Download or read book Designing Web Sites that Work written by Tom Brinck and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2002 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every stage in the design of a new web site is an opportunity to meet or miss deadlines and budgetary goals. Every stage is an opportunity to boost or undercut the site's usability. This book tells you how to design usable web sites in a systematic process applicable to almost any business need. You get practical advice on managing the project and incorporating usability principles from the project's inception. This systematic usability process for web design has been developed by the authors and proven again and again in their own successful businesses. A beacon in a sea of web design titles, this book treats web site usability as a preeminent, practical, and realizable business goal, not a buzzword or abstraction. The book is written for web designers and web project managers seeking a balance between usability goals and business concerns. * Examines the entire spectrum of usability issues, including architecture, navigation, graphical presentation, and page structure. * Explains clearly the steps relevant to incorporating usability into every stage of the web development process, from requirements to tasks analysis, prototyping and mockups, to user testing, revision, and even postlaunch evaluations. * Includes forms, checklists, and practical techniques that you can easily incorporate into your own projects at http://www.mkp.com/uew/.
Download or read book Designing for the Social Web written by Joshua Porter and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what type of web site or application you’re building, social interaction among the people who use it will be key to its success. They will talk about it, invite their friends, complain, sing its high praises, and dissect it in countless ways. With the right design strategy you can use this social interaction to get people signing up, coming back regularly, and bringing others into the fold. With tons of examples from real-world interfaces and a touch of the underlying social psychology theory, Joshua Porter shows you how to design your next great social web application. Inside, you’ll discover: • The real reasons why people participate online and the psychology behind them • The Usage Lifecycle—or how people use your web application over time • How to get people past that trickiest of hurdles: sign-up • What to do when you’ve launched a web application and nobody is using it • How to analyze the effectiveness of your application screens and flows • How to grow your social web application from zero users to 1000—and beyond Designing for the social web is about much more than adding features. It’s about embracing the social interaction of the people who make you successful—and then designing smartly to encourage it.
Download or read book Designing Web Sites that Sell written by Shayne Bowman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you take on an e-commerce site, you're tackling the most complex Web design challenge of all, one that involves finding the right mix of aesthetics, brand identity, and interactivity--which you then have to fit into a technical tangle of database, customer service, and fulfillment systems. Designing Web Sites That Sell recognizes that good design is more than just a pretty face; it persuades visitors to act--to look, buy, and come back for more. Written by designers for designers, it's a results-oriented guide to building a profitable e-commerce site without sacrificing design and style. Recent headlines aside, people haven't stopped buying from online stores--just from poorly conceived ones. Designing Web Sites That Sell takes you on a real-world tour of what goes into building and managing a successful e-commerce site, using case studies of thriving examples to illustrate the principles in the book. Author's Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis stop to go behind the scenes each step of the way, sharing a wealth of information you won't find anywhere else: Savvy tips on working with clients to establish a visual style that fits their brand The five critical principles of good commerce design How to build a site that's easy to update Site testing and revising guidelines How to create content that works for cell phones, PDAs, and other wireless devices
Download or read book How to Design Websites written by Alan Pipes and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are books on the nuts and bolts of web design and there are books about website aesthetics, showcasing examples of good design. How to Design Websites contains the essentials of both, addressing the skillsets required to produce websites that are functional and elegant but from a graphic designer s perspective. It demonstrates that you can design a working website in minutes without the need for expensive programs. Chapters include Code, Layout, Text and Typography, and Images and Colour Schemes. Useful tips and tricks panels are included, as well as step-by-step projects such as how to produce a portfolio site that will be of interest to design students and to graduates of all disciplines. Inspirational Trailblazer case studies showcase the best of contemporary designers and their work. Blogs, Facebook, Flickr and HTML5, and new ways of using the web, such as mobile phones and netbooks, are also discussed.
