CSS Web Site Design: Includes Exercise Files and Demo Movies [With CDROM]

Sarah Horton, Patrick J. Lynch

Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites

Consistently praised in earlier editions as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide, now in its Third Edition, continues its tradition of emphasis on fundamentals. Focusing on the needs of web site designers in corporations, government, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions, the book explains established design principles and how they apply in web design projects in which information design, interface design, and efficient search and navigation are of primary concern. New in this edition: --a full chapter devoted to Universal Usability --guidelines and techniques for creating universally usable designs --a full chapter on Information Architecture and how best to promote its robust development --information on Search Engine Optimization and the designs that improve it --techniques for using Cascading Style Sheets for layouts and typographic design --185 illustrations, all in full color

Janice Redish

Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content That Works

Whether on the job or at home, Web users want to grab information and use it quickly. They go to the Web to get answers to questions, complete tasks, or to gather information, reading only what they need. This book helps content managers and technical writers successfully plan, organize, compose, design, and test Web content.

Barbara van Schewick

Internet Architecture and Innovation

Today -- following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment -- the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture -- a consequence of technical choices regarding the Internet's inner structure that were made early in its history.The Internet's original architecture was based on four design principles: modularity, layering, and two versions of the celebrated but often misunderstood end-to-end arguments. But today, the Internet's architecture is changing in ways that deviate from the Internet's original design principles, removing the features that have fostered innovation and threatening the Internet's ability to spur economic growth, to improve democratic discourse, and to provide a decentralized environment for social and cultural interaction in which anyone can participate. If no one intervenes, network providers' interests will drive networks further away from the original design principles. If the ...