Navigating The Web

Author : James Kalbach
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596553784

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Designing Web Navigation by James Kalbach Pdf

Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology-it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them. Ideal for beginning to intermediate web designers, managers, other non-designers, and web development pros looking for another perspective, Designing Web Navigation offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development. This book: Provides the foundations of web navigation and offers a framework for navigation design Paints a broad picture of web navigation and basic human information behavior Demonstrates how navigation reflects brand and affects site credibility Helps you understand the problem you're trying to solve before you set out to design Thoroughly reviews the mechanisms and different types of navigation Explores "information scent" and "information shape" Explains "persuasive" architecture and other design concepts Covers special contexts, such as navigation design for web applications Includes an entire chapter on tagging While Designing Web Navigation focuses on creating navigation systems for large, information-rich sites serving a business purpose, the principles and techniques in the book also apply to small sites. Well researched and cited, this book serves as an excellent reference on the topic, as well as a superb teaching guide. Each chapter ends with suggested reading and a set of questions that offer exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.

Author : Mark Levene
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781118060346

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An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation by Mark Levene Pdf

This book is a second edition, updated and expanded to explain the technologies that help us find information on the web. Search engines and web navigation tools have become ubiquitous in our day to day use of the web as an information source, a tool for commercial transactions and a social computing tool. Moreover, through the mobile web we have access to the web's services when we are on the move. This book demystifies the tools that we use when interacting with the web, and gives the reader a detailed overview of where we are and where we are going in terms of search engine and web navigation technologies.

Author : Richard James Smith,Mark Gibbs,Paul McFedries
Publisher : Indianapolis, Ind. : Sams Pub.
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN : MINN:31951P00357105F

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Navigating the Internet by Richard James Smith,Mark Gibbs,Paul McFedries Pdf

An easy-to-read guide to the Internet--updated, revised with more coverage of the World Wide Web, Mosaic, Netscape, MBone, and loaded with real-life examples. The disk includes a variety of ready-to-run, plug-n-play Internet tools and the entire Internet Gazetteer in electronic format.

Author : Jennifer Fleming
Publisher : O'Reilly Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015047423655

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Web Navigation by Jennifer Fleming Pdf

The CD-ROM to accompany this book is held at the Reserve Desk at 004.678 WEB.

Author : Mario Pérez-Montoro,Lluís Codina
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780081006771

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Navigation Design and SEO for Content-Intensive Websites by Mario Pérez-Montoro,Lluís Codina Pdf

Navigation Design and SEO for Content-Intensive Websites: A Guide for an Efficient Digital Communication presents the characteristics and principal guidelines for the analysis and design of efficient navigation and information access systems on content-intensive websites, such as magazines and other media publications. Furthermore, the book aims to present the tools of information processing, including information architecture (IA) and content categorization systems, so that such designs can ensure a good navigation experience based on the semantic relations between content items. The book also presents best practices in the design of information access systems with regard to their main structures, including search query forms and search result pages. Finally, the book describes the foundations of search engine optimization (SEO), emphasizing SEO oriented to publications focused on communication and the coverage of current affairs, including images and videos. Focuses on the newly emerging and significant sector of content characterized by its use of multimedia: text, image and video Presents comprehensive coverage of sites and their combined information architecture and SEO needs Explores an analysis of existing best practices to offer operational proposals for the development of digital news and current affairs publications Analyzes academic studies by scholars working in this field

Author : Mark Levene,Alexandra Poulovassilis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662108741

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Web Dynamics by Mark Levene,Alexandra Poulovassilis Pdf

