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Designing Web Navigation

Author : James Kalbach

Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Page : 415 pages

File Size : 29,91 MB

Release : 2007-08-28

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0596553781

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Book Description

Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology-it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them. Ideal for beginning to intermediate web designers, managers, other non-designers, and web development pros looking for another perspective, Designing Web Navigation offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development. This book: Provides the foundations of web navigation and offers a framework for navigation design Paints a broad picture of web navigation and basic human information behavior Demonstrates how navigation reflects brand and affects site credibility Helps you understand the problem you're trying to solve before you set out to design Thoroughly reviews the mechanisms and different types of navigation Explores "information scent" and "information shape" Explains "persuasive" architecture and other design concepts Covers special contexts, such as navigation design for web applications Includes an entire chapter on tagging While Designing Web Navigation focuses on creating navigation systems for large, information-rich sites serving a business purpose, the principles and techniques in the book also apply to small sites. Well researched and cited, this book serves as an excellent reference on the topic, as well as a superb teaching guide. Each chapter ends with suggested reading and a set of questions that offer exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.



Navigation Design and SEO for Content-Intensive Websites

Author : Mario Pérez-Montoro

Publisher : Chandos Publishing

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 13,78 MB

Release : 2016-08-21

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0081006772

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Navigation Design and SEO for Content-Intensive Websites: A Guide for an Efficient Digital Communication presents the characteristics and principal guidelines for the analysis and design of efficient navigation and information access systems on content-intensive websites, such as magazines and other media publications. Furthermore, the book aims to present the tools of information processing, including information architecture (IA) and content categorization systems, so that such designs can ensure a good navigation experience based on the semantic relations between content items. The book also presents best practices in the design of information access systems with regard to their main structures, including search query forms and search result pages. Finally, the book describes the foundations of search engine optimization (SEO), emphasizing SEO oriented to publications focused on communication and the coverage of current affairs, including images and videos. - Focuses on the newly emerging and significant sector of content characterized by its use of multimedia: text, image and video - Presents comprehensive coverage of sites and their combined information architecture and SEO needs - Explores an analysis of existing best practices to offer operational proposals for the development of digital news and current affairs publications - Analyzes academic studies by scholars working in this field



An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation

Author : Mark Levene

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 26,53 MB

Release : 2011-01-14

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1118060342

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Book Description

This book is a second edition, updated and expanded to explain the technologies that help us find information on the web. Search engines and web navigation tools have become ubiquitous in our day to day use of the web as an information source, a tool for commercial transactions and a social computing tool. Moreover, through the mobile web we have access to the web's services when we are on the move. This book demystifies the tools that we use when interacting with the web, and gives the reader a detailed overview of where we are and where we are going in terms of search engine and web navigation technologies.



Web Navigation

Author : Jennifer Fleming

Publisher : O'Reilly Media

Page : 298 pages

File Size : 23,30 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Computers

ISBN :

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The CD-ROM to accompany this book is held at the Reserve Desk at 004.678 WEB.



Eyetracking Web Usability

Author : Jakob Nielsen

Publisher : New Riders

Page : 457 pages

File Size : 14,28 MB

Release : 2010-04-26

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0321714075

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Eyetracking Web Usability is based on one of the largest studies of eyetracking usability in existence. Best-selling author Jakob Nielsen and coauthor Kara Pernice used rigorous usability methodology and eyetracking technology to analyze 1.5 million instances where users look at Web sites to understand how the human eyes interact with design. Their findings will help designers, software developers, writers, editors, product managers, and advertisers understand what people see or don’t see, when they look, and why. With their comprehensive three-year study, the authors confirmed many known Web design conventions and the book provides additional insights on those standards. They also discovered important new user behaviors that are revealed here for the first time. Using compelling eye gaze plots and heat maps, Nielsen and Pernice guide the reader through hundreds of examples of eye movements, demonstrating why some designs work and others don’t. They also provide valuable advice for page layout, navigation menus, site elements, image selection, and advertising. This book is essential reading for anyone who is serious about doing business on the Web.



Designing Web Usability

Author : Jakob Nielsen

Publisher : New Riders Publishing

Page : 436 pages

File Size : 11,15 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Computers

ISBN :

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A guide to creating user-friendly web sites that provides information on how companies can ensure their web sites are easy to locate and navigate.



Web Style Guide

Author : Patrick J. Lynch

Publisher :

Page : 223 pages

File Size : 27,41 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Computers

ISBN : 9780300096828

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Book Description

This book demonstrates the step-by-step process involved in designing a Web site. Readers are assumed to be familiar with whatever Web publishing tool they are using. The guide gives few technical details but instead focuses on the usability, layout, and attractiveness of a Web site, with the goal being to make it as popular with the intended audience as possible. Considerations such as graphics, typography, and multimedia enhancements are discussed.



Designing Web Interfaces

Author : Mike Rees

Publisher : Prentice Hall Professional

Page : 398 pages

File Size : 48,40 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Electronic books

ISBN : 0130858978

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Book Description

Interactive labs and exercises are featured throughout this book so readers can practice everything they've learned, reinforce their knowledge, and demonstrate proficiency. The authors introduce the Human-Computer Interface (HCI) and its role in Web interface design.



Web Site Design is Communication Design

Author : Thea van der Geest

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 33,23 MB

Release : 2001-01-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9789027232021

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Book Description

Web Site Design is Communication Design is written for practitioners, trainers, and students of Communication, Business, Information Science and Media Design. This book is based on a series of case studies of the web site design processes in smaller and larger organizations, including Amazon and Microsoft. It offers a well-researched, reflective and thorough analysis of the activities undertaken, in combination with practical, real-life experiences of web site designers and producers. It pays attention to the often complicated organizational context that web designers and producers have to work in, while they serve both bosses and target groups to their best intents. The importance of careful evaluation is stressed throughout the book and the in concluding checklists, which guide the practitioner through the design process, from initial idea through site maintenance and re-design.



Web Designer's Reference

Author : Craig Grannell

Publisher : Apress

Page : 410 pages

File Size : 50,31 MB

Release : 2007-03-01

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1430204125

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*Functions as two books in one: twelve tutorials chapters combined with thorough reference to XHTML and CSS syntax. *"Integrates design, theory, and practical exercises"—working on a modular basis, just as a real-world designer must. *Each chapter is self-contained, enabling readers to dip in and out and learn specific techniques, without necessarily reading through the entire book.