| The IT Girl’s Guides are the antidote to blah technical references that can poison women’s enthusiasm for technology topics. Humorous expository text mixed with detailed exercises, real-world examples, relevant stories, and FAQs capitalizes on the initial attraction to draw in even casual readers.
As the first-ever woman-focused technical reference, IT Girl’s Guides incorporate the latest thinking about how women learn. The emphasis on authentic author voice invites empathy and encourages readers to see themselves in the text. Such self-identification is reinforced and enhanced by the presentation of other women’s stories, challenges, and successes through engaging chapter elements and representations of real women. This abundance of personality provides multiple entry points for readers and addresses the audience’s various approaches to learning. Like the women it aims to serve, the IT Girl’s Guides series multitasks through the subject matter, covers lots of ground, and avoids the pitfall of boredom. In three distinct parts, The It Girl's Guide to Becoming a Web Goddess helps readers Learn the technology skills like CSS and HTML needed to create a website and is organized by type of site (family, small business, personal, medium business), Live with the technology (maintain the site, add features such as shopping cart functionality, add photos and using web analytics tools to analyze traffic and other site stats), and Love their new hobby: creating their own branded Web site, personalizing the site, and making the site really sing with eye-caching design.
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