Designing Large-Scale Web Sites: A Visual Design Methodology [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Throwing together a small and snazzy home page on the Net is trivial. Throwing together a large and annoying Web site on the Net is not much more difficult. But crafting a large, snazzy, and compelling Web site on the Net is nearly impossible unless you do a lot of advance planning and carefully thought-out usability studies. Happily, the author of this book--with experience as a Web site designer for Netscape and an interface designer for Silicon Graphics and Sun--walks you through the entire process. The book is especially strong in its coverage of frames and Framesets. Highly recommended for all serious designers of large-scale Web sites.

Written by a user interface and graphics designer with experience in the design of large-scale Web projects with Netscape, this book applies the principles of user interface design and software engineering to the design of these increasingly sophisticated Web sites. It walks you through the entire process--from the setting of objectives through implementation. Features many illustrations, designs and examples. Includes eight-color pages.

Businesses have now found that it can be quite simple to set up a page on the World Wide Web - with links to other pages and sites - for an instant corporate Web presence. For an organization that needs to establish a Web presence to reflect product and corporate information, the task becomes much more involved. The focus of this book is on developing a Web site, from preliminary design, budgeting and scheduling, to development procedures, project management, and the design of the organizational framework of a Web site. It provides techniques and supporting examples that can be applied to any large-scale Web site in any organization. Within this framework of user interface design principles, the book deals with the new critical issues of Web page development, including setting up the site to accept commercial transactions (digital cash), controlling access to users and other security related issues, supporting chat and human interaction, advanced layout and design techniques.

A must have for anyone involved in web site development
Written by Darrell Sano, a user-interface designer with Netscape, this book gives you a complete methodology to use when planning, designing, and developing full-featured, interactive Web sites. I've had readers tell me that this is the *first* book anyone should read before they start designing web pages. It's extremely well-written and very accessible, even to those without a strong technical background.

With this book, you'll learn how to apply user-interface design, graphic design, and software engineering strategies and techniques to designing large-scale Web sites. Sano takes you through many critical site development issues, including organizing and prioritizing content, supporting user tasks and goals, and advanced layout and design techniques,including Netscape Frameset documents.

He also gives dozens of examples of effective Web site design, including a stunning 8-page full-color gallery of Web pages illustrating the concepts presented in the book.

A proven methodology for creating sophisticated, visually appealing Web sites for business, education, and entertainment interests

No longer just a research or academic reference library, the Net is on its way to becoming the ultimate interactive medium of worldwide commerce, education, and entertainment. That's why anyone involved in designing today's increasingly sophisticated Web sites needs to know a lot more than just a handful of HTML protocols. To design a usable and appealing site capable of handling complex human interactions, you need to know how to effectively apply the principles of visual and user-interface design. Now this book shows you how.

Written by a professional user-interface and graphic designer with extensive experience designing large-scale Web sites, this book gives you a complete methodology to use when planning, designing, and developing full-featured, interactive Web sites. Working within the framework of user-interface design principles, and using many detailed examples to illustrate his points, Darrell Sano walks you through the entire process--from setting objectives and defining user and content limitations, to visual design techniques for effective page layout.

Shows you how to apply user-interface design, graphic design, and software engineering strategies and techniques to designing large-scale Web sites
* Explores many critical site development issues, including organizing and prioritizing content, supporting user tasks and goals, and advanced layout and design techniques, including Netscape 2.0 Frameset documents
* Features dozens of examples of effective Web site design, including a stunning 8-page full-color gallery of Web pages illustrating the concepts presented in the book

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DARRELL SANO is a user-interface designer with Netscape, specializing in the planning and design of large-scale Web sites for commerce and communication. A former interface designer for Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems, he has taught user-interface design at various conferences and events, including the MIT X Consortium Technical Conference, ACM SIGCHI, and the American Center for Design. While at Sun, he was the designer of the server for the world's most popular sporting event, the WorldCupUSA94.