Designing Web Usability

Designing Web Usability is like the ultimate book on web design theory. I was fascinated reading this book. If you designed one or more web sites most of the things talked about in this book will be familiar to you as well as the questions posed. "What resolution should I design for?", "Is it ok to use frames?", "Just how big should my images be?" and many more considerations we must take into account when designing a web site.

This book doesn't just talk about specifications, it also shows screen shots of web sites and points out the strengths and weaknesses of each.

Designing Web Usability covers page design, content design, site design, accessibility and more. Topics are covered in-depth and the book is well organized.

This is a very informative book and good reading for those interested or currently involved in web design. One of the topics covered is screen resolution and it talks about the evolution of web page width design from the beginning when web pages were designed to fit into 300 pixels and how now the average is 775 pixels which will fit an 800 pixel screen resolution. Designing for browser compatibility is included as well as color depth.

This book should be on your desktop as a reference guide.

Designing Web Usability
Jakob Nielsen
ISBN: 1-56205-810-X
New Riders
$45.00(US)  $67.95(CAN)  34.99(UK)

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