About
My original purpose in creating Web Lynda was two-fold: to sharpen my web design and development skills and to provide a service both to the members of the St. Luke's Book Group and to people interested in religious icons through direct links to appropriate resources on Amazon.com.
I have since added pages about the Episcopal Church, the literary and musical accomplishments of members of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, and the ministry of Anglican churches to the people of Gaza.
I hope you'll find some useful information and thought provoking reading on these pages. If you are touched by the stories about the ministry at Ahli Arab Hospital, I hope you'll contact Nancy Dinsmore to offer your support.
I offer my thanks to the people who have helped with the creation of Web Lynda and have provided links to the various resources I've found helpful.
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Books
Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference
by Eric A. Meyer. Programmer's guide and reference to using Cascading Style Sheets, CSS, to influence presentation, without the bother of adding HTML tags or sacrificing device independence. Shows how to effectively design and deploy CSS, covering all of its properties and values, including aural media styles.
Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation
by Owen Briggs. Suitable for Web designers and developers alike, this book provides an extremely approachable guide to some of the latest thinking on cascading style sheets for separating content from presentation. Filled with useful advice on coping with the difficulties of using CSS in the real world, this book fills a valuable niche with its compact format and savvy advice from the field.
Color Index: Over 1100 Color Combinations, CMYK and RGB Formulas, for Print and Web Media
by Jim Krause. Color Index provides more than one thousand color combinations and formulas to help graphic artists solve design dilemmas and create effective images for both print and the Web. From progressive colors to natural tones, Color Index makes choosing hues for any job easier. Designers will start working with color in exciting new ways and create original, eye–catching designs that pop off the page. Color Index is portable, packed with inspiration, and neatly packaged in a colorful, sturdy vinyl jacket
Constructing Accessible Web Sites
by Jim Thatcher. Accessibility is about making web sites that do not exclude people with visual, aural, or physical disabilities. This book will enable web professionals to create or retrofit accessible web sites quickly and easily. It is a practical book; the accessibility techniques outlined within are illustrated with real world examples from live sites, demonstrating that accessibility is not the enemy of great visual design.
by David Sawyer McFarland. CSS isn't just a tool to pretty up your site; it's a reliable method for handling all kinds of presentation — from fonts and colors to page layout. CSS: The Missing Manual clearly explains this powerful design language and how you can use it to build sparklingly new Web sites or refurbish old sites that are ready for an upgrade. Author David McFarland combines crystal–clear explanations, real–world examples, a dash of humor, and dozens of step–by–step tutorials to show you ways to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers.
by Douglas K. van Duyne, et al. Creating a Web site is easy. Creating a well–crafted Web site that provides a winning experience for your audience and that enhances your profitability is another matter. It takes research, skill, experience, and careful thought to build a site that maximizes retention and repeat visits. This comprehensive resource features numerous design patterns that offer proven solutions to common Web design problems. These patterns are appropriate to a wide variety of site genres and address every aspect of Web site design, from navigation and content management to e–commerce and site performance.
Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design
by Eric A. Meyer. Serves as an in–depth technical guide or reference with a hands–on approach to teach readers about problems they face in designing with CSS.
by Wendy Peck. When you design a page for print, you control the size of the paper and the placement of the elements. But on the Web, the size, resolution, fonts, and even the layout of your page can vary with the browser and the system used to view your site. In this lavishly illustrated guide, Web designer Wendy Peck shares the secrets the professionals use to resolve those problems and create eye–catching Web typography that looks as good when viewed with Explorer 4 on a vintage PC as with Netscape 7 on a flat–screen iMac.
HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide
by Elizabeth Castro. This guide explains how to code HTML and create efficient web pages through series of step–by–step instructions accompanied by screenshots. It covers text formatting, page layout, creating links, applying styles, and adding tables and forms. The fifth edition cites the stricter XHTML syntax and adds a chapter on web pages for mobile devices.
by Eric A. Meyer. This is the follow–up to Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design. The new book features ten all–new projects while keeping the same approach and tone of the original. Among the new book's projects are looks at converting a design from tables to tableless, CSS–driven dropdown menus, and the creation of a CSS Zen Garden design. If you liked Eric Meyer on CSS but wished there were more, then the new book is definitely for you.
The Non-Designer's Design Book, Second Edition
by Robin Williams. The author turns her attention to the basic principles of good design and typography. All you have to do is follow her clearly explained concepts, and you'll begin producing more sophisticated, professional, and interesting pages immediately. Humor–-infused, jargon–free prose interspersed with design exercises, quizzes, illustrations, and dozens of examples make learning a snap.
The Non-Designer's Scan and Print Book
by Sandee Choen. This is an excellent guide for beginners who want to learn the essentials of scanning images and printing professional-looking publications. The authors do an outstanding job of distilling the core elements of scanning, manipulating, and outputting images from high–tech, esoteric details. They guide the reader through the process of dealing with page–layout programs, scanning and digital cameras, prepress preparation, and either selecting desktop printing or sending electronic files to service bureaus and print shops.
by Robin Williams. The author not only defines the principles governing type but explains the logic behind them so readers can understand and see what looks best and why. Armed with this knowledge, and putting into practice the secrets Robin reveals for making type readable and artistic, readers can then go on to create beautiful, sophisticated, professional–looking pages on their computers for output as hard copy or for use on Web pages.
Robin Williams Design Workshop
by Robin Williams, John Tollett. The book describes practical graphic design principles and concepts, and how to apply them to projects. The authors explain why some designs are more likely to grab attention, and which looks are suitable for specific types of projects, such as business cards, letterhead, brochures, logos, and other advertising. Ample color design examples are sprinkled throughout the book.
Taking Your Talent to the Web: Making the Transition from Graphic Design to Web Design
by Jeffrey Zeldman. A complete guide, for print designers, art directors, homepage creators, and professionals, offering Web skills and understanding as regards creating content and designing Web pages, building on previous experience to create a new, marketable skill. Shows how the reader can change from vendor to author through this medium.
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design
by Andy Clarke and Molly E. Holzschlag. Discover how to implement highly original designs through visual demonstrations of the creative possibilities using markup and CSS. You'll learn to use a new design workflow, build prototypes that work well for designers and all team members, use grids effectively, visualize markup, and discover every phase of the transcendent design process, from working with the latest browsers to incorporating CSS3 to collaborating with team members effectively, and much more.
by Jennifer Niederst. Includes discussions of the Web environment, monitors, and browsers; a complete reference to HTML and Server Side Includes, containing browser support for every tag and attribute; chapters on creating GIF, JPEG, and PNG graphics, and designing with the Web Palette; information on multimedia and interactivity, including audio, video, Flash, Shockwave, and JavaScript; a tutorial and reference on Cascading Style Sheets; and appendices on detailing HTML tags, attributes, deprecated and proprietary tags, and CSS compatibility.