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The Bottom Line

The great thing about this book is the examples or patterns. These patterns show you best practices for creating working Web sites.



Pros

• Color photos make it easy to follow
• Tons of examples
• Good overview of customer-centered design

Cons

• None

Description

• The first five chapters cover the specifics of customer-centered design.
• Then in part 2 the patterns bring you examples of how to use these techniques.

• Patterns include: ecommerce, creating navigation, homepages, site branding, and writing content.
• You also will learn more about effective layouts and funnelling your customers.

Guide Review - The Design of Sites

Feb 10, 2004 - The thing that's really nice about this book is that you can open it to nearly any page and find something of value. The sections are all labeled with related sections indicated through color coding and numbering. This makes it easy to bounce around in a book as if you were on a Web page with hypertext (perhaps not as easy as hypertext, but much more permanent). I filled my copy of this book with flags and bookmarks to remind me to do various things on my sites. I love the color photos and the best-practices spelled out in detail. This is a very useful, if thick, book.