Sep 15, 2007 | Filed in: Books, CSS, Reviews, Web Design
Author: Dan Cederholm.
Publisher: New Riders.
A best practice CSS & XHTML book aimed at the intermediate-advanced web designer. If you’re a beginner looking to learn CSS web design I suggest you look at The CSS Anthology, CSS Mastery or Web Standards Solutions books first, then come back to this book to polish your skills.
The book dives straight into common approaches to everyday techniques. It makes an explanation as to why it may not be the best solution and suggests ‘a bullet-proof approach’ and justifies its reasoning. The book is one of few with colour illustrations which is nice and makes for clearer example images. The book concludes with a chapter demonstrating all the examples in a single website. There are some good techniques in this book and there’s bound to be something new even for the seasoned CSS web designer.
Buy Bulletproof Web Design at amazon.co.uk
Buy Bulletproof Web Design at amazon.com
Sep 15, 2007 | Filed in: Books, Reviews, Web Design
Author: Steve Krug.
Publisher: New Riders
Since reading the first edition some years ago, I always refer to this book during usability presentations and recommend it to not only designers and developers, but also consultants, project managers and even clients. When the second edition was released in 2006 I purchased a few copies for the office and made it essential reading for everyone!
It’s a very easy read and doesn’t complicate matters with technical jargon, but instead relates to everyday tasks such as likening finding a product on a website to looking for a chainsaw in a hardware store. It examines the way we use the internet, it highlights that people don’t use websites the way the designer intended and that we don’t ‘read’ websites, we scan them. It covers popular, common-sense solutions to these issues and uses clear, well-illustrated examples. It also talks about simplifying usability testing so you do enough of it, and uses some real-world examples to demonstrate.
It is an essential purchase for anyone involved in website creation and there are three new chapters in the second edition that help justify a new purchase if you already own the first edition.
Buy Don’t Make Me Think at amazon.co.uk
Buy Don’t Make Me Think at amazon.com
Aug 31, 2007 | Filed in: Personal
It’s a little over half way through the year and time to review the personal goals I set myself last New Year. It’s been hectic and I’m certainly not half way through the list, which includes;
7. Blog at least once per week.
I guess the best way to accomplish this is set up my own blog, right? So, armed with Wordpress and few handy plug-ins, here we go…
