CREATING WEBSITES THAT WORK
' the author give you the ingredients to make awebsite that work, but more important,they give you the ingredients for a career that works with skills that won't go to out of fashion or change with every new software release.'
-- Jakob nielsen,Ph.D.
Author, Desingning Web Usability: The
Pratice of Simplicity
In this unique primer , Kathry Summers,veteran technical writing instructor at University of Baltimore, and her brother, Michael Summes , user experience specialist with Nielsen Norman Group, teach you to build a website that meets the needs of both the site owner and the site user.
This easy-to-follow text provides a wealth of illustrations and eaxamples to take you from creating a site map and Considering credibility issuse through designing content elements and site testing. The steps to creating outstanding websites are organized into six concise chapters:
1) Creating a Portfolio Site
2) Requierments Gathering
3) Experience Design
4) Elements of Effective Visual Desing
5) Creating Effective Content for the Web
6) Usability Analysis
1. Creating a Portfolio Site
2. Requirements Gathering
3. Experience Design
4. Elements of Effective Visual Design
5. Creating Effective Content for the Web
6. Usability Analysis