Redesigning Web Sites: Retooling for the Changing Needs of Business (Graphic Design) [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "When it comes to the corporate online presence, the changing needs of the business precipitate changing the purpose of the site..." (more)
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In the first wave of e-commerce, the challenge for designers was to create new Web sites for clients. Now that challenge has changed. To meet the shifting demands of the digital marketspace, companies are asking designers to help them upgrade or revamp their existing sites—an entirely different and often much more difficult proposition.

Redesigning Web Sites is a timely and tactical book that no Web designer should be without. Featuring in-depth case studies of 22 Web sites that have been recently redesigned, the book uses an instructive "before and after" model to reveal the purpose of the original site, the reasons it was no longer effective, and the specific ways each designer solved those problems through redesign. Screenshots illustrate the old and new designs for each site, and useful sidebars address more general themes: determining how drastic a redesign should be, orchestrating a site redesign following a merger, and changing the central purpose of a site (such as changing from an interactive site to an informational one).

A comprehensive hands-on guide, this book will help Web designers keep pace with the ever-changing medium they work in.

Stefan Mumaw is a senior creative director for the Brainyard, an advertising agency based in Costa Mesa, California. He teaches traditional Web design and Macromedia Flash. The author of Simple Web Sites, Mumaw lives in Aliso Viejo, California.

About the Author

Stefan Mumaw is a senior creative director for the Brainyard, an advertising agency based in Costa Mesa, California. He teaches traditional Web design and Macromedia Flash. The author of Simple Web Sites, Mumaw lives in Aliso Viejo, California.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers; illustrated edition edition (April 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564969533
• ISBN-13: 978-1564969538
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,697,383 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good but oxymoronic, March 9, 2004

By	Fuad Kamal (MD USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The web site for the book, which is on every other page of the book, doesn't work (http://www.redesigning-websites.com); I checked my spelling a million times and it seems strange that a book about redesigning web sites turns up a 'page not found' for it's own site. I looked at every site reviewed by the book, where available (a few of those also turned up not to exist) the last one (Acura) was one I already thought highly of. The book is filled with glossy pictures and few words, but I found what was said to be rather insightful.