[WEB4LIB] Nielsen's new book

[Dennis VanArsdale]

What did the title turn out to be?
iPage has the listing as "Designing excellent websites", with a 
cover picturing the title as "Designing websites with authority", and 
you have "Designing web usability" all under the same ISBN.

BTW: everyone please join my campaign to have capital 
punishment made automatic and mandatory for publishers who 
changes titles after the first announcement... >;-)
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Date sent:      	Mon, 3 Jan 2000 14:13:23 -0800 (PST)
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From:           	"Thomas Dowling" <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
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Subject:        	[WEB4LIB] Nielsen's new book

> Jakob Nielsen's useit.com site gets mentioned occasionally here, as do
> some of his specific AlertBox columns.  You should be aware that he has
> just come out with a new book (it was supposed to be out in mid-December,
> but there were some production problems).  I've only had a chance to skim
> through it, but this is already my "If you can only buy one web book this
> year..." recommendation.
> 
>   Author: Nielsen, Jakob, 1957-
>   Title: Designing web usability
>   Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : New Riders, c2000
>   ISBN: 156205810X
> 
> If you haven't read any of his articles, you should know that Nielsen
> simply knows a *lot* about usability in interface design and testing, he
> insists on usability over pointless flashiness, and on almost any page of
> the book he not only gives good advice, but also explains the reasons for
> that advice.  For example, his "Frames: Just Say No" section is followed
> by the four concepts that determine what a "page" is, all of which are
> broken by frames, a handful of usability barriers erected by frames, and
> what exceptions there might be for a no-frames rule.
> 
> The book includes a ton of screenshots of real-world sites for
> illustration--both good examples and bad examples--and addresses not just
> page-writing techniques, but writing style and site design.  The book
> itself is also beautifully designed, and by the way has the most thorough
> colophon I've ever seen.  :-)
> 
> (Also by the way, I've been trying to clean up dead links in Libweb, and I
> can say that a lot of us need to read the "Supporting Old URLs" section.
> Far too many libraries have changed their URLs in trivial, dumb ways and
> have left nothing behind except a 404 Not Found or, worse, a 403 Forbidden
> message.)
> 
> 
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
> 
> 


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