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Tutorials for Web Developers - Design
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Web site design is more than just some text and pretty graphics.
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Back to the User: Creating User-Focused Web Sites
New Riders Publishing
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By teaching those that create Web sites how to think like the
people who use them, Back to the User enables Web
marketers and developers to create sites that people want to, and
can successfully, use. This first installment covers the
homepage, credentials, and using space wisely.
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Back to the User: Creating User-Focused Web Sites - Part 2
New Riders Publishing
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This final installment shows you how to make sure your design is
in service to your concept and includes a bit of admonishment to
tell the truth up-front. By teaching those that create Web sites
how to think like the people who use them, Back to the
User enables Web marketers and developers to create sites
that people want to, and can successfully, use.
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Using Color on the Internet
Lee Creek
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When used properly, color can be a thing of beauty. When used
improperly, it can be reasonably repulsive. Learn the importance
of good color combinations.
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Ten Top Sites Compared
Andrew Starling
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As Web design become more of a science and less driven by
inspired guesswork, the Web's top sites are converging. Already
they share many design features. Through analysing this
convergence we can come up with a set of 'best practice'
guidelines.
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Hot Text: Web Writing that Works: Chapter 1-Part 1
New Riders Publishing
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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. This first installment looks at how to discover who
you are really talking to.
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Hot Text: Web Writing that Works: Chapter 1-Part 2
New Riders Publishing
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In this installment we look at how to customize and personalize
content, develop an attitude, and talk on the user's level.
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Hot Text: Web Writing that Works: Chapter 5-Part 1
New Riders Publishing
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This next installment discusses methods of keeping the text
short for online articles. Sections included in this excerpt
include "Save The Meaning, Cut Away The Rest" and "Delete
Marketing Fluff".
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Hot Text: Web Writing that Works: Chapter 5-Part 2
New Riders Publishing
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This last installment discusses vital but tangential or
supplemental material, moving repeating categories of information
into tables, charts, or graphs, and includes a few sites for your
critique.
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Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground
New Riders Publishing
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This book introduces the reader to new ways of styling Web sites.
Specific examples provides a wealth of techniques for the
designer who wishes to apply these approaches in their own work.
This excerpt is Chapter 4, "Lo-Fi Grunge Style".
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Designing Web Sites to be Disability Friendly
Lisa Seeman
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Over 15% of the population have a learning disability (LD). In
addition, a sizable percentage of the population is physically
challenged or has related problems. Making your page accessible
means bearing in mind that not all of the visitors to your web
site will be viewing it on a monitor and navigating with a mouse.
A clear, well-formatted site, with easy words, can make it easier
on everyone.
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Page Content: The Long and the Short of It
Lee Underwood
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Writing for the Web is different than writing for printed media.
But how different? This article discusses many of those
differences, including page layout and length, content
presentation, and how the page is viewed by the reader.
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Web Sites: Learn to Build Smart and Buy Smart
Lee Creek
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Building and buying Web sites should be a rewarding experience
for both builder and buyer. For that to happen, though, the
builder needs to make sure the buyer is getting honest value by
using professional tools and professional methods. Further,
buyers should insist on getting their money's worth.
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Design and Architecture of a Content-Rich Web Site
Alan Richmond
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Information architecture is the practice of designing the infrastructure
of a Web site, a combination of organizing a site's content into
categories and creating a navigation interface to support those
categories.
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Design and Architecture of a Content-Rich Web Site: Part 2
Alan Richmond
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Information architecture is the practice of designing the
infrastructure of a Web site. In the conclusion of this article,
Alan covers accessibility and usability, the home page as site
map, and compromising between too little and too much.
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