- Hardcover: 172 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press (10 Feb 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300076746
- ISBN-13: 978-0300076745
- Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 18.5 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,832,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 160 pages of expert instruction, authors Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton put the essence of the Yale University Centre 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, amazon.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"At last, a book on the design of Web sites with the viewer in mind... It intelligently and succinctly discusses all those topics so badly neglected by most Web sites." Donald A. Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things and The Invisible Computer "Helpful and forward-looking advice." Stephen W. Plain, Web Development Editor, Amazon.com. A top-10 choice for 1999 "This is one of the best design books that I've seen, catering specifically to information-oriented sites... The Web would be an easier world to navigate if all Web designers read this book." Deborah Lynne Wiley, Online "A style guide for the interface with real long-run value, showing us deep principles of design rather than simply fashion and technology." Edward R. Tufte "Web Style Guide is sort of an 'Elements of Style for Webmasters'... Authoritative factoids are sprinkled throughout, and ground the book in logic while elevating it above some of the brightly coloured hyperactive Web design manuals out there." J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times Circuits Section
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent short and sweet without compromising,
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This review is from: Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites (Paperback)
A very good write up on designing and laying out a website. No extra detailed complaints about how bad some websites are and just enough to get the message across without boring me to death.I am building my own amatuer website and this helped a great deal. Explaining the reason for doing something and then telling you how to go about it. I don't mean how to do it technically but being aware of the limitations of the web as a communication medium. This book is short enough so that you can whiz through it and get down to the more time consuming stuff of actually building the site. Yet detailed enough to provide the relevant information. I bought "Designing Web Usability" by Jacob Nielsen too. Sure, it looks prettier compared to the black and white of "Web Style Guide" but they say similar things with "Designing Web Usability" just being a book with more colourful examples. I would imagine most netheads would have surfed enough sites by now so that colourful examples are not strictly necessary.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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The perfect guide for the general rules on web design,
By Momu U Mumo (Portugal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites (Hardcover)
This book is great! It gives you the knowledge you need to build/design your sites. Not a deep technical coding knowledge but, mainly the ideas that surround web correct design and site organisation. As a begginer I was (and allways will be) it fitted perfectly my intention on getting clear ideas about building web sites.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Useful companion to any series web designer,
By A Customer
This review is from: Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites (Paperback)
After visiting the Yale site I had to get this book I have read it and refer to it before, during and at the end of all my web related projects. It is so comprehensive, some of those basic rules do apply to basic design, information architecture and layout
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