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Web Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

jeff johnson

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The dot.com crash of 2000 was a wake-up call, and told us that the Web has far to go before achieving the acceptance predicted for it in '95. A large part of what is missing is quality; a primary component of the missing quality is usability. The Web is not nearly as easy to use as it needs to be for the average person to rely on it for everyday information, commerce, and entertainment.
In response to strong feedback from readers of GUI BLOOPERS calling for a book devoted exclusively to Web design bloopers, Jeff Johnson calls attention to the most frequently occurring and annoying design bloopers from real web sites he has worked on or researched. Not just a critique of these bloopers and their sites, this book shows how to correct or avoid the blooper and gives a detailed analysis of each design problem.
* Discusses in detail 60 of the most common and critical web design mistakes, along with the solutions, challenges, and tradeoffs associated with them.
* Covers important subject areas such as: content, task-support, navigation, forms, searches, writing, link appearance, and graphic design and layout.
* Organized and formatted based on the results of its own usability test performed by web designers themselves.
* Features its own web site (www.web-bloopers.com)with new and emerging web design no-no's (because new bloopers are born every day) along with a much requested printable blooper checklist for web designers and developers to use.

null pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,2003

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null pages, Hardcover
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April 1, 2003 by Rebound by Sagebrush
ISBN
9780613915847
ASIN
0613915844
Language
English

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This book contains 60 common mistakes made by web designers with respect to usability, layout and other aspects of the website. It contains several examples from popular websites, including how those websites later fixed those mistakes. One problem with the book is that since it was written a while back (c. 2003), some of the bloopers are less common nowadays. Use this book in conjunction with Jakob Nielsen's useit.com website.
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