Build great user interfaces for your Web and multimedia applications―right now!
- The hands-on user interface workbook for every Web professional!
- Building Web hypertext systems users will love!
- Crucial user interface design principles, guidelines, and techniques
- Web multimedia: tradeoffs, requirements, and deployment
Your user interface is the #1 factor in determining the success of your Web or multimedia project! With this user-friendly, interactive workbook, you'll master every key concept and technique for building interfaces that delight users-and maximize their productivity. You'll find in-depth, hands-on coverage of content planning, information management, authoring techniques, user interface design, Web navigation, Web multimedia, multimedia databases, and much more. Coverage includes:
- Hypertext: The fundamental components and "Golden Rules" of hypertext systems
- Information Design: All leading approaches, including Information Structure, Relationship Management Methodology, and Information Mapping
- Human-Computer Interaction: Proven techniques for building outstanding user interfaces
- Web Design and Navigation: Key principles and practical solutions
- Multimedia on the Web: Requirements, tradeoffs, development, support, maintenance, multimedia databases, and more
There's no faster way for newcomers and Web professionals to master the art and science of world-class user interface development! If you're ready to build Web/multimedia applications users and clients will rave about, start right here!
This practical, hands-on learning system walks you step-by-step through every issue associated with successful Web user interface design. Start by reviewing the fundamentals of hypertext, understanding the role of document markup, and how hypertext functions on the World Wide Web. Review each leading methodology for organizing and architecting sites, including the Information Structure approach, the Relationship Management Methodology, and Information Mapping. Discover the key principles of Human-Computer Interaction, and learn how to implement them successfully, to build Web interfaces users will intuitively understand and welcome. Finally, review your options for multimedia on the Web, understand the Web's limitations as a multimedia delivery vehicle, and learn how to manage the tradeoffs to gain as many of the benefits of multimedia as possible. This book is part of Prentice Hall's Advanced Web Site Architecture Series: user-friendly, interactive workbooks with the in-depth knowledge Web professionals need to deliver advanced solutions, backed with a Web site containing sample code and exercises.