Reviews & Links

by branko | Contingency design lets you take all those things into account that can happen when real users start visiting your website. Defensive Design for the Web is a book that shows you in a clear and concise way what can go wrong and how to turn that to your advantage. Read More »

by 4serendipity | Andy King's recent book collects, outlines, and evaluates a large number of methods and techniques to make your sites perform better. Read More »

by www_richardinfo_com | One of the challenges a webmaster faces when designing a site, is getting it well-placed in the search-engines. There is many a site stuck with an ugly Google listing, because the designer didn't realise search-engines don't use Javascript, or cookies, for instance. Poodle Predictor can help. Read More »

by aardvark | Safari's the neat-o new quick browser for OSX that runs off the Konqueror guts and impresses the heck outta your neighbors. Read More »

by spinhead | If you're ready to cross over to the world of cascading style sheets, or if you know the basics but want a better grasp of the overall picture and the practical details, authors Owen Briggs, Steve Champeon, Eric Costello, and Matt Patterson have done an excellent job of showing the way. Read More »

by mantruc | This is a great book for all practitioners of Information Architecture. It doesn't matter if you are new to the discipline or an experienced architect, you'll still learn lots of useful stuff from Christina. The traditional subjects of IA are presented in a refreshing point of view, and it explains subjects that nobody before had revealed, with clarity and detail. It's also very fun to read. Read More »

by beltrini | This is not a technical how-to book. It is a concise, lucidly written guide to business strategies, targeted at the so-called “geeks” who comprise a significant portion of the web development workforce. Author, Bob Schmidt is an advertising industry veteran, with over two decades experience, who has bridged the gap to online marketing and development. Read More »

by daniel_bazac | I know what you're thinking: Google gives you such accurate results that you don't need any other search tool. Well, let's see about that. Read More »

by mantruc | The central problem of this study is presented in the first paragraph of the introduction: The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensional; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland? Read More »

by aardvark | Book review of the new glasshaus title, Usable Web Menus, authored by Andy Beaumont, Dave Gibbons, Jody Kerr, and Jon Stephens. Read More »