Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design - Softcover

Flanders, Vincent; Willis, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 078212187X ISBN 13: 9780782121872

Publisher: Sybex Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Describes with humor ways to design, build, and maintain effective Web sites, including criticism of Web sites the authors feel are badly designed

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Review

Unless you're abnormally gifted, the best way to learn a craft thoroughly is to learn not only its central tenets but also its pitfalls. Here, authors Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis teach you good Web design by pointing out ugly, misguided, and confusing sites--any site that fails to deliver good graphics and clear, well-focused content. As the authors show you all sorts of corporate and personal pages, they help you determine your target audience, design your site and its navigational elements and content, and solve problems concerning graphics and text. You also learn about using tables versus frames and get an introduction to hot technologies such as plug-ins, cascading style sheets, XML, databases, VRML, Java, streaming video and audio, videoconferencing, and chat. Finally, the authors address maintenance and marketing issues, teaching you how to set up an appropriate domain name, update your site, register your site with search engines and directories, and use reciprocal links and banner ads. The authors address cross-platform issues and Netscape/Microsoft incompatibility issues where appropriate. This is a full-color book, with enthusiastic, amusing writing as well as helpful screen shots and tips on Web-design software. The companion hybrid CD-ROM includes utilities for creating GIF animations, style sheets, and HTML pages and for creating, compressing, and optimizing Web graphics.

From the Author

Movies have Siskel and Ebert...Web sites have Flanders and Willis. If you design Web sites, plan to build one, or are just an active surfer, you need to hear what they have to say. Funny, opinionated, and always to-the-point, Flanders and Willis have developed a reputation for being the Web?s leading critics. They?ll teach you all about: What works, what utterly sucks, and how to fix it; Creating enticing content and graphics?and keeping it all fresh; Avoiding injury at the hands of bleeding-edge technologies; Marketing your site, generating traffic, and making money. Flanders and Willis rip bad pages to shreds--and then show you who's doing it right. Web Pages That Suck demystifies the 'big guys' and passes along all the tools you need to be a player on the Web. Based on the wildly popular, award-winning site WebPagesThatSuck.com...

Edition details

• Publisher: Sybex Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 078212187X
• ISBN 13: 9780782121872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266