Web Design For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

Part IV. Producing the Final Web Site

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At the end of the day, when all the designers go home for their well-deserved rest, the HTML and programmer folks come in — lattes in hand — and begin final assembly of the Web site. Although Web site design is a team activity, everyone on the team must know a little bit about everyone else's job in order to make the whole process go smoothly. As a Web designer, this means you must know enough about how HTML, CSS, and programming languages work so you can maximize their strengths.

For example, if you design a graphically heavy interface with a weird, slanted layout, the HTML people will have a hard time implementing the design and making it look the way you intend. So, Chapter 13 steps you through what you can do with basic HTML. Chapter 14 dives a little deeper and explores how to push HTML's design capabilities and also introduces you to CSS, which gives you a greater range of design flexibility and control. Finally, Chapter 15 shows you how to create Web applications by integrating programming languages and databases into your HTML.

By knowing how HTML and all these integrated technologies work, you will be in a better position to design Web pages that load fast, are easy to update, practical to build within a given time and budget, and look great.