... images and then the buttons on the navigation bar at the top of the page to see the dropdown menus. Click the upper left image of the tree bark to navigate tothe Texture page.3. Note the animation ... of the thumbnail images flying onto the filmstrip as the page loads. Mouse over the thumbnails to see the button rollover effect, and then click the thumbnails to display large versions of their ... either side of the flower images to cycle through the slide show. Click the fauna button on the navbar to navigate tothe Fauna Scrap Book page.6. Note how the scrap book images position themselves...
... xv2000 121 The year web standards broke, 1 121 The year web standards broke, 2 122 The year web standards broke, 3 122 The year the bubble burst 1222001 1225 The Obligatory Glossary 123 Web Lingo ... 23 Web Agnosticism 23Open Standards—They’re Not Just for Geeks Anymore 27Point #1: TheWeb Is Platform-Agnostic 27Point #2: TheWeb Is Device-Independent 29Point #3: TheWeb Is Held Together ... pro-vided technical editing on the topics of XML, XHTML, and other web- related topics and was the de-velopment editor for Jeff Veen’s recent bestseller, The Art and Science of Web Design, published by...
... good web designers to get their work done. The Populi program was designed to close theweb talent gap by trainingtraditional designers in the ways of the Web. Until ithe Populi programcomes to ... performing these tasks on the World Wide Web (the Web, to its friends). If you’ve picked up this book, you’re either doing the work already, thinking of migrating tothe field, or considering adding web ... corporate web sphere, personal sites go offline when their cre-ators get bored or they move to a new location, and the creator neglects to leave a forwarding address. There are as many scenarios as there...
... languages(www.amazon.com). They can post their opinions to message boards(www.metafilter.com). If the designer has given them the option, they maychange the background colors to suit their mood (www.camworld.com). ... what theWeb can be.There is stupidity (and there is a lot of it). And then there is innovation andcreative rule-breaking that sometimes leads to greatness.11Taking Your Talent tothe Web 03 ... language to serve their aesthetic needs.Netscape (now AOL) joined web designers in extending HTML beyond itscreators’ intentions. Initially, theWeb was a one-horse town. If you wanted to design...
... levels and stored as a series of related files on the web server. When the visitor’s browser requests the file, the server checks to determine the visitor’s connection speed and responds with the appropri-ately ... tothe Web Figure 2.6An embedded Quick-Time video at The Ad Store’s website. QuickTimestreams the video,enabling it to begin play-ing before the file hasfully downloaded. In thisway, the ... before accessing content. The datais then stored on a cookie on the visitor’s hard drive, allowing the user to return tothe site without having to undergo the tedious log-in processeach time....
... use of the screen. In Windows, room is left at the bottom for the task bar, while the top of the screen is taken up withbrowser chrome (the buttons and text entry fields that allow users to nav-igate ... going to perform this exercise any-way.) The goal is to provide a site that seems to naturally fit each visitor’smonitor. This makes the visitor feel right at home, thereby encouraging her to spend ... already sitting on the hard drive, they load almost instantly.That’s all well and good for theweb user, but how does it apply tothe web designer’s job? The answer is simple: The more we reuse...
... long way toward simulating the effect of the “touch.”For instance, when you move your mouse over or press the buttons atwww.k10k.net, they seem to respond to your touch—like buttons in the realworld. ... that truth may be. The honesty of these stories enables the sto-ryteller to get well and his listeners to identify with the problem his storydemonstrates. The prototype web interface parallels ... Mac to PC gamma whether you’re working in Photoshop, using abrowser, or simply have the kooky urge to push a Command key in the mid-dle of a slow day. The second solution is to download the...
... designers and art directors take their talent tothe Web, their consummate understanding of the power of the image would seem to position them as the ideal architects of the sites they design. After ... customers rather than reas-suring them that they’ve come tothe right place. Good web design plunges the visitor into the exact content appropriate for the most efficient (andpersonal) use of the ... visitors from the lobby tothe elevator bank. Subtlevisual hints cue a building’s visitors as to which areas of an office are open to the public, and which are private. Folks can find their way to...
... visiting the resulting sites, your client and you can toast yoursuperiority tothe rest of humanity and then hurry on tothe next failure.When bad web designers die and go to Hell, they will ... easier for them to decide where they want to go. Hitting them with ten or more choices makes their next move harder to predict—for them and for you. Confuse them enough, and it becomeseasier to predict ... enough to guide visitors to main areas of the site but notenough to help those seeking one-click access to various client/vendor suc-cess stories. The icon-driven menu on the right ignores the...
... Your Talent tothe Web Figure 3.19What’s the “best” place for navigational menus?That’s up tothe web designer. Caffe Mocharuns its menu bar horizontally across the middle of the page(www.caffemocha.com).05 ... Well-designed sites cue the visitor to her location within the site’s hierarchy. For instance, if the visitor is within the Breeds section of the cat site, the Breeds item in the menu bar may be highlighted ... through the chaos of the burgeoning Internet by enabling cit-izens to actually find things. This ability to find things brings value to the Net and will be an invaluable aspect of the coming Web. ...
... rather small, like Japan, though the implications of XHTML arerather large, like China. The Document Object Model (DOM) is a web standard that lets these otherstandards “talk to each other” to ... in the hopesthat thousands of programmers around the world will join together to cre-ate a newer, better version of the Netscape browser. The open source proj-ect for the Netscape Navigator ... Olsen, forms TheWeb Standards Project (WaSP) atwww.webstandards.org. The group hopes to persuade browser makers to support common standards so theWeb can evolve rationally. The W3C, which...
... IBM’swebsite (www.ibm.com)succeed in their quest to translate the IBM brand to the Web? Front-pagegraphics tell only part of the story. The site’s func-tional performance tells the rest. Web ... life: Make the logobigger. Use the client’s color palette.But on a deeper level, theweb designer doesn’t merely “use the client’s col-ors” and slap the client’s logo on a web page. Theweb designer ... old-schoolwebmasters now call themselves systems administrators, network engi-neers, database administrators, and so forth, leaving the webmastermoniker tothe temp who answers email about the site....
... essentialthroughout the process. If the client does not trust theweb designer in the beginning of the cycle, the project will begin to self-destruct further down the line. 152WHO: Riding the Project ... want the logo bigger. They still prefer the obvious tothe original. They still know justenough to be dangerous to themselves and the project.Identify color compsYou’ve finally determined the ... up to snuff. You may need to budget for a good shooter,conversion from photography to digital images, and a database to store andserve the relevant images.155Taking Your Talent tothe Web 10...
... beyond. The communication travels both ways. At times the technologist willexplain intentions or limitations totheweb designer; at other times the web designer calls the shots. Web designers ... viewed theweb designer as a species of magician.They knew they had to have a web presence, whatever that meant, and theyfelt that you held their fate in your hands. Not only were they eager to approve ... custom publishing tool enabling them to addfresh content tothe mix without befouling the site. Alternatively, instead of providing clients with a custom publishing tool,you might hook them...
... Navigator, Opera,and iCab. The table is used not to present tabular data (such as the con-tents of a spreadsheet) but rather to hold images in place. Setting the bor-der to “0” disguises the ... </p> before starting the image <IMG> tag, the browser has to guess whether you intend the image to be part of the para-graph or to follow it. Depending on what the browser guesses, your ... address on the Web) , its file size, how many colors it contains, and whether or not ituses transparency. Click the link beside each image, and the image will loadin the bottom of the window. The way...