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Web Site Design
Brian Austin, Web Page Design, Warwickshire: Computer Step, second edition, 2000, pp.192, ISBN 1840780398.
Beginner's manual which explains the basic principles without being too technical. Sound advice, fully illustrated, but with no HTML coding. Covers structure, navigation, links, graphics, colour, audio, plug-ins, and even JavaScripts. [Get the coding details elsewhere.]
Full review HERE
Steve Callihan, Learn HTML in a Weekend, Rocklin, CA: Prima
Publishing, 1999, pp. 409, ISBN 0761518002
Beginner's tutorial manual which explains the basic principles in easy stages. Well illustrated - and you can take it at your own pace. Covers text, graphics, tables, frames, and makes everything clear by showing the code required to produce the effects you want.
Full review HERE
Curt Cloninger, Fresh Styles for Web Designers, Indianapolis IN: New Riders, 2001, pp. 211, ISBN 0735710740
Well illustrated guide to new design techniques. Each chapter describes the features of one style. It then analyses examples, with well-produced screenshots of sites which are often private and experimental. Then he tells you how to achieve these effects. It's a very good formula - no matter what you think of the sites.
Full review HERE
Robert Eckstein, XML Pocket Reference, Sebastopol (CA): O'Reilly, 1999, pp.107, ISBN 1565927095.
Brief introduction and (literally) pocket-sized reference to new coding standard which permits customised page markup. Offers a quick overview of XML, as well as some sample applications that allow you to get started in coding. The code itself is very similar to HTML, but less forgiving of any mistakes.
Full review HERE
Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis, Web Pages That Suck, San Francisco (CA): Sybex International, 1998, pp.384, ISBN 078212187X.
Web page design tutorials which use the analysis of bad design examples to teach good principles. Ignore the very cheesy artwork: their advice is sound. This is a print version of very successful web site. Best-seller, lavishly illustrated - and quite amusing.
Full review HERE
Jennifer Fleming, Web Navigation: Designing the User
Experience, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1998, pp.253,
ISBN 1565923510.
This is an excellent guide to the principles of web design and navigation. Focuses on information architecture plus site usability effectiveness rather than HTML coding. Top rate advice from an expert. Best-seller - highly recommended.
Full review HERE
Ian S. Graham, XHTML 1.0 - Language and Design Sourcebook: The Next Generation HTML, London/New York John Wiley, 2000, pp.692, ISBN 0471374857
XHTML opens up new possibilities if you want to make your Web pages available on a variety of platforms and devices. This covers all the basics of text presentation, hypertext links, graphics, then the spacing and layout using style sheets. All techniques are illustrated by both screen shots and code.
Full review HERE
Elliotte Rusty Harold & W. Scott Means, XML in a Nutshell,
Sebastopol CA, O'Reilly, 2001, pp.480, ISBN 0596000588.
Encyclopedic manual to all aspects of the new markup language in which tags can be created by the user to suit the purpose.Covers all the basics of the XML standard, plus explanation of character sets, document type definition (DTD) creation, Extensible Stylesheet Transformation (XSLT) and the document object model (DOM). Thorough and worthy.
Full review HERE
Steven Holzner, Inside XML, Indianapolis (IN): New Riders, 2001, pp.1102, ISBN 0735710201
Comprehensive introduction to XML - as well as its associated technologies of Style Sheets and JavaScripts. Particularly good on using XHTML as a transitional application of XML. Full details of all the latest standards and free software provided. Also includes tutorials on using Java in conjunction with XML.
Full review HERE
Peter Kent, Poor Richard's Web Site: Geek-free,
Commonsense Advice on Building a Low Cost Web Site,
Colorado: Top Floor, pp.424, ISBN
0966103289.
Best-selling guide to building and running a low cost web site. Written for beginners, and packed with good advice, short-cuts, and sources of free information, services, and software. This book started a publishing empire. Follow his advice and you will not go wrong.
Full review HERE
Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Indianapolis (IN): New Riders, 2000, pp.195, ISBN 0789723107
Web design strategies and witty advice on usability. Tips on the design of home pages -
using and organising the screen to maximise the information conveyed by visual
messages. Arguments are illustrated with analyses and makeovers of well known sites.
Full review HERE
Laura Lemay, Teach yourself Web Publishing with
HTML 4 in 21 Days, Sams, 1998, pp.795, ISBN
0672313456.
Best-selling guide, famous for the clarity of its explanations. Full of good examples and sound advice. Covers basics, plus imagemaps, cascading style sheets, and dynamic HTML. Suggestions illustrated by screenshots plus the relevant code. Particularly good for beginners. Strongly recommended.
Full review HERE
Hakon Lie and Bert Bos, Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, New York/London: Addison-Wesley, (second edition) 1999, pp.432, ISBN 0201596253.
Introduction and full explanation of style sheets, written by the guys who invented them. Stiff prose, but very thorough. Covers fonts, spacing, layers, colours, cascading and inheritance. Some excellent full-colour examples show what CSS can do in the right hands.
Full review HERE
Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide,
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, ISBN 0300076754
Excellent web site design guide written originally for medical students at Yale. No HTML coding: concentrates instead on design principles and navigation. Covers page design, typography, information chunking, frames, style sheets, editorial style, animation, audio, and compression. [The Web site is worth a visit too.]
Full review HERE
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