books about: website

books about: website

books:

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Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website

Barrie M. North

Prentice Hall PTR, 2007

A holistic approach
The focus of this book is on creating a successful website using Joomla, rather than explaining every setting and feature of Joomla itself. Whilst it does comprehensively cover many of Joomla's useful features, leading the novice confidently from basic principles to ...

The Web Designer's Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design
Patrick Mcneil

How, 2008

Inspiring Web Design at a Glance The Web Designer?s Idea Book includes more than 700 websites arranged thematically, so you can find inspiration for layout, color, style and more. Author Patrick McNeil has cataloged more than 20,000 sites on his website, and showcased in this book are the very best examples. Sites are organized by color, design ...

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

Steve Krug

New Riders Press, 2005

Buy this, then get busy testing your site!
I can think of very few sites that couldn't be improved by applying the principles in this book. It does what "Web Sites That Suck" attempts to do, but instead of giving examples of horrible web sites that are most likely beyond fixing, it uses examples of pretty ...

Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual

Matthew MacDonald

Pogue Press, 2005

Absolutely great book!
I have been searching for a good, fairly insightful, starter book on what to do to set up a website, that wasn't too advanced or way to boring. This is it! The author knows his stuff, brings it into the learning forum in such a way that you are excited to read the ...

Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions

Tim Ash

Sybex, 2008

Design websites for visitors & not for yourself...
Tim Ash provides an exhaustive study of design & testing so you can learn how to compel your websites' visitors to take action. This book inspired a paradigm shift in my web design philosophy. Before I really had no philosophy - only designs. Now I am in the process of ...

Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6

David Mercer

Packt Publishing, 2008

Drupal 6, David Mercer, Packt
This is a good book to read even if you read Drupal 5 by the same author/publisher. It is a beginning level book but covers the new features nicely. This book assumes you do not know HTML or PHP. The illustrations of the dialog screens are very helpful. There is a ...

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

Jason Beaird

SitePoint, 2007

Terrific Book
Beautiful Web Design gives the user an insight look into what to think about when laying out your web site. Typography, color theory, composition and more all come into play. The author of this book is great!

How to Use the Internet to Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Website with Little or No Money

Bruce C. Brown

Atlantic Publishing Company, 2006

Winner of Multiple Book Awards!
How to Use the Internet to Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Web Site -- With Little or No Money is the winner of multiple book awards: The National 2007 Indie Excellence Book Awards Business Finalist: How to Use the Internet to Advertise, Promote and ...

Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design

Jenifer Tidwell

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

More Practical Concepts, Less Psychology
While I don't own a physical copy of this book, I had used an electronic form of it in the course of my studies. I will first forewarn those who are interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that this text does not heavily focus on the science of Psychological ...

Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer

Bryan Eisenberg, John Quarto-vonTivadar

Sybex, 2008

An exceptionally good piece of creative/practical work about Online Testing
When I first saw that this book was coming to light I had mixed feelings. On one hand, I was hunger for more testing knowledge, both theoretical and practical. On the other hand, I am always apprehensive when books talk about tools. However, the book impressed me as a ...

Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual

Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rankings -- ...

David Viney

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2008

Well worth a read - from an experience ecom guy
I believe this is my first review on Amazon, but please dont discount me as a newbie. I've been a customer here for many years. I also own a web development studio & business consulting company - and I've been involved with ecommerce for about 12 years...including ...

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (VOICES)

Jesse James Garrett

New Riders Press, 2002

Fundamental, yet comprehensive
Although very basic, this book is great for getting the fundamentals of experience design. Garret creates a model that describes the web design process through five distinct stages. Then he breaks down each stage to identify the differences and overlapping areas ...

Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns

Michael Bowers

Apress, 2007

Lots of light bulbs
Those who understand CSS will find a trove here. One may trudge through other one true holy grail bulletproof designs. They have their place. Then, leap, at last, into this book. It's been sitting on your bookshelf, perhaps, undeservedly ignored, for a week? You ...

Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS

Ian Lloyd

SitePoint, 2006

Wonderful Resource for Novice
This is a very good book. I have been stumbling around for some months now trying to figure out how to do web site development, yet never having had any training to do so. I'm only half way through this book, but it is like the lights have come on. This book really ...