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■ Bruce Heavin
Coloring Web on Web pages are help-
Graphics ful in moving printed
discusses the material online. There
unique chal- are also useful exam-
lenge of pre- ples of how tables and
senting color frames have become
on the Web. the standard way of
aligning and positioning
items on a Web page.
Movement, sound and interactivity
are ways of differentiating Web pages
from printed pages, and Weinman, as
a former animator, discusses creating
and including all these
media formats, from
the simplest animated
GIFs and sound files
to sophisticated Quick-
Time movie clips and
Shockwave animations.
The book also includes
a thorough glossary
and explanation of the
most common HTML
tags, and each chapter
contains several URLs
(Uniform Resource
Locators) which point
to more information
about each topic.
COLOR THEORY,
color palettes, and bit
depth are further explored
in Coloring
Web Graphics. Coauthored
by Lynda
Weinman and Bruce
Heavin, a painter
and illustrator who has designed graphics
for numerous books, CD-ROMs
and Web sites, the book discusses the
unique challenge of presenting color
on the Web. For instance, have you ever
looked at a Web site on a Macintosh
and then viewed it on a PC running
Windows? Colors that were intended
to be muted on the Mac suddenly seem
bright and vibrant on the Windowsbased
PC. In some cases, colors appear
to be different altogether due to color
remapping by the operating system.
Through text and a software tutorial,
Coloring Web Graphics explains how
color is handled by different computer
Using
"browser-
safe" colors
assure that
your pages
appear the
same regard-
less of oper-
ating system
or monitor.
platforms, operating systems
and Web browsers, and offers
tips on how designers can
create Web pages that remain
consistent despite the myriad
variables that impact the appearance
of color on screen.
Heavin and Weinman also
offer tips on selecting colors
that will increase the speed of
file downloading, and discuss
the necessity of dithering and
anti-aliasing of graphics. The
book further discusses the concept
of "browser-safe" colors—
the 216 colors that are shared
by the built-in system palettes
used by the Macintosh and Windows
operating systems. Using
"browser-safe" colors assure that
your pages appear the same regardless
of operating system or monitor. However,
the use of such a limited palette
does have drawbacks when showing
photographic images on your site.
While some of the information
in Coloring Web Graphics appears in
Designing Web Graphics, Weinman
and Heavin explain in more detail how
color selection can influence the compression
and size of graphics files. The
book also offers the basics of color theory
and explains the HTML tags for
setting the colors
of backgrounds,
text and links.
While offering
printed specimens
(using CMYK inks)
to represent onscreen
graphics
(using RGB colors)
might seem paradoxical,
the book
includes a companion
CD-ROM
which contains electronic
versions of
the color swatches
printed in the book,
as well as browsersafe
color palettes
which can be loaded
into Photoshop,
Paint Shop Pro,
PhotoPaint, Freehand
and Painter.
The CD-ROM also
contains a collec-
tion of clip art for Web use, sample
HTML pages using different color
combinations, and a collection of patterns,
backgrounds, buttons and
objects that can be customized using
the electronic color swatches. A large
section of the book consists of a
sample Web page presented in different
color combinations that work
well together, and serves as a reference
when deciding on what color
combinations to employ on your site.
ACCORDING TO LYNDA WEINMAN,
one of the benefits of the Web is
that any designer can see how exist-
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