About this product: While there is a plethora of books available that provide tips on Web design, most authors leave a significant gap between the theory and practice--a gap that is left up to the reader to fill. Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed boldly steps into that gap with specific observations and suggestions backed with solid quantitative analysis. This book focuses only on home page design as the most important point of presence for any Web site.
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All this leads up to the showcase element of the book--a systematic deconstruction of 50 of the most popular home pages on the Web. The authors painstakingly pick apart each in an uncompromising autopsy of usability. Each site is graphically analyzed for its use of real estate and summarized with the frankness only found from true experts. Then each section of the home page is bulleted and analyzed for potential improvements.
It's a bold move to offer a critique of industry-standard Web sites such as Yahoo, CNET, and eBay, but the authors have done such a fine job that the designers of those sites will surely make reading this book a high priority. For the rest of us, this work will serve as an invaluable gospel. --Stephen W. Plain
Topics covered: Design guidelines, convention usage, screen real estate, navigation, content presentation, search facilities, links, graphics and animation, advertising, news, customization, and customer feedback.
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About this product: This digital document is an article from Technical Communication, published by Society for Technical Communication on August 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1262 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed. (Book Reviews). Author: Bill Sullivan Publication:Technical Communication (Refereed) Date: August 1, 2002 Publisher: Society for Technical Communication Volume: 49 Issue: 3 Page: 357(3)
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Description: In the last decade, the World Wide Web has developed into a widely used information and communication system. This development has also affected academic institutions. Not only has the number of homepages presenting academic institutions increased; more and more scientists are also producing their own individual homepages. This paper presents the results of two studies in which the contents of psychologists' homepages were investigated. In study 1, a total of 350 homepages maintained by academic psychologists from four European countries (Germany, Austria, Great Britain, and Sweden) were evaluated. In study 2, psychologists from the same four European countries were asked by questionnaire about the contents of their own homepage. In sum, 86 scientists answered the questionnaire. The results of both studies show that information about research activities dominates the contents of psychologists' homepages. The results show too that differences between the four European countries exist. These differences are reported and discussed.
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