3 Comments for Web Style Guide, 3rd edition: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites

• 1. Audrina  |  October 17th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

  …your project starts with content, business requirements, then business case and information structure; then branding, workflow, layout, usability, navigation, behavior, “look and feel”, wireframes… Sarah and Peter deliver an amazing story to anybody who plays a role in a project. You may own hundreds of books that cover practically every aspect of web design and development. Or, you may get this one. So treat yourself. With every chapter you get more engaged, the examples look familiar, the information is consistent, practical, accurate, realistic, and tremendous fun. It’s a web design bible.
  Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, 3rd Edition

• 2. Ketaki  |  October 17th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

  This is a very clean, clearly-delineated book that follows logically from topic to topic and uses project management principles…not only in what they’re teaching you, but how they’re teaching you and how the book is laid out. This is an excellent reference book, I can’t be happier with this purchase.

  I was very interested in chapter 3 where the authors focus on site architecture: chunking, site structure, and hierarchies were discussed. I find chunking and cross-linking of particular interest lately. Chapter 4, and then chapter 5, transitioned seamlessly into information design, interface, and site organization/structure. Chapter six is a minute analysis of page structure, which I found most informative and valuable. Chapter 7 featured an interesting section on color and font, which rang especially true from what I learned during the film Helvetica–which I watched a week or so ago.

  I’m noticing how everyone quotes eye-tracking studies when they discuss website design, and user-oriented pages. It’s important to recognize the expectations pattern created by other sites and web browsing experience in your users when they come to your site. It’s so important to make the surfing experience intuitive and second-nature…the user can’t be made to think about anything else but satisfying their main reason for having come to your website to begin with.

• 3. Phineas  |  October 17th, 2009 at 12:59 pm

  Although this book is available online, it is nice to have a hard copy to write notes and mark up. I use this book all the time developing sites and take it with me to work and school.

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