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Personal Web Page Design Personal Websites: Pushing the Boundaries with Experimental Design and Graphics by Joe Shepter, Whatever.nike.com drew from a designer's personal Website to create its navigation concepts. Award-winning Website barneys.com borrowed technological breakthroughs from a personal site called Praystation.com. Such sites -- whether homepages that show off a designer's work, or "business" Web pages that have been turned into creative experiments -- are the breeding grounds of tomorrow's biggest commercial successes. Personal Websites examines this critical genre of Web design, showcasing the personal work of more than 25 of the top designers in the field. From personal sites like volumeone.com to homepages like futurefarmers.com to design magazines like kiiroi.nu, the book illustrates how the best in the business use private projects as a testing ground for future commercial projects. Insightful text and telling interviews provide an intimate window into each artist's private world of creativity, and compelling images showcase some of the most beautiful examples of online design. Offering a fresh view of how Web designers get their inspiration, this unique volume makes the undeniable connection between personal creative passion and commercial success.
User-Centered Web Site Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach with CDROM by Daniel D. McCracken, Here is a book that presents Web design as an application of key ideas of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This text is the only one of its kind that addresses Human-Computer Interaction as it relates to website design. It stresses HCI principles, not just Web implementation techniques. The book provides a working knowledge of Web design, aimed at creating Web pages and sites that are attractive and user-friendly, while allowing students to become familiar with the concepts and terminology of Web design as a basis for further study. Major themes include: Human Computer Interaction: Chapters 1-8 cover the importance of knowing your customer and the significance of visual and content organization of a website, as well as navigation design and the crucial issues of prototyping and user testing. Supporting Disciplines: The impact of color, typography, and multimedia are discussed in terms of website development. Major Web Issues: The significance of accessibility, globalization, and personalization are discussed in the context of a successful website. Rich in pedagogy, the book contains more than 300 review questions, exercises, and projects. A full suite of instructor supplements is also available.
Rollover (web design) - Rollover refers to a button as created by a web developer or web designer, found within a web page, used to provide interactivity between the user and the page itself. The term rollover in this regard originates from the visual process of "rolling the mouse cursor over the button" causing the button to react (usually visually), and sometimes resulting in a change in the web page itself. Web design - Web design is the design of web pages, websites and web applications. The term also refers to web-based Graphical user interface design using images, CSS and one of the HTML standards. Internal link - An internal link is a link in the context of web design is a hypertext function whereby clicking on the word or picture (an "object") causes a web browser to load the new page to which the object is linked. Thus, clicking on the hypertext-affected word card should lead you to a page about a card or cards. Microsite - A microsite, (also known as minisite), is an Internet Web design term referring to an individual web page or cluster of pages which are meant to function as an auxiliary supplement to a primary website. The microsite’s main landing page most likely has its own Internet URL address. personalwebpagedesign |
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