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Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual
David McFarland
Pogue Press, 2007
good book... great price
+ Dreamweaver CS3 - Manual
+ It is a great book
+ A HUGE help!
+ Fantasticaly Helpful
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Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
Peter Morville
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
Great Introduction to Search & Also Being Found.
+ Provocative well written
This is a great introduction to some of the more important concepts in search and its corollary - beingfound. Finding information, things, or people on the Internet is one of the most important issues for today's researchers and knowledge workers. Similarly, for businesses or others with a ...
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Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton
Yale University Press, 1999
Um...I'd read another book instead
+ Helpful technical guide
+ Book doing a good job in sumaring what a website should do to work
+ Unique features to this Guide
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Principles of Web Design, Third Edition (Web Warrior Series)
Joel Sklar
Course Technology, 2005
A Very Useful Resource, User Friendly
+ Principles of Web Design
This was one of the better web design books that I have read. It ranks even above HTML Goodies web design books. From an experienced web designer I recommend this book greatly.
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Practical Information Architecture: A Hands-On Approach to Structuring Successful Websites
Eric L. Reiss
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000
Buy it, hate it, then LOVE it!
+ Best introduction to an important subject
+ Excellent resource!
I started off feeling kind of so-what about this book. There's lots of useful stuff in it, but most seemed pretty obvious. Not so! I found myself making lots of notes and underlining whole pages. By the time I was finished reading, I had figured out how to fix a usability problem I've been ...
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Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
Jennifer Niederst Robbins
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006
Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
+ A Generally Good Reference Book
+ Great overview / refresher for me
+ Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
+ Very good book for CSS
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Built for Use: Driving Profitability Through the User Experience
Karen Donoghue, Michael D Schrage
McGraw-Hill, 2002
Voice of a Consultant
+ Four Plus or 5 Minus
+ Buy this book and give it to management
Built for Use, by user experience strategist Karen Donoghue, is a compendium of knowledge that anyone hoping to build a truly usable user interface should possess. Donoghue draws on her many years of experience as an industry consultant to present analyses of how websites and other human-machine ...
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Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web Sites (VOICES)
Andrew Chak
New Riders Press, 2002
The potential to vastly improve everyone's online experience
+ Smart, useful and concise - just what I needed!
+ The Culturally Proficient School
I've been involved in Website design and implementation since 1996. I don't claim to be the top designer, but the success of my sites gives me enough stature to comment on a book like this. First, the downside of this book: It was published in 2003. Consequently, some of the references and ...
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Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work (Interactive Technologies)
Tom Brinck, Darren Gergle, ...
Morgan Kaufmann, 2001
Seven user navigation models are excellent
+ One more thing to make it more usable...
+ Most elaborate book
+ The best book for web usability..!
+ My usability bible
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User-Centered Web Design
John Cato
Addison Wesley Longman, 2001
A "user friendly' and practical guide
+ Practical, but based in good theory
+ Usable book for user centered design
A "user friendly' and practical guide to designing or transforming personal or professional interactive websites, John Cato's User-Centered Web Design specifically focuses on designing for the end-user. A concise, readable text presents a comprehensive overview, practical advice, proven ...
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Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Voices That Matter)
Andy Clarke, Molly E. Holzschlag
New Riders Press, 2006
Good advice for the intermediate/advanced designer
+ Must have. Period.
+ A book that will help good Web designers become better
+ Inspires better design, markup, and syling
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Adobe Master Class: Web Site Redesigns
Darcy DiNucci
Pearson Education, 2001
A beautiful and fascinating book
+ Valuable insights!
Instead of telling you what's wrong with a zillion websites, the author has picked a few good ones, and lets you see behind the scenes how they got that way. The sites range from big business to one-man shop, which is refreshing -- you can apply the principles here without a huge budget. You get to ...
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Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach
Jonathan Lazar
Addison Wesley, 2005
User Interface Design/Human Computer Interaction Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach Jonathan Lazar, Towson University ISBN 0-321-32135-9 DESIGN WITH THE USER IN MIND A Web site design that does not consider its user is a Web site that is destined to be a disappointing experience for the user. This new book by Jonathan Lazar provides readers with the concepts and tools needed to ...
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Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points (VOICES)
37signals
New Riders Press, 2004
Common sense distilled
This book is a nice collection of what should be common sense rules (obviously common sense is not so common, as the examples of actual web sites in the book prove). I would assume that it would be most beneficial to a beginning designer, although it's a book everyone involved with web design or ...
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Photoshop Design for the Web
Chulyoo Kim
Wiley, 2002
This great guide covers everything you'll need to begin editing images for the Web using Photoshop 6, including working with layers, creating paths, slicing images, creating rollovers and animations, and warping text. It also includes a chapter showing 16 of the best Web sites that use Photoshop in new and exciting ways.
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