Don't just build Web sites: architect them for maximum usability and effectiveness! In this book, leading usability and information design specialist Charles J. Lyons shows you how. Discover easy, practical ways to identify your users' requirements, translate their needs into superb content and navigation -- and avoid user confusion and expensive site retrofitting. Using a hands-on case study and live companion Web site, Essential Design for Web Professionals walks you through every step of the process: analysis, site design, delivery, and beyond! Usability expert Charles J. Lyons demonstrates how to identify your users' key needs and requirements; then build sites that can evolve and grow to meet them more and more effectively. You'll learn how to define logical, clear, easy-to-use navigation systems; use graphics more effectively; and test your site's usability with real users. Lyons shows how to globalize your Web presence for worldwide audiences; make your site accessible to the physically challenged -- and even leverage the awesome power of XML.
- ISBN10 0130321613
- ISBN13 9780130321619
- Publish Date 18 April 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 May 2007
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Prentice Hall
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English