Download or read book Forms that Work written by Caroline Jarrett and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability clearly explains exactly how to design great forms for the web. The book provides proven and practical advice that will help you avoid pitfalls, and produce forms that are aesthetically pleasing, efficient and cost-effective. It features invaluable design methods, tips, and tricks to help ensure accurate data and satisfied customers. It includes dozens of examples - from nitty-gritty details (label alignment, mandatory fields) to visual designs (creating good grids, use of color). This book isn’t just about colons and choosing the right widgets. It’s about the whole process of making good forms, which has a lot more to do with making sure you’re asking the right questions in a way that your users can answer than it does with whether you use a drop-down list or radio buttons. In an easy-to-read format with lots of examples, the authors present their three-layer model - relationship, conversation, appearance. You need all three for a successful form - a form that looks good, flows well, asks the right questions in the right way, and, most important of all, gets people to fill it out. Liberally illustrated with full-color examples, this book guides readers on how to define requirements, how to write questions that users will understand and want to answer, and how to deal with instructions, progress indicators and errors. This book is essential reading for HCI professionals, web designers, software developers, user interface designers, HCI academics and students, market research professionals, and financial professionals. *Provides proven and practical advice that will help you avoid pitfalls, and produce forms that are aesthetically pleasing, efficient and cost-effective. *Features invaluable design methods, tips, and tricks to help ensure accurate data and satisfied customers. *Includes dozens of examples -- from nitty-gritty details (label alignment, mandatory fields) to visual designs (creating good grids, use of color). *Foreword by Steve Krug, author of the best selling Don't Make Me Think!
Download or read book Make Your Small Business Website Work written by John Heartfield and published by Rockport Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Learn "how to build an integrate your website into your business- Advice and tips for what works online and how to get to most out it- Geared toward Web designers and small business owners and employees - Features extensive information on how to home in on the core message and construct effective homepages, how small business sites differ from others, and how to create navigation systems that don't frustrate
Download or read book Making Your Website Work written by Gill Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a shortcut to making your website work Want to learn how to drive more business through your website without taking an expensive course or reading a pile of books? "Making Your Website Work" helps you understand what makes a great website through practical tips you can apply to your website and get new clients and sales today. It doesn't teach you all the copywriting formulas, make you learn design rules by heart or generally talk a lot about things in theory. Instead, it describes real website problems that freelancers, digital agencies, ecommerce shops and SaaS companies face - the same problems you have with your website - and shows you how to fix them through practical tips. Among other things, you'll learn: How to spot (and fix) vague and self-centered copy How to sound trustworthy even without testimonials How to structure your homepage to make your message clear Why you should delete your Testimonials and FAQ pages Where to place call-to-action buttons to get more people to click What design mistakes get in the way of your message Who is this book for? This book is for you if you're: A business owner who takes care of their website themselves. You'll learn how to write better copy and how to make sure that your design doesn't kill your message. A copywriter who wants to sharpen their skill and also learn how to prevent designers from murdering their copy later on. You'll learn to spot bad design decisions and discover powerful arguments to use in conversations with your clients and their designers. A web designer who wants to design not only pretty websites but also websites that convert. A business owner who is planning to hire someone to create their website for them. You'll learn how to spot ineffective copy and sloppy design to make sure that the pretty website you're paying for will also convert.
Download or read book The Principles of Beautiful Web Design written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Designing Web and Mobile Graphics written by Christopher Schmitt and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphics are key to the user experience of online content, especially now that users are accessing that content on a multitude of devices: smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. This book provides foundational methodology for optimal use of graphics that begins with HTML and CSS, and delves into the worlds of typography, color, transparency, accessibility, imagery, and layout for optimal delivery on all the different devices people use today. It serves beginners and intermediate web builders alike with a complete foundation needed to create successful illustrative and navigational imagery for web and mobile. Coverage includes: lessons on typography, icons, color, and images the latest information on HTML5, CSS3, and other modern technologies in-depth exploration of image formats: GIF, PNG, JPEG, and SVG ways to employ adaptive strategies for responsive web design
Download or read book Web Design in a Nutshell written by Jennifer Niederst Robbins and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Completely revised for standards compliance, including CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0"--Cover.
Download or read book Designing Web Usability written by Jakob Nielsen and published by New Riders Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to creating user-friendly web sites that provides information on how companies can ensure their web sites are easy to locate and navigate.
