A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web is now available as a paperback for just £29. If you prefer, you can still buy the PDF version as well, starting at just £12.
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A simple approach to applying graphic design to modern web design
What is the book about?
A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design. Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great one.
Who should read this book?
Anyone who fancies a great read! No, seriously, if you're a designer, developer, or content producer, reading A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web will enrich your website design and plug the holes in your design knowledge.
Download a Sample
Not sold yet? Download a sample (PDF 548KB). Contains cover artwork, Table of Contents, and several sample pages.
Coming Soon…
Designing Grid Systems for the Web by Mark Boulton
Grid Systems have been used in print design, architecture and interior design for generations. Now, with the advent of the World Wide Web, the same rules of grid system composition and usage no longer apply. Content is viewed in many ways; from RSS feeds, to email. Content is viewed on many devices; from mobile phones to laptops. Users can manipulate the browser, they can remove content, resize the canvas, resize the typefaces. A designer is no longer in control of this presentation.
Designing Grid Systems for the Web is a practical guide to designing visual information structures for the web.
Designing Grid Systems for the Web will be published in 2010.
Designing the Invisible by Robert Mills
Invisible communication is happening all around us, through body language, gestures, cues for responses and conversations. Messages and understandings are subliminally represented via this invisible communication. It is also happening in the media and on the web.
Designing the Invisible will help to break down the barriers surrounding methods of invisible communication on the web, making visible the power and usefulness of language and signs, explaining narrative and how it can be applied to the web, and by providing a deeper understanding of designing to cultural conventions.
Designing the Invisible will be published in 2010.