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Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed View Larger Image | Jakob Nielsen, Marie Tahir
New Riders Publishing, Paperback, Published November 2001, 315 pages, ISBN 073571102X | List Price: $50.00
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Table
of Contents
Preface.
The Role of the Homepage. The Organization of This Book. Your Action Items.
The Companion Web Pages.
Homepage
Guidelines.
What's Not in These Guidelines. The Guidelines. Communicating the Site's Purpose.
Communicating Information About Your Company. Content Writing. Revealing Content
Through Examples. Archives and Accessing Past Content. Links. Navigation. Search.
Tools and Task Shortcuts. Graphics and Animation. Graphic Design. UI Widgets.
Window Titles. URLs. News and Press Releases. Popup Windows and Staging Pages.
Advertising. Welcomes. Communicating Technical Problems and Handling Emergencies.
Credits. Page Reload and Refresh. Customization. Gathering Customer Data. Fostering
Community. Dates and Times. Stock Quotes and Displaying Numbers. Homepage Design
Conventions.
Homepage
Design Statistics.
Download Time. Basic Page Layout. Fundamental Page Design Elements. Navigation.
Frequent Features. Graphics and Multimedia. Advertising. Typography. Recommended
Homepage Design.
About www.about.com.
Accenture
www.accenture.com.
Amazon
www.amazon.com.
The Art
Institute of Chicago www.artic.edu.
Asia Cuisine
www.asiacuisine.com.sg.
Barnes
& Noble www.bn.com.
BBC Online
www.bbc.co.uk.
Boeing
www.boeing.com.
CDNOW www.cdnow.com.
Citigroup
www.citigroup.com.
CNET www.cnet.com.
CNNfn cnnfn.cnn.com.
Coles www.coles.com.au.
DIRECTV
www.directv.com.
Disney
www.disney.com.
Drugstore
www.drugstore.com.
eBay www.ebay.com.
eMagazineshop
www.emagazineshop.com.
ESPN www.espn.com.
ExxonMobil
www.exxon.mobil.com.
FedEx www.fedex.com/us.
Federal
Highway Administration www.fhwa.dot.gov.
Florida
Department of Revenue http://www.sun6.dms.state.fl.us/dor.
Ford Motor
Company www.ford.com.
Gateway
www.gateway.com.
General
Electric www.ge.com.
General
Motors www.gm.com.
Global
Sources www.globalsources.com.
IBM www.ibm.com.
James Devaney
Fuel Company www.jamesdevaneyfuel.com.
JobMagic
www.jobmagic.net.
Learn2
www.learn2.com.
Microsoft
www.microsoft.com.
MotherNature
www.mothernature.com.
MTV www.mtv.com.
NewScientist
www.newscientist.com.
NewsNow
www.newsnow.co.uk.
PBS www.pbs.org.
Petsmart
www.petsmart.com.
Philip
Morris www.philipmorris.com.
PlanetRx
www.planetrx.com.
Red Herring
www.redherring.com.
Slusser's
Green Thumb www.slussers.com.
Southwest
www.southwest.com.
Ticketmaster
www.ticketmaster.com.
Travelocity
www.travelocity.com.
USA Today
www.usatoday.com.
Victoria's
Secret www.victoriassecret.com.
Wal-Mart
www.walmart.com.
Yahoo!
www.yahoo.com.
Appendix.
Index.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Jun 18, 2002 Paul from Boston, MA, USA
The definitive guide to home page design
The value of this book comes from the sheer volume of insight it contains: Jakob and Marie leave no stone unturned in enumarting all the things that make for well-designed home pages.
A few downsides: - The home page reviews are comprehensive, but the "problems" the authors find get somewhat repetitive after a while -- a testament of sorts to how many different designers make the same "mistakes" (mistakes according to the authors, of course) In fact, after reading through about 20 reviews I was able to find more than half of the "problems" before reading the review (simply by looking at the screnshots). - Another thing the authors could have done to make the reviews more useful: separate serious problems from trivial ones instead of listing them all in a single list.
Conclusion: While the book does have its quirks, it is a solid reference overall and will make a great addition to any web designer's library, much like my own book, available freely at paulgokin dot com.
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