The World Wide Web has become a ubiquitous global tool, used for finding infor mation, communicating ideas, carrying out distributed computation and conducting business, learning and science. The Web is highly dynamic in both the content and quantity of the information that it encompasses. In order to fully exploit its enormous potential as a global repository of information, we need to understand how its size, topology and content are evolv ing. This then allows the development of new techniques for locating and retrieving information that are better able to adapt and scale to its change and growth. The Web's users are highly diverse and can access the Web from a variety of devices and interfaces, at different places and times, and for varying purposes. We thus also need techniques for personalising the presentation and content of Web based information depending on how it is being accessed and on the specific user's requirements. As well as being accessed by human users, the Web is also accessed by appli cations. New applications in areas such as e-business, sensor networks, and mobile and ubiquitous computing need to be able to detect and react quickly to events and changes in Web-based information. Traditional approaches using query-based 'pull' of information to find out if events or changes of interest have occurred may not be able to scale to the quantity and frequency of events and changes being generated, and new 'push' -based techniques are needed.

Author : Merlyn Holmes
Publisher : Beginner's Guides (Osborne)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0072192615

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Web Usability and Navigation by Merlyn Holmes Pdf

Make user-centered Web sites; tempt more users to your site; and build useful; dependable navigation tools. --

Author : Paul Gilster
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 047116495X

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The Web Navigator by Paul Gilster Pdf

It's an Internet jungle out there. Now more than ever, you need Paul Gilster, world-renowned Internet expert and author of the bestselling The New Internet Navigator, to give you the background, software know-how, and techniques you'll need to confidently and skillfully navigate the Web. You'll learn how to customize the immense power of the Web to meet your own specific needs and goals. Gilster shows you: How to log on and navigate like an expert How to customize browsers Where to find audio and video plug-ins, add-ons, and helper programs How to most effectively use breakthrough Web technologies. In The Web Navigator, Gilster keeps you right on top of all of the recent changes in the Web, tells you what's out there right now and what's coming in the future. You'll get samples of various Internet sites and candid discussions of providers. You'll receive proven strategies for finding and managing information. You'll find up-to-the-minute instructions on: Accessing and searching with Netscape Navigator Publishing and self-publishing on the Web Electronic commerce and security. Paul Gilster also shares his special insight into what emerging new media technologies such as Java, ActiveX, Shockwave, VRML, RealAudio, and many more can mean to you. Visit our Web site at http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/ Praise for Paul Gilster and The New Internet Navigator... "Paul Gilster gives the tree of knowledge a good shake....Anyone who wants a tutorial that will also serve as an ongoing reference won't do better than The New Internet Navigator." — Major Keary rec.arts.books.reviews. "The nontechnical nature of The New Internet Navigator has something to offer to all levels of readers....This may be the only Internet guide you'll ever need." — infoZine "The 'best of the best'! Very highly recommended." —Online Newsletter "Gilster's tome could appropriately be called, 'The Internet Encyclopedia.' This book is highly recommended for those who are interested in the meat and bones of the Internet." —Boardwatch Magazine. "[A] comprehensive guide to navigating the Net..." —Computerworld

Author : Jennifer Fleming (Owner of Square Circle Solutions)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computer interfaces
ISBN : OCLC:700283555

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Web Navigation by Jennifer Fleming (Owner of Square Circle Solutions) Pdf

Author : Sharon McDonald,Yvonne Waern,Gilbert Cockton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447105152

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People and Computers XIV — Usability or Else! by Sharon McDonald,Yvonne Waern,Gilbert Cockton Pdf

Currently we are at the beginnings of widespread wireless connectivity and ubiquitous computing. The Web is merging with a variety of technologies: cell phones, laptop computers, hand held organisers, information appliances, and GPS and other sensors. The capability for access anytime and anywhere is here. The increasing frequency of cell phone calls at inappropriate times testifies that people no longer can easily control access. Devices can determine where they are located and can make a range of information available to users as well as make users available to others or their devices. We have proposed a general technique that promises to assist in mediating access. It capitalises on advantages afforded by computation(Hollan & Stometta, 1992). We first described the negotiation technique in the context of problems involved in scheduling meetings and then showed that similar issues, which at first may seem unrelated but in fact have much in common, arise in other contexts. One such activity, gaining immediate access, is currently of growing importance because of expanding connectivity via wireless technology. Cell phones and related technologies make it possible to be constantly available for synchronous interaction. At times, this can be advantageous but the associated costs and benefits result in a complex tradeoff space for designers as well as users.

