by Andrew White (Author), Michael Rees (Author), Bebo White (Author)
Appropriate for advanced Internet/World Wide Web courses; assumes some background in the web/internet technologies.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: 1
Publisher: Prentice Hall This practical, hands-on learning system walks you step-by-step through every issue associated with successful Web user interface design. Start by reviewing the fundamentals of hypertext, understanding the role of document markup, and how hypertext functions on the World Wide Web. Review each leading methodology for organizing and architecting sites, including the Information Structure approach, the Relationship Management Methodology, and Information Mapping. Discover the key principles of Human-Computer Interaction, and learn how to implement them successfully, to build Web interfaces users will intuitively understand and welcome. Finally, review your options for multimedia on the Web, understand the Web's limitations as a multimedia delivery vehicle, and learn how to manage the tradeoffs to gain as many of the benefits of multimedia as possible. This book is part of Prentice Hall's Advanced Web Site Architecture Series: user-friendly, interactive workbooks with the in-depth knowledge Web professionals need to deliver advanced solutions, backed with a Web site containing sample code and exercises.
Published: 24 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 0130858978
ISBN 13: 9780130858979
Book Overview:
MICHAEL REES (PhD, FBCS, MACS, Ceng) is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Bond University in Australia. He has over thirty years of teaching experience in programming, operating systems, human-computer interaction, electronic publishing and the Internet. He is co-author of two previous books (Text Processing with troff and Practical Compiling with Pascal-S.
ANDREW WHITE is the Webmaster at Secure Computing, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN. He has been doing Web consulting and design for the past six years. Among his current interests is the development of Web-based games.
BEBO WHITE is a computational physicist and Computing Information Systems Analyst at SLAC. He has written and lectured extensively on Web technology.