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

John Tollett, Robin Williams

The Non-Designer's Web Book: An Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site

If you think web design is beyond your reach, or if you want your existing web site to look more professional, this thoroughly updated classic is the place to turn In these pages, best-selling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett share the creative ideas, useful techniques, and basic design principles that are essential to great Web design-all in the context of the most current technology, software, and standards. Throughout, the authors' aim is to inspire you and spark your creativity rather than sedate you with pages and pages of code. To that end, you'll find loads of real-world examples, interesting illustrations, and the simple instructions you need to implement the techniques and concepts described in these pages.

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

Thomas Erl

SOA: Principles of Service Design

This book could be described as an encyclopedia of service design Erl leaves nothing to chance. Indispensable. Steve Birkel, Chief IT Technical Architect, Intel Corp. An absolute pleasure to read the best SOA book I ve read. A book I would recommend to all of my colleagues; it provides much insight to the topics often overlooked by most books in this genre the visuals were fantastic. Brandon Bohling, SOA Architecture and Strategy, Intel Corporation This book is a milestone in SOA literature. For the first time we are provided with a practical guide on defining service characteristics and service design principles for SOA from a vendor-agnostic viewpoint. It s a great reference for SOA discovery, adoptions, and implementation projects. Canyang Kevin Liu, Principal Enterprise Architect, SAP Americas, Inc. I liked this book. It contains extremely important material for those who need to design services. Farzin Yashar, IBM SOA Advanced Technologies This book does a great job laying out benefits, key ideas and design principles behind successfully adopting service-oriented computing. At the same time, the book openly addresses challenges, risks and trade-offs that are ...