Reviews & Links

by raphael | Dominique Voynet, a former minister of Environment and Equipment, is standing for the leftist Green party's in the French presidential election coming up at the end of April. Her campaign site, voynet2007.fr, seems to break an exceptionally high number of basic and seemingly well-accepted usability and content design guidelines. Read More »

by notabene | You want to teach software to users? Here's one short, straight-to-the-point book that will help you do the trick and learn how to efficiently prepare software training — or, as web professionals, technical training for other web developers. Read More »

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 »