although Web Usability Has Received Lots Of Hype, Especially During The Dot-com Meltdown, The Focus Has Been Mostly On Technical Issues. Usability Experts Stress The Pitfalls Of Frames And Too Many Images On Web Pages. They Recommend Editing Out Unnecessary Words And Writing In A Non-linear Style-all Valuable Advice, Of Course. But Less Frequently Do They Highlight The Importance Of The Visual Presentation Of Web Pages. The Web Is A Communication Medium That Does Most Of Its Talking Visually. What You See On A Web Page Tells You What You Might Find Within The Site, How To Get There, And Why It Might Interest You-not To Mention The Instinctive Emotional Response That Shapes Your Web Experience. As A Result, Web Usability Issues Are Communication Issues. Easy-to-use Sites Are Those That Communicate Quickly And Effectively. Site-seeing Takes A Fresh Approach To Web Usability By Applying Visual Communication Principles And Decision-making To Web Design. Specifically, Readers Will Learn The Key Concepts Behind Visual Organization, Look And Feel, Technical Considerations, And Clear Planning That Stem From Audience Awareness. Through Numerous, Full-color Examples Author Luke Wroblewski Deconstructs The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Web Design. The Visual Presentation Of A Site Does More Than Merely Making It Pretty. It Organizes Information According To Function. It Creates Distinct And Appropriate Personalities. It Provides Emotional Impact And Attachment. In Short, It Engages The Audience-and Keeps Them Coming Back. "Usability" has become the watchword of contemporary Web design, and with good reason. But until now, books on Web usability have focused chiefly on response times, compatibility, and other technical matters, providing only limited guidance on design issues. This book takes Web usability a step further -- and shows how good visual design can make a site not just usable, but user-friendly. Using hundreds of real-world Web examples, interface expert Luke Wroblewski explains how to enhance usability by applying the principles of visual communications to site design. Good visual design, he demonstrates, can make a site's organization crystal clear -- and convey its personality or "attitude" in an instant. Offering lots of specific design recommendations for text, links, images, navigation, forms, home pages, dynamic content, and Web services, Site-Seeing delivers the insights and advice you need to boost a site's visual appeal -- and take Web usability to the next level. I found the book "Site-Seeing" to be one of the most accurate & inspiring books I've ever read. The concepts will improve your work and can be applied beyond your career. Nice job Luke. No other book I found has covered these concepts as comprehensively as you did; therefore, I highly recommend this to everyone. Charles Embling The Web is a means to communicate, and whenever you're communicating, you need to know what you're saying, to whom, and how.
