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| Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, Second Edition | 
| Authors: Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton
Creator: Louis Rosenfeld
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 21154
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.4
ISBN: 0300088981
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
EAN: 9780300088984
ASIN: 0300088981
Publication Date: March 2002
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Book Description
This essential guide for Web site designers provides practical, concise advice on creating well-designed and effective Web sites and pages. Focusing on the interface and graphic design principles that underlie the best Web site design, this book offers invaluable help on a full range of issues, from planning and organizing goals to design strategies for a site to the elements of individual page design. This second edition includes guidelines on designing for accessibility, strategies for maintaining a Web site, details on using style sheets, and much more. This book grew out of the widely used and highly praised Web site on site design created by the Center for Advanced Instructional Media at Yale University (info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/). At this site, readers will continue to find updated color illustrations and examples to complement and demonstrate points made in the book, as well as useful and current online references.
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In 160 pages of expert instruction, authors Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton put the essence of the Yale University Center for Advanced Instructional Media's wonderful online site design guide into traditional print. The book begins the presentation of its helpful and forward-looking advice with a discussion of the overall process of defining the objectives and users of your Web site, as well as the goals you will use to measure your progress. The authors then use time-tested, traditional print concepts to clearly illustrate how to make your site interface welcoming and efficient. High-quality illustrations show how to design for overall style and professional appeal. The sections on typography and editorial style set this manual apart from many Web style guides with attention to the fine details that separate the good sites from the great. Multimedia elements and cascading style sheets (CSS) are covered, but within the overall context of building a fine site--not with the usual hype. Media compression and delivery are addressed at a high level with concrete suggestions on formats, frame rates, and image sizes for a well-balanced approach to multimedia. One of the great things about using this guide is that the actual site it is based on is available. You can read about a thoughtfully-written topic and then go online to see the concepts in action. Web Style Guide delivers some of the most holistic coverage of site design you'll find. --Stephen W. Plain
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 Helpful technical guide October 22, 2007
I purchased several copies of this book to use in conjunction with a text we're using in a 400 level Internet Marketing class. The students are expected to prepare a comprehensive marketing plan for internet presence for a company. Web Style Guide has clear, uncomplicated design guidelines for planning - not necessarily execution - of web site development. It contains all the elements needed for simple or complex web site planning.
 Book doing a good job in sumaring what a website should do to work June 9, 2007
Although obviously too basic for web developers and people working on the Net day-in-day-out because of its simplification of web design, it does work as a complete sumary of what a sucessful website should have in design terms for anyone who would like to get started at a serious level. It does a pretty good job at doing precisely that and little else, but its clarity helps to simplify and put all the necessary pieces into perspective. It makes pretty good emphasis in Accesibility which I find it is a very important thing to always remember when designing for the whole WWW without leaving anyone behind. Easy and fast to read, it will give you a good bird's eye view before getting started designing your website.
Unique features to this Guide July 9, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a nice source for those of us who wonder how traditional print style guidelines apply to the web. Unlike many other books on web style which cover more of the visual aspects of putting web pages/sites together, this guide provides a solid reference on how to communicate your CONTENT to a web audience, in a format that suits the medium.
Um...I'd read another book instead March 30, 2006
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
Good information. Hard to read and presented boringly -- is that a word? Other books contain the same information. Not horrible, just not great.
 Not too helpful... June 22, 2005
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you're fairly inexperienced on the internet, and you don't know what "Classic three-column layout" means, then you should buy this book. If you do know what that means, you are probably familiar with the majority of the topics covered in this book. I did not find that the time I spent reading this was well spent because it is very basic. Don't expect too much magic to come off the pages.
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