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Web Style Guide : Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites

Other Editions: Hardcover

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Editorial Reviews

The book begins the presentation of its helpful and forward-looking advice with a discussion of the overall process of defining the objectives and users of your Web site, as well as the goals you will use to measure your progress. The authors then use time-tested, traditional print concepts to clearly illustrate how to make your site interface welcoming and efficient. High-quality illustrations show how to design for overall style and professional appeal. The sections on typography and editorial style set this manual apart from many Web style guides with attention to the fine details that separate the good sites from the great.

Multimedia elements and cascading style sheets (CSS) are covered, but within the overall context of building a fine site--not with the usual hype. Media compression and delivery are addressed at a high level with concrete suggestions on formats, frame rates, and image sizes for a well-balanced approach to multimedia.

One of the great things about using this guide is that the actual site it is based on is available. You can read about a thoughtfully-written topic and then go online to see the concepts in action. Web Style Guide delivers some of the most holistic coverage of site design you'll find. -- Stephen W. Plain

J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times
Web Style Guide covers all the basic elements of creating a Web site. . . . Readers are first offered the notions of content and interface design before they are asked to contemplate the traditional eye-candy favorites of page layout, graphics and multimedia. . . . Authoritative factoids are sprinkled throughout, . . . [and] serve to ground the book in logic while elevating it above some of the brightly colored hyperactive Web design manuals out there. --This text refers to the hardcover.. read more

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