Web Design That Works provides an innovative approach to creating winning websites that combines pure graphic design elements with New Economy needs and solutions. It examines the most pressing challenges facing today's web designers, from how to answer the needs of diverse audiences and age groups; to how standard design elements such as usability, structure, navigation, interactivity, type, color, and layout work to make a site memorable. Through practical descriptions accompanied by screen-captures, author Lisa Baggerman closely examines twenty very diverse website designs to illustrate what makes each work, and why each is successful from a consumer, content, and design perspective. Delivering hands-on tools and valuable consumer and trend information, this cutting edge collection showcases the power of design to attract and keep a devoted Web audience.
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... an inspirational book for designers, producers, project managers and their clients. -- Communication Arts magazine
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Lisa Baggerman has experience in nearly every aspect of graphic design, from multimedia to environmental graphics. Former senior editor and digital design special-issue planner at HOW magazine, Baggerman also served as the acting webmaster for the How Now site (www.howdesign.com). She is currently web site manager for Chronicle Books in San Francisco (www.chroniclebooks.com) and the author Design for Interaction, User-Friendly Graphics (Rockport Publishers)
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great examples of good design,
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This is an excellent book with great examples of good design. It is filled with screenshots, and it has a lot of detail regarding why the site was made the way it was, inspiration, etc. Logo Design That Works was also a great book by the same author.
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This book is filled with about two dozen examples of web design; some are indeed excellent designs nicely illustrated and briefly annotated. Not a lot of text to bog you down; lots of pretty pictures to give you ideas. However, you may not agree with all the things that "work," such as sites that require a specific window size or sites with busy/loud layouts. But whether you agree or not with all the author's comments, the book makes for a good idea reference. Plus, since many of the featured sites no longer exist, this book is one of the few ways to see some great designs that are no longer around.
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Solid overview of some of the best in web design,
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If you're looking for inspiration for your website, or to see where your skills stack up, this is an excellent book of case studies in web design.It shows how the designs enhance the functional aspects of the sites and shows a site-wide view of how the visuals are implemented. Not much in the way of instruction, but more of a 'learn by example' kind of book.
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The launch of the Internet spurred an industry boom-pretty much anyone who considered himself an analyst was boldly predicting that the Web would squash brick-and-mortar retailers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
curiously strong mints, personal market Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ask Jeeves, Booth Hansen, Google Search, New York City, Wendy Butler, William Drenttel, Blues World, Copy Style, Cutting-Edge Potential, Mellow Gold, Gad Beck, Jizchak Schwersenz, Other Ways To Google, The Drinks, Vice President New!
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- Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller on page 11
- Flash Web Design by Hillman Curtis on page 68
- The Seventh Floor by Terry Ellis in Back Matter
- Keeping Faith by John Schaeffer on page 93
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