Constructing Usable Web Menus

by Jody Kerr, Jon Stephens, Dave Gibbons, et al.

When developing a web site, one of the most important things to consider is the navigation menu, to allow your users to find their way around it. It needs to usable, informative, and well implemented,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590591860
• ISBN13: 9781590591864
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.3"

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I was a Technical Reviewer on this book. You might feel that I would be biased in favour of the book, however, I have a good overview of the content of the book, ands just want to give you a fair idea of what it's about. Usability is something that all of us as web developers have to deal with day in and day out. With the dawn of every new day in this industry, we are forced to realize thats it's becoming more of a people issue and less of a technology issue. On any web resource, the menu ultimtely decides whether or not its going to be a killer application. This book gives you everything you need to build great usable menus. What I liked about this book is that it's not tied down to any technology. It has something for everyone, and the chances are that you will end up using someof the alternatives that it offers. For example, it has 12 common sense usability rules to follow to make sure you're on the right track, a great Flash menus tutorial that shows how to populate a Flash menu from XML using PHP, tons of great JavaScript/DHTML menu examples, and advanced addons to these menus, involving dynamic population of HTML menus using PHP/ASP, from XML and SQL Server/MySQL - a dynamic approach to menus aking them more scalable, and easier maintained. "Usable Web Menus" is one book which helps you build great menus right off the shelf. I wouldn't miss this book for anything. Do buy a copy for yourself, I assure you won't regret it.