this book to be a great resource in my future developement.It cuts through all the technical mumbo jumbo thatcan be quite confusing to the novice. It seems that the people who gave bad reviews on this bookshould have read an expert level book. They should have looked at the scale on the back cover and noticed that this book was for the casual to advanced and not expert. I have not finished the book yet and feel that I have all ready gotten my money's worth.

A must for anyone interested in using these design elements.

Tables, style sheets, and frames are sometimes difficult to master, especially in the ever-changing environment of the WEB. Laura Lemay has again found an expert in this field, Molly Holzschlag, and together they begin to unravel the mysteries of these elements. Molly's expert descriptions and Laura's witty commentary draws the reader in and makes a "dry" topic interesting. Their presentation style, use of examples, Q & A sessions, as well as the companion CD quickly get the reader involved and using these exciting and valuable design elements. This book, although written for an intermediate level, is probably written for an intermediate-advanced level, due to some assumptions made by the authors.

Most Excellent!

Style Sheets, Tables, and Frames is written in a easy to understand format and provides wonderful visuals. Once again Molly Holzchag provides us with valuable information towards good web design. Congratulations Molly on a job well done, I will be highly recommending your book