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Web
Design in a Nutshell
Jennifer Niederst discusses everything a web designer needs, from basic
principles and HTML to designing for multiple browsers, cascading style
sheets,
and XML. For a working web designer this book will be an invaluable quick
reference, and it is written well enough that someone just starting out
on the web could also use it. Highly Recommended by Tech-Writer.net
Practical
Information Architecture: A Hands-On Approach to Structuring Successful
Websites
A step-by-step guide to creating Web sites with a good underlying structure
that can communicate the ideas, services and goals of the owner. Shows
how to incorporate features for a more pleasurable user experience, how
to define menus that users can understand, and how to understand the
impact of wireless technologies. Highly Recommended by Tech-Writer.net
Information
Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web
Sites
Shows you how to blend aesthetics and mechanics for distinctive, cohesive
web sites that work. Most books on web development concentrate on either
the graphics or the technical issues of a site. This book focuses on
the framework that holds the two together. Highly Recommended by Tech-Writer.net
Information
Architecture: Blueprints for the Web
Introduces the core concepts of information architecture: organizing
web site content so that it can be found, designing web site interaction
so that it's pleasant to use, and creating an interface that is easy
to understand. Highly Recommended by Tech-Writer.net
Learning
Web Design : A Beginner's Guide to HTML, Graphics,
and Beyond
A guide for beginners to the art of learning Web design. Includes tips
on what to do and what not to do, with a tutorial on building usable
Web sites that covers information design, interface design, and navigation
systems. Also covers HTML basics, images, and the use of software to
enhance Web pages.
Content
Management Bible
Provides everything readers need to know to build and manage robust content
management systems for eBusiness. Written by a leading content management
consultant.
Blogging:
Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content
Turn your home page into a microportal with fresh content that will keep
readers coming back. The first hands-on book on building blogs, this
is an excellent tutorial for new bloggers, and includes many advanced
techniques for veteran bloggers. Simply put, web logging, known as blogging,
is an easy way of updating a web page via a browser without the hassle
of launching an FTP client or HTML editor.
Content
Management for Dynamic Web Delivery
Written for information-development managers who want to move their departments
into the 21st century. Discusses establishing a content strategy to determine
what content your users need, in which media it should be delivered,
and what types of content should be singled out for sales and marketing,
customer support, training, and reference.
Developing
Online Content: The Principles of Writing and
Editing for the Web
An all-in-one resource on writing, organizing, and delivering Web content
After nearly a decade of experimentation, Web professionals now know
that bells and whistles alone do not make a successful Web site. More
than anything, strong and seamlessly integrated content attracts customers
and keeps them coming back.
Hot
Text: Web Writing that Works
Attention, Web writers! This book will show you how to craft prose that
grabs your guests' attention, changes their attitudes, and convinces
them to act. You'll learn how to make your style fast, tight, and scannable.
You'll cook up links that people love to click, menus that mean something,
and pages of text that search engines rank high.
Principles
of Web Design
This textbook teaches Web design skills within a framework of information
architecture, rhetoric, and hypertext theory. The book leads students
through the design process and offers a great deal of practical, mainstream
design guidance. But in contrast to many trade books, students learn
a coherent set of principles that help them reason about each new design
challenge they face.
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