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

Charles Wyke-Smith

Codin' for the Web: A Designer's Guide to Developing Dynamic Web Sites

EVEN THE MOST SKILLED WEB DESIGNERS can find the complexities of creating a full-functioned Web site to be a daunting task. Here to help designers create sites that not only work, but work well and are easy to update and maintain is an easy-to-read guide to Web programming basics from best-selling author Charles Wyke-Smith. Just as architects need to understand building materials and their properties, Web designers need to understand the code that serves as the foundation of their sites. Wyke-Smith ensures they do by teaching designers that all dynamic Web sites consist of essentially three components: a browser interface, Web server middleware, and a database. The guide covers everything from Web coding concepts and principles to building sites, designing visual interfaces, developing databases, developing middleware, ensuring a good user experience (through good code!), testing and debugging, and more. Create dynamic Web sites that provide real-time responses to user inputsUnderstand the basic structures of all coding languages, such as variables, functions, conditionals, loops, and objectsUse the power of PHP to program the business rules of your siteLearn techniques for ...

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.