Download or read book Running a Web Design Business from Home written by Rob Cubbon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and authoritative guide to setting up a home business designing and developing websites. Available in both Kindle & paperback versions. You can run your own web design business from home - all you need is a computer and an internet connection. Working for a design company? Freelancing? Under-utilised, unappreciated or uninspired? This could be the book for you. Would you like to build websites for clients directly instead of going through middlemen? Would you like to work when you'd like, on what you'd like, and with whom you'd like? This could be the book for you. This book explains how to set up your business from home - the hardware and software you'll need. How to get clients - long term, quality clients that will recommend you and give you ongoing work. How to run web design projects. And how to diversify your business going forward. This is not a "get rich quick" book. You are encouraged to start in your spare time and slowly but surely build up your long-term professional contacts and online authority. This will provide you with a solid base for whatever you want to achieve with your online business in the future.
Download or read book Head First Web Design written by Ethan Watrall and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at ways to create an attractive and user-friendly Web site, covering such topics as customer requirements, storyboards, HTML, and CSS.
Download or read book Convert written by Ben Hunt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solve your traffic troubles and turn browsers into buyers When web design expert Ben Hunt set out to quantify the difference between an ordinary web site and a great one, he expected to find the key in design simplicity. But when his team more than doubled the conversion rates for a wide range of sites, they identified simple yet powerful solutions involving design, copy, appropriate analysis, classic optimization techniques, and targeted testing. You'll find the fixes easy to implement, and they're all right here. Understand the essentials - your market, your proposition, and your delivery. Create a site that is seen by the right people, provides a compelling experience, and generates the desired action. Learn how to use testing to improve your site's conversion rate. Discover the holistic nature of web site optimization and why multiplicity matters. Examine dozens of simple techniques for building traffic, engaging your audience, and crafting effective calls to action. Combine creativity with analysis for the best possible results. Ben Hunt is Principal Consultant for Scratchmedia Ltd. He operates webdesignfromscratch.com, which provides tutorials and advice to over 120,000 web developers each month. Ben has been designing, coding, and producing web sites for clients worldwide for more than 15 years, and is considered a leader in the web usability industry. Forewords by Ken McCarthy, founder of the System Seminar, and Drayton Bird, Drayton Bird Associates.
Download or read book Learning Web Design written by Jennifer Robbins and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You’ll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices. Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various techniques and short quizzes to make sure you understand key concepts. This thoroughly revised edition is ideal for students and professionals of all backgrounds and skill levels. It is simple and clear enough for beginners, yet thorough enough to be a useful reference for experienced developers keeping their skills up to date. Build HTML pages with text, links, images, tables, and forms Use style sheets (CSS) for colors, backgrounds, formatting text, page layout, and even simple animation effects Learn how JavaScript works and why the language is so important in web design Create and optimize web images so they’ll download as quickly as possible NEW! Use CSS Flexbox and Grid for sophisticated and flexible page layout NEW! Learn the ins and outs of Responsive Web Design to make web pages look great on all devices NEW! Become familiar with the command line, Git, and other tools in the modern web developer’s toolkit NEW! Get to know the super-powers of SVG graphics
Download or read book Web Site Design is Communication Design written by Thea M. van der Geest and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Web Site Design is Communication Design is written for practitioners, trainers, and students of Communication, Business, Information Science and Media Design. This book is based on a series of case studies of web-site design processes in smaller and larger organizations, including Amazon and Microsoft. It offers a well-researched, reflective and thorough analysis of the activities undertaken, in combination with practical, real-life experiences of web-site designers and producers. It pays attention to the often complicated organizational context that web designers and producers have to work in, while they serve both bosses and target groups to their best intents. The importance of careful evaluation is stressed throughout the book and in the concluding checklists, which guide the practitioner through the design process, from initial idea through site maintenance and re-design.
Download or read book Designing Websites For Every Audience written by Ilise Benun and published by Adams Media Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent resource for all emerging and established Web designers, this book provides detailed analysis about what works and what doesn't when it comes to usability. More than 20 examples of well-known Web sites are profiled to illustrate good and bad design and functionality, outlining clear guidelines for meeting the end user's needs.
