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Web Site Graphics: Navigation [Paperback]

Jeff Carlson (Author), Toby Malina (Author), Glenn Fleishman (Author)
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Part of a series of small but excellent showcase books, Web Site Graphics: Navigation features Web sites that excel at moving users through their pages. These sites show alternatives to the now commonplace left-side vertical navigation bar. They include eye-catching horizontal bars, arrays of rollovers, color-coded systems, drop-down menus, scrolling Shockwave bars, simple yet elegant text navigators, and many other methods.

Among the standouts is Kjetil Vatne Graphics + Design, with its vibrantly colored pages and circular site tree. The site has changed since the book was researched (it is now called KVAD V5 [www.kvad.com]) and is even more impressive in its navigational design. Also impressive is the "anti-navigational" site Funny Garbage (www.funnygarbage.com), where random clicking is the foundation of navigational strategy. Frogdesign (www.frogdesign.com) displays a scrolling timeline of the company's history across the bottom of each page. The viewer uses a small slider to control forward and backward motion and a popup menu for a site map.

There are a lot of good ideas in Navigation; the authors have chosen carefully, and they explain which aspects caused each site to be chosen. "Navigation is not just a set of links: it is a way of thinking about and structuring a site so that information, illustrations, or documents always feel like they are within reach, not buried far away or impossible to find."

This is not a how-to book. Rather, it's more like a gallery of Web sites that are so well-designed as to make you sit down and take notice. --Angelynn Grant

Topics covered: screen captures of many Web sites showing innovative uses of navigational techniques in Web design, with captions explaining why each site was chosen and listing artistic credits; an index with the names and addresses of all design firms involved.

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The Web Site Graphics series is a rich collection of successful web site design work selected by designers for designers. Each book in the series focuses on an important facet of graphic design online. Created for both professional and graphic designers new to the web, the Web Site Graphics series offers a complete and affordable resource of web site design inspiration.

Web Site Graphics: Navigation—Learn what makes an interactive site compelling—whether simple buttons and sliders or animated gifs and fly-throughs. This volume features inspiring approaches to navigation created by Web-design trendsetters. From the streamlined and classic to the avant-garde, striking examples of many styles of layout are collected in this unique volume.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Pretty pictures, absolutely no substance, Feb 12 2000
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This review is from: Web Site Graphics: Navigation (Paperback)
If you're looking for design inspiration and you don't care one bit about usability, this may just be the book for you -- it's a glossy collection of various web sites that don't use "traditional navigation" schemes. Each glossy picture comes with a 2-3 sentence description of why the authors' included it.

There is absolutely no statistical, or even anecdotal information as to the success of these designs -- success being determined by sales, leads generation, customer satisfaction, etc. The authors *like* the designs and consider them examples of "thinking outside the box".

This is a book about being cool, not a book about effective design -- making it useless to professional designers who are held accountable for the profitability of the web site, not just how it looks.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent choice of featured sites., Dec 14 1999
This review is from: Web Site Graphics: Navigation (Paperback)
I've looked at many books that just print screen shots of "the best web sites", and IMHO this is the only one worth buying. This is because a) it is really good value for money, and b) a really good editing job has been done so that only some real class web sites are included. Just flipping through the pages you come across so many ideas - Great for website designers. And, I find the very short comments are usually pretty insightful, and draw your attention to the most salient points.

The previous reviewer mentioned that it contains no content about navigation. Well of course not. The title of the book is NOT "Website Navigation", it is "Website Graphics: Navigation" and it is part of a series, the others being "Website Graphics: Typography" and "Website Graphics: Color". But anyway I disagree with the reviewer. You can learn a lot about alternative ways of navigating through websites using this book. Instead of a vertical menu down the left hand side, why not use dials or a street map metaphor. Also there are multiple ways of indicating which page/section the user is in, some of them very creative.

Well done to the editors, you have chosen very good sites. I am currently recommending that my institute's library gets the whole set of three.

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2.0 out of 5 stars The title is wrong., Aug 16 1999
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This review is from: Web Site Graphics: Navigation (Paperback)
In contrast to what the title says, this book is not really about navigation. Go websurfing for a few days, looking for nice "designer" sites, and print the images on nice glossy paper together with a paragraph of meaningless commentary only stating the obvious. Then you have book like this. It does look nice though. If you're looking for some inspiration in graphics design then it's a nice book which doesn't cost very much. But it doesn't even touch the basic principles of website navigation. No usefull info in here.
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