Essential Design for Web Professionals (The Prentice Hall Essential Web Professionals Series) - Softcover

Lyons, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130321613 ISBN 13: 9780130321619

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2000

Synopsis

Using real world case studies, the reader learns how to design an entire web site.

About this title

About the Author

CHARLES J. LYONS is President and Founder of Tektrain, Inc., a leading provider of technical training. He was previously a Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies' Learning & Performance Center, responsible for the development and delivering of training in human factors and usability, Web development and HTML, rapid prototyping, and effective technical documentation development. Lyons was also responsible for developing and maintaining the Center's internal Human Factors Curriculum Web site.

From the Back Cover

• Architect and design any Web site for maximum effectiveness!
• Build an entire site, step by step using a real-world case study
• Work with practical techniques for testing usability
• Explore site accessibility, use of XML, and more
• Learn from a leading expert in information design and usability
• Endorsed by WOW (The World Organization of Web Masters).

Don't just build Web sites: architect them for maximum usability and effectiveness! In this book, leading usability and information design specialist Charles J. Lyons shows you how. Discover easy, practical ways to identify your users' requirements, translate their needs into superb content and navigation, and avoid user confusion and expensive site retrofitting. Using a hands-on case study, this book walks you through every stage: site analysis, design, and delivery. Better yet, you can recreate the case study using images and files from a fully integrated Web site that even gives you the final solution. But no peeking!

You'll master all this, and much more!

• Understanding your users' needs and requirements
• Building sites that can evolve and grow
• Defining logical, clear, easy-to-use navigation systems
• Using graphics more effectively
• Testing usability with real users
• Making your site accessible to the physically challenged
• Leveraging the power of XML in your site and Web applications

Rely on Essential Guides for ALL the Web Skills You Need! All these books share the same great format, and same dynamic Web site...so once you've used one, learning from the others is a piece of cake!

• Essential PHP for Web Professionals
• Essential ASP for Web Professionals
• Essential Flash 5 for Web Professionals
• Essential PERL 5 for Web Professionals
• Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals
• Essential CSS and DHTML for Web Programmers
• And more to come!

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0130321613
• ISBN 13: 9780130321619
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272