Designing Interactive Web Sites (Paperback)

~ Matthew Butterick (Author), Jeanne McKirchy-Spencer (Author), Dave Harlan (Author), David Karam (Author), Steve Venuti (Author), Dave Beach (Author), Stephan Vladimir Bugaj (Author), Richard Tackenberg (Author), Peter Merholz (Author), Gong Szeto (Author, Editor)

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Product Description

Applies a task-oriented approach that focuses on what designers want to accomplish on a web site, exploring the effective use of interactivity and explaining how to provide for specific needs. Original. (Advanced).

From the Publisher

This book will help Web developers create exciting Web sites that will keep users coming back for more. The power of the Web is interactivity, but until recently most Web sites were passive. You may look, but not touch. - Provides tips and techniques for integrating interactivity into overall site design

- Features in-depth coverage of changing site content based on who is viewing it

- CD-ROM includes tools, scripts, and examples for creating appealing, interactive Web sites

Product Details

• Paperback: 457 pages
• Publisher: Hayden Books (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568303114
• ISBN-13: 978-1568303116
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,634,323 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great samples for interactivity in web, May 1, 2000

By	335 "335" (Anywhere, United States) - See all my reviews

I used this book largely as a reference and for the samples on the CD-ROM. The book emphasizes the importance of incorporating feedback from web surfers and using this feedback to customize the site as well as other applications.

The book is lengthy and does not offer many pictures; however, the advice is very sound and definitely comes from one who has been there. It is a good reference and worth the purchase for the CD-ROM.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars heloo, February 7, 1999

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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars So where are they all now.., February 7, 2002

By	Ian (Leeds, UK) - See all my reviews

Having bought this book about a year or so ago, I just picked it up from the bookshelf and had a look at the current URLs of the examples provided. Given the rate of change of the web you would expect many of these example sites to be different - I found that many were no longer there - and those that were have changed their style radically. Hmmm. Not a good advert for the book!