1. Web Design: Navigation – Julius Wiedemann
This addition to the popular ICONS Web Design series focuses on very carefully crafted navigation systems, where usability and narrative are taken in consideration in the development of the website.
Released: March 2009
2. The Findability Formula: The Easy, Non-Technical Approach to Search Engine Marketing
This book will help position your business front-and-center when prospects are searching for solutions online.
In addition, Lutze explains how to respond to your customers and understand their issues, wants, and needs so that you can more easily turn prospects into customers. Her step-by-step approach, up-to-date research, and warnings about common pitfalls make this the ultimate practical guide to getting your business noticed on the Internet.
Released: March 2009
3. A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers In The Field or In The Making – Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler
This book presents a chapter-by-chapter guide through an appropriate User Experience process, as well as provides additional information on the creating SOWs and Proposals, Project Ecosystem, best practices for meetings, and understanding business requirements.
User Experience neophytes and professionals alike should be able to find information relevant to any phase of a project in this book.
Released: March 2009
4. When Search Meets Web Usability – Shari Thurow and Nick Musica
This book delivers a proactive approach to building an effective Web site that is search engine friendly and will result in better search rankings.
It outlines the steps needed to bridge the gap between a Google search and a Web site, and also improve the users’ experience once they get to the site.
By understanding the wide variety of information-seeking strategies and the individual behaviors associated with them, this book helps information architects, Web designers/developers, SEOs/SEMs, and usability professionals build better interfaces and functionality into Web sites.
Creating a satisfying user experience is the key to maximizing search effectiveness and getting conversions.
Released: March 2009
5. Sexy Web Design: Creating Interfaces that Work – Elliot Jay Stocks
Designing usable and aesthetically pleasing interfaces is crucial to the success of any application on today’s Web. This book answers critical questions such as:
- What makes a web site work?
- What makes a web site look good?
- What makes a web site easy to use?
This book also covers the process of web site design from the discovery phase all the way through production and the development of style guides.
Released: March 2009
6. Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field – Helen Armstrong
Graphic Design Theory distills modern design thinking into twenty-four essential essays.
It presents ground-breaking, primary texts from the most important historical and contemporary design thinkers—from Aleksandr Rodchenko’s “Who We Are: Manifesto of the Constructivist Group” to Kenya Hara’s “Computer Technology and Design”
This fundamental survey quickly reveals key evolving ideas in the industry, putting them into a rich historical and cultural context.
To Be Released: April 4, 2009
7. Search Engine Optimization for Flash: Best Practices for Using Flash On The Web – Todd Perkins
This breakthrough book offers you a series of best practices for using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, for building sites with Flash that will stand tall in search rankings. You’ll learn how search engines work, what constitutes a search-engine-optimized (SEO) site, and what to watch out for in the way of SEO pitfalls. With this concise book, you will:
- Learn about searchable content, and understand the importance of metadata, keywords, and links
- Place HTML content in your Flash applications
- Create an SEO website by connecting Flash to JavaScript and CSS
- Work effectively with SWFObject by understanding its capabilities and limitations
- Realize the advantages of using the Adobe Flex framework for SEO
The first -and only- book that explains how to optimize Flash content for search engines,Search Engine Optimization for Flash is an invaluable resource if you develop with Flash and want to be sure your audience can easily find your site.
To Be Released: April 6, 2009
8. Speaking in Styles: Fundamentals of CSS for Web Designers – Jason Cranford Teague
Speaking in Styles targets Web designers, aiming to help them learn the “language” that will be used to take their vision from the static comp to the live Internet.
Many designers think that CSS is code, and that it’s too hard to learn.
Author Jason Teague takes an approach to CSS that breaks it down around common design tasks and helps the reader learn that they already think in styles- they just need to learn to speak the language.
To Be Released: April 7, 2009
9. Professional Web Widgets with CSS, DOM, JSON and Ajax – Rajesh Lal and Lakshmi Chava
Professional Widgets with CSS, DOM and Ajax is the first guide to building web widgets – tiny applications that can be embedded in a web page or on the desktop and have exploded in popularity in recent months.
Inside, award-winning programmer Rajesh Lal provides readers with a methodology for building widgets using standards like CSS and DOM to create widgets that work anywhere.
Next he guides readers though the creation of widgets using several popular toolkits and frameworks including Yahoo! Widgets, Silverlight with PopFly, Google Web Toolkit, Microsoft Web Gadgets and more.
Professional Widgets with CSS, DOM and Ajax is heavy on step-by step examples enabling readers to get up to speed and begin building widgets quickly and easily.
To Be Released: April 13, 2009
10. Semantic Web Programming – John Hebeler, Matthew Fisher, Ryan Blace, Andrew Perez-Lopez, Mike Dean
The next major advance in the Web 3.0 will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.
Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains and examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services that are available on the Internet.
Helpful examples demonstrate how to use the semantic Web to solve practical, real-world problems while you take a look at the set of design principles, collaborative working groups, and technologies that form the semantic Web.
To Be Released: April 13, 2009
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