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Deliver First Class Websites: 101 Essential Checklists
Deliver First Class Web 101 Essential Checklists is the only organized and easy-to-use compilation of guidelines, checklists and tips for building modern, best-practice Websites. Drawing on dozens of books, studies, and research papers, this book distills not-so-common wisdom into 500 digestible guidelines & checkpoints that can be quickly applied to any Web Development project. Organized by chapter, the guidelines cover everything from color usage & navigation, to accessibility, usability and webpage architecture. By following all the guidelines, you will develop 100% best-practice Websites, ensuring their projects are built "the right way" from the start. This means the final Website will As a bonus, all the checklists are downloadable in PDF format, so you can print them out and use them over and over again in all your Web Development projects. From the
Want to learn how to make your web sites usable and accessible? Want to ensure that your sites meet current best practice, without spending hours trawling through incomprehensible specifications and recommendations from dozens of different books, research papers, and web sites? Want to make sure that the sites you build are "right the first time," requiring no costly redevelopments?
Look no Deliver First Class Web 101 Essential Checklists is a comprehensive coverage of current best practice with over 100 checklists, containing over 500 individual checkpoints that cover areas such as design, usability, project management, SEO and much, much more.
Deliver First Class Web 101 Essential Checklists is a complete compendium of best practices drawn from the author's own experience and dozens of expert third-party references. It's the ultimate roadmap for web developers, project managers, and anyone involved in the process of building web sites. Each checkpoint is accompanied by an explanation and references as required, making this the most comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to delivering high quality web sites. Free access is provided to downloadable PDF versions of the checklists-streamlined to contain the checkpoints only, without explanations or references-for you to print and use in your own web projects. Who Should Read This Book?
This book is ideal for anyone involved in the process of building web sites. Whether you're a web developer, a project manager, or you're looking to commission someone to build web sites for you, the information contained in these checklists will prove invaluable. You don't need any technical experience to benefit from this book. Editorial Reviews
"This book is highly recommended for all web designers and developers. Depending on the level of knowledge that each of us possesses, we may get a lot or a little from this book, but whatever we end up with will have been worth our time and money." - BlogCritics.org
"It neatly consolidates a considerable amount of worthy advice culled from the author's research and decade in the trenches of the Internet." - Slashdot.org
"This is a very useful book for anyone who is planning a new site, managing others who are responsible for building a site, or bringing an older site up to current best practices." - Virgina DeBolt (webteacher.ws)
Want to learn how to make your web sites usable and accessible? Want to ensure that your sites meet current best practice, without spending hours trawling through incomprehensible specifications and recommendations from dozens of different books, research papers, and web sites? Want to make sure that the sites you build are "right the first time," requiring no costly redevelopments?
Look no Deliver First Class Web 101 