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

Flanders, Vincent; Peters, Dean

  • 3.69 out of 5 stars
    13 ratings by Goodreads
 
9780782140200: Son of Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design

Synopsis

Humorously describes ways to design, build, and maintain effective Web sites, including criticism of Web sites the authors feel are poorly designed.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Vincent Flanders is a leading authority on usability and Web design that created the award-winning Web site WebPagesThatSuck.com and coauthored the best-selling design book Web Pages That Suck. Vincent consults on topics of Web design and usability for a variety of clients, including some in the Fortune 500, and he gives non-boring speeches on design throughout North America.

From the Back Cover

Sequel to the best-seller Web Pages That Suck and based on the insanely popular, award-winning site WebPagesThatSuck.com

Web usability expert Vincent Flanders is back, with an irreverent new look at the Web's worst. If you design Web sites or hire people that do, you need to hear Flanders take on the many mistakes that undermine some of the best-known sites on the Web. Within these pages, you'll:

TREMBLE at the horror that is Mystery Meat Navigation RUN SCREAMING from splishy splashy Flashy pages CONQUER your Web nightmares by learning the four guiding principles of Web design MASTER the art of spotting a page's flaws in two minutes

Flanders skewers sucky pages from Britney Spears, Microsoft, Century 21, Jesse Ventura, and tons of others, all so that you can be sure you don't make the same mistakes they did. You'll learn crucial techniques for developing content that keeps people coming back, optimizing your graphics, choosing effective text colors and matching backgrounds, and plenty more.

Whether you're designing a site for your digital photos or are in charge of your Fortune 500 company's Web presence, Flanders' scathing commentary will have you laughing while his insights have you learning how to create a truly effective site for your audience.

CD Description Includes a CD with Software That Sucks Not! Get 16 excellent utilities to help you design, test, and manage your site, plus links for sites and Web-based resources discussed in the book.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.