Robin Williams Web Design
Workshop (Robin Williams Design
Workshop) by Dave Rohr
Web Design Guide
Because theres more to Web design than Photoshop and HTML, Robin
Williams Web Design Workshop covers everything for the working Web
designer including how to survive dealing with clients. Although
Dreamweaver, GoLive, Photoshop, and other applications are mentioned
(Flash even gets its own chapter), the book covers the gamut of Web
design and technology issues rather than focusing on an individual
application. Each chapter is divided into sections, often no more than a
couple of pages long. The chapter on backgrounds, the area of a Web
page that seems to attract the worst design crimes, shows you how to
avoid the heartbreak of bad background design in no less than eight
sections. In many books this subject would be lucky to get eight
paragraphs; Robin Williams Web Design Workshop uses a clear two-
column layout and plenty of real-life example screen shots to get the

message across. Some pages consist only of captioned screen shots
providing a great source of visual ideas. Theres a good balance between
purely design-related issues and the technical stuff. Subjects like search
engines, embedded fonts, DHTML, and forms are given a thorough
overview, highlighting the main issues, and links to sources of more in-
depth information are often to be found at the end of the chapter. If you
like to learn by example and see yourself more as a designer than a
programmer, but want a working knowledge of current Web technologies
from a book that you can read away from your computer, this is it. --Ken
McMahon, amazon.co.uk
Personal Review: Robin Williams Web Design Workshop (Robin
Williams Design Workshop) by Dave Rohr
Several years ago I met with the main designer at company that created
the web pages for several pharmaceutical distributors in Canada. At the
time, I was well versed in creating web pages using several of the
professional programs including Dreamweaver, as well as writing code.
The designer, however, said that they did all of their designing in
Photoshop and then used a slicing technique in ImageReady before
editing the site in Dreamweaver. I hate to admit it, but I had never heard of
creating web pages that way, so I went home and began looking through
all of my web designing books to see if I could find a description of the
technique. Yes, I found it in this book.
I don't want to give the impression that this book is all about Photoshop, it
clearly isn't. But, at least for me, the Photoshop information has been
extremely useful! Though I do not design the majority of my sites using
Photoshop, there are some that I could not have created as easily with out
it. I have not used other applications that supposedly are similar to
Photoshop/ImageReady, so I can't say if they can or can not do the things
that Photoshop/ImageReady can.
Nevertheless, since the time I opened this book and took a real look, I
have used this book more than any other web books on my shelf.
Sometimes it is to simply look at the pictures to spark a new idea,
sometimes it is to review a specific designing technique.
Honestly I do not think Robin can write a bad book.
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