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Through case studies, frameworks, and historical context, Yael Ben-David offers savvy and practical guidance to ensure our digital products support the user and the business—plus writers and designers!—all at once.]]> 129 Yael Ben-David 1952616247 Adam 0 design, web-design, ux 3.69
author: Yael Ben-David
name: Adam
average rating: 3.69
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rating: 0
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date added: 2024/05/04
shelves: design, web-design, ux
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]]> 3296910 226 Luke Wroblewski 1933820241 Adam 4 web-design, design 4.03 2008
author: Luke Wroblewski
name: Adam
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2009/05/29
date added: 2009/05/29
shelves: web-design, design
review:
I do enjoy it when a book picks a specific focus, sticks to it, and delivers. One of the hardest things to get right on the web is gathering information from end users, and yet it can have a huge impact on your site's usability and (if you're a for-profit) your bottom line. This book lays out all of the common problems you're likely to encounter from a form design standpoint without dwelling too much on the actual HTML/CSS/JS/whatever implementation (which I think is great). An immensely useful resource.
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From the Publisher

Jonathan Snook, Steve Smith, Jina Bolton, Cameron Adams, and David Johnson, five of the biggest names in CSS design have joined forces to bring you The Art & Science Of CSS.

Beautifully presented in full color, this book will teach you how to apply innovative CSS-based techniques to create visually stunning headings, forms, menus, navigation, backgrounds, and much more...

Using The Art & Science Of CSS, you'll see just how easy it is to unleash your creative talents and design inspirational web sites with CSS.

All designs in this book are visually appealing and inspiring. The CSS code used to create each of the components is included and guaranteed to be simple, efficient and cross-browser compatible. Among its many treasures, this book will show you how

All designs in this book are visually appealing and inspiring. The code CSS code used to create each of the components is provided and is guaranteed to be simple, efficient and cross-browser compatible.

Who Should Read This Book?

This book is ideal for anyone who wants to gain the practical skills involved in using CSS to make attractive web sites, especially if you're not the type who likes to learn by memorizing a formal specification and then trying to work out which browsers implemented it completely (does anyone enjoy reading specifications?). The only knowledge you'll need to have is some familiarity with HTML. This book will give designers the skills they need to implement their ideas, and provides developers with creative inspiration through practical examples.]]> 213 Jonathan Snook 0975841971 Adam 3 web-design, design 3.80 2007
author: Jonathan Snook
name: Adam
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2009/04/01
date added: 2009/04/26
shelves: web-design, design
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]]> 130730 216 William Lidwell 1592530079 Adam 3 web-design, design 4.15 2003
author: William Lidwell
name: Adam
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 2009/01/17
date added: 2009/01/21
shelves: web-design, design
review:
The alphabetic, single-page-per-topic presentation kept the content simple enough for a wide audience to understand, but it also felt like a hindrance (and perhaps the magic number of '100' was also a contrivance, but maybe that's just coincidence). Some of the entries felt like duplicates, using the same clip art as examples or the same phrasing between topics. Overall it felt like the book needed an editor to enforce better consistency -- after reading the various entries I could pick out the writing style of the three different authors. Not bad, especially as a general overview of some common design issues for new designers, but to me it felt like it lacked depth on most of the topics. Bonus points for the sidebar bibliography that came with most entries, though.
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In Refactoring HTML, Elliotte Rusty Harold explains how to use refactoring to improve virtually any Web site or application. Writing for programmers and non-programmers alike, Harold shows how to refactor for better reliability, performance, usability, security, accessibility, compatibility, and even search engine placement. Step by step, he shows how to migrate obsolete code to today’s stable Web standards, including XHTML, CSS, and REST—and eliminate chronic problems like presentation-based markup, stateful applications, and “tag soup.��

The book’s extensive catalog of detailed refactorings and practical “recipes for success�� are organized to help you find specific solutions fast, and get maximum benefit for minimum effort. Using this book, you can quickly improve site performance now—and make your site far easier to enhance, maintain, and scale for years to come.

Topics covered include

�� Recognizing the “smells�� of Web code that should be refactored
�� Transforming old HTML into well-formed, valid XHTML, one step at a time
�� Modernizing existing layouts with CSS
�� Updating old Web replacing POST with GET, replacing old contact forms, and refactoring JavaScript
�� Systematically refactoring content and links
�� Restructuring sites without changing the URLs your users rely upon

This book will be an indispensable resource for Web designers, developers, project managers, and anyone who maintains or updates existing sites. It will be especially helpful to Web professionals who learned HTML years ago, and want to refresh their knowledge with today’s standards-compliant best practices.
This book will be an indispensable resource for Web designers, developers, project managers, and anyone who maintains or updates existing sites. It will be especially helpful to Web professionals who learned HTML years ago, and want to refresh their knowledge with today’s standards-compliant best practices.]]> 340 Elliotte Rusty Harold 0321503635 Adam 3 3.37 2008
author: Elliotte Rusty Harold
name: Adam
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2009/01/13
date added: 2009/01/13
shelves: technology, design, web-design
review:
Really a good resource for those looking to clean up their sites to be more standards and usability compliant. Reads like a reference book, a format that I think works well for the material.
]]> 259070 Companies everywhere are staking their fortunes and their futures on their Web sites. People with little or no experience are responsible for these big-budget projects, and usability is suddenly a hot-button, bottom-line issue. Don't Make Me Think! is for the people in the trenches-the designers, the programmers, the webmasters, the project managerzs, the marketing people, and the folks who sign the checks. Krug's clearly explained, easily absorbed principles will help you arrive at both the rights questions to ask the experts you hire, and practical answers so you can make difficult technical, aesthetic, and structural decisions.]]> 195 Steve Krug 0789723107 Adam 4 web-design 4.32 2000
author: Steve Krug
name: Adam
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2008/12/29
shelves: web-design
review:

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