Focuses on the two crucial issues of cart design and security. Examples included. Focused entirely on a single Web development task and designing solutions for it. Softcover.

Usable Shopping Carts

Jody Kerr

Jody Kerr Clifton Evans Jon Stephens

Clifton Evans

Glasshaus

Accessibility is about making web sites that do not exclude people with visual, aural, or physical disabilities. This book will enable web professionals to create or retrofit accessible web sites quickly and easily. It is a practical book; the accessibility techniques outlined within are illustrated with real world examples from live sites, demonstrating that accessibility is not the enemy of great visual design. 
This book includes: * Practical techniques for developing completely accessible web sites * Detailed discussion of the legal requirements of Section 508, UK, European, Australian, and Japanese legislation * A quick reference guide to accessible web site design * Accessible Flash MX authoring

Constructing Accessible Web Sites

Computers & Technology

Jim Thatcher

Web Development & Design

When developing a web site, one of the most important things to consider is the navigation menu, to allow your users to find their way around it. It needs to usable, informative, and well implemented, but this can take time. 
 This book will take all the hassle out of implementing web menus, in whatever style and technology you wish, by providing full code samples, along with walkthrough tutorials on how they work to allow easy customisation for your own needs. 
 This book covers: 
 a. Guidelines on designing usable web menus, with 12 common-sense rules to follow b. Information Architecture for menus (including identifying your target user), and user testing c. Easy to Follow tutorials on building menus with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Flash d. Advanced tutorials on dynamically populating menus from XML and databases with server-side scripting, including PHP and ASP e. Extensive Web support including fully adaptable downloadable code for your own use, and a gallery of working menu examples.

Constructing Usable Web Menus

Andy Beaumont

37.8% of all Usability Pundits are wrong. That's about as accurate as any other sweeping generalisation made by any other web usability guru. This book features case-studies in usability and information architecture from the makers of eBay, the BBC news on-line site, The Economist web site, SynFonts (a flash-driven font foundry e-commerce site), evolt (fully cross-browser compatible) and metafilter. Know your audience, design for your audience, test for usability, and solicit feedback from your audience. There are no hard-and-fast rules for usability on the Web, which is why this book steers away from the rigid rules of gurus. Instead, this book looks at six very different, but highly usable sites. The web professionals behind these sites discuss the design of each site from inception to today, how they solicited and responded to feedback, how they identified and dealt with problems, and how they meet the audience's needs and expectations. This book is edited by Molly E. Holzschlag, a member of Web Standards Project and author of a dozen books on web technologies, and Bruce Lawson, the brand manager of glasshaus. - Max Gadney of the BBC talks about the trials of moving from the TV medium to the Web, and the differences in usability requirements between the main news site, and the sports and children's sites - David Wertheimer talks of how The Economist's web site involved careful design work to ensure the branding mirrored the print magazine, and looks at implementing easily distinguished free content and subscription only sections - eBay: Kelly Braun and Tom Walter look at the work involved in designing an e-commerce site that makes a profit each quarter, while meeting the needs of 42 million users - Don Synstelein of SynFonts shows how he assembled a usable Flash-driven e-commerce site, which enhances his users' experience and protects his copyright. He shows that that, when used properly, Flash can be 100% ok - Adrian Roselli, an IA guy from evolt, writes on how they needed to be on the vanguard of usability and accessibility, compatible with every browser known to man – and yet maintain branding look and feel - Matt Haughey writes of his adventures in constructing Metafilter, a great community site, on no budget. This includes usability testing, usable advertising, and community management

Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself

Molly E. Holzschlag

David Wertheimer

Kelly Braun

Max Gadney

Matthew Haughey

Adrian Roselli

Don Synstelien

Tom Walter

Bruce Lawson

Aimed at Web professionals with HTML experience, discusses concepts including cascade and inheritance, rules and selectors, typography, and boxes.

Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation

Matthew Patterson

Owen Briggs

Steve Champeon

Eric Costello

Content Management Systems (CMS) automate the process of creating, publishing, and updating web site content. They make maintaining and updating the content of a web site easier, giving the content contributors, not just the web team, the means with which to manage their own content. They are usually made up of a front-end editor for inputting content, a back-end system for storing the content, and a template mechanism to get the content onto the web site.

Content Management Systems (Tools of the Trade)

Ellis, James

Addey, Dave

Suh, Phil

Thiemecke, David

XML, the extensible markup language, is now a maturing technology with many selling points, as have been explained in books and on the Web for the past few years. This book takes you past the hype to show you how to use XML in your web development, from client-side use with CSS, XSLT, and scripting in the latest browsers, to basic server-side techniques in various environments, such as ASP and JSP. Its focus is on the practical, all theory being backed up by techniques that are actually used on the Web today.

Practical XML for the Web (Tools of the Trade)

Paul Spencer

Jeff Rafter

Chris Auld

James, Jon

Gudmundsson, Oli Gauti

Kent, Allan

Schiell, Alex

Surguy, Inigo

Forms are an integral part of many web sites, whether they are registration forms, feedback forms, or order forms. However, forms are time consuming for the site user to fill out, and need to be implemented to be as usable as possible, otherwise they can be frustrating and annoying, spoiling the user experience. 
This book takes all the hassle out of implementing forms in whatever way you wish, dealing with client-side forms in HTML and Flash, client- and server-side form validation, and server-side data processing. It provides code samples fully adaptable to your own needs, along with walkthrough tutorials on how they work, and an HTML form element reference. INCLUDES: * Easy to Follow tutorials and reference on building form user interfaces with HTML and Flash * Tips to follow for designing usable forms * Client- and server-side data validation techniques using JavaScript, ASP and PHP * Server-side data processing using ASP and PHP, with Access and MySQL databases * Coverage of .NET Forms * Extensive online support, including fully operational, downloadable code and a gallery of working form examples

Usable Forms for the Web

Chris Ullman

Jon Stephens

Jon James

Creating a usable e-commerce application is a daunting challenge. There is so much to do, from the initial concept, through to designing and coding the application. This leaves a lot of scope for things to go wrong. 
In this book we take all the hassle out of online shopping applications, by showing you how to plan your application, design the user interface and datastore, and code the entire thing. But it doesn't stop there – we provide the complete code for two complete shopping cart applications, customizable for your own needs. 
In this book we cover: 
- Planning an e-commerce application 
- Designing the application, from customer surveys and wireframe models, to UI design and prototyping 
- Designing and implementing the databases that will hold your product and order information 
- Implementing the Product Catalog, Shopping Cart, and Checkout system

Have you ever wished that you could make your web pages look fantastic and professional, as well as having great functionality? Well, look no further. In this book we take you through the basics of web design, looking at using color effectively on sites, visual elements that work, and how to use text effectively, before going on to show how to put these elements together to make a well designed, brilliantly laid out web page. We also compare and contrast graphics formats, look at how to optimize your graphics for best site performance, and review the best tools currently available for producing graphics for the Web, and which to choose to suit your needs best. In this book we cover:  - Effective use of color, visual elements, and text - Professional web page design and layout - The ins and outs of bitmaps and vector graphics, including using Flash, SVG and SMIL - Optimizing web graphics, for better site performance - Includes tutorials on Photoshop/Image Ready, Paint Shop Pro, and Fireworks MX

Web Graphics for Non-Designers

Dave Gibbons

Isaac Forman

Nick Boyce

Software

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