Author : Carola Zwick,Buckhard Schmitz
Publisher : AVA Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-28
Category : Design
ISBN : 288479011X

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Navigation for the Internet and Other Digital Media by Carola Zwick,Buckhard Schmitz Pdf

Navigating around the internet and other digital media can be a daunting and confusing experience. We need the digital equivalent of maps, compasses and threads to find our way about and to remember where we have been. The authors point to what have become de facto standards as well as suggesting new ones in the developing media. The implications for the content of the Internet if the majority of network devices become handheld is also discussed. This book aims to be of use to everyone involved in the planning and designing of websites as well as to students of design, computer science and marketing.

Author : Janet Valade
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781118051757

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PHP and MySQL Web Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies by Janet Valade Pdf

If you want to build dynamic Web sites that encourage users to interact with them, PHP and MySQL are among the best tools you’ll find. PHP is a scripting language designed specifically for use on the Web, while MySQL is a database management system that works with it perfectly. Best of all, they’re free. It’s hard to beat that combination! PHP & MySQL Web Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is kind of one-stop shopping for the information you need to get up and running with these tools and put them to good use. It’s divided into six handy minibooks that cover setting up your environment, PHP programming, using MySQL, security, PHP extensions, and PHP Web applications. They make it easy to create a Web site where visitors can sign on, use shopping carts, complete forms, and do business with your business. It’s easy to find what you need in this handy guide. You’ll discover how to: Find and acquire all the tools you need and set up your development environment Build PHP scripts to make your Web site work Create a MySQL database that visitors can access Summarize and sort data results Design and implement user access control Build a shopping cart application Create extensions that make your site more useful With PHP & MySQL Web Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies by your side, you’ll be a Web site guru before you know it!

Author : Jakob Nielsen,Kara Pernice
Publisher : New Riders
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780321714077

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Eyetracking Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen,Kara Pernice Pdf

Eyetracking Web Usability is based on one of the largest studies of eyetracking usability in existence. Best-selling author Jakob Nielsen and coauthor Kara Pernice used rigorous usability methodology and eyetracking technology to analyze 1.5 million instances where users look at Web sites to understand how the human eyes interact with design. Their findings will help designers, software developers, writers, editors, product managers, and advertisers understand what people see or don’t see, when they look, and why. With their comprehensive three-year study, the authors confirmed many known Web design conventions and the book provides additional insights on those standards. They also discovered important new user behaviors that are revealed here for the first time. Using compelling eye gaze plots and heat maps, Nielsen and Pernice guide the reader through hundreds of examples of eye movements, demonstrating why some designs work and others don’t. They also provide valuable advice for page layout, navigation menus, site elements, image selection, and advertising. This book is essential reading for anyone who is serious about doing business on the Web.

Author : Alan Cooper,Robert Reimann,Dave Cronin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015068829707

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About Face 3 by Alan Cooper,Robert Reimann,Dave Cronin Pdf

Aimed at software developers, this book proposes the creation of a new profession of software design. The examples in the text are updated to reflect new platforms along with additional case studies where appropriate.

Author : Steve Krug
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780321648785

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Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug Pdf

Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. Don't be surprised if it completely changes the way you think about Web design. Three New Chapters! Usability as common courtesy -- Why people really leave Web sites Web Accessibility, CSS, and you -- Making sites usable and accessible Help! My boss wants me to ______. -- Surviving executive design whims "I thought usability was the enemy of design until I read the first edition of this book. Don't Make Me Think! showed me how to put myself in the position of the person who uses my site. After reading it over a couple of hours and putting its ideas to work for the past five years, I can say it has done more to improve my abilities as a Web designer than any other book. In this second edition, Steve Krug adds essential ammunition for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing. If you design, write, program, own, or manage Web sites, you must read this book." -- Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards