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It is intended to help you, the reader, understand the considerations that web designers make when developing successful websites. It's the balance among design, usability, and return on investment that makes a website truly great. Topics covered in Above the Fold include: What makes web design unique The history of web design Anatomy of a web page White space and grid use in web design The elements of web design: color, texture, imagery, scale, depth, animation, and variability Web typography, including web-safe type, images of type, and font replacement and embedding Web project planning Information architecture, including site maps, wireframes, and user flow diagrams The elements of usability: navigation, breadcrumbs, links, search, submission forms, and error messaging Search engine optimization Online marketing, including banner ads, viral and social marketing, on-site marketing, and email marketing Web statistics and analysis.

In recent years, web designers, too, have come to discover the remarkable power that grid-based design can afford in creating intuitive, immersive, and beautiful user experiences.

Ordering Disorder delivers a definitive take on grids and the Web. It provides both the big ideas and the brass-tacks techniques of grid-based design. Readers are sure to come away with a keen understanding of the power of grids, as well as the design tools needed to implement them for the World Wide Web. Khoi Vinh is internationally recognized for bringing the tried-and-true principles of the typographic grid to the World Wide Web.

He writes and lectures widely on design, technology, and culture, and has published the popular blog Subtraction. More information at grids. Upload eBook. Privacy Policy. New eBooks. Search Engine. The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is the ideal book for people who can build websites, but are seeking the skills and knowledge to visually enhance their sites. This book will teach you how to:Understand what makes "good design," from discovery through to implementationUse color effectively, develop color schemes, and create a paletteCreate pleasing layouts using grids, the rule of thirds, and symmetryEmploy textures: lines, points, shapes, volumes, and depthApply typography to make ordinary designs look greatChoose, edit, and position effective imageryAnd lots more Like anything on the net, a few of the references are dated - there's no way for anyone to prevent that - but the context of the content makes it easy to google a clear example of what he's pointing out.

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This book is post-it compliant bookshelf certified for years of future reference! Excellent book. Good coverage of all aspects web design with plenty of illustrative examples. Design has always been such a mystery to me. I can see when it looks good - but I never knew how to make it happen.

This book helps A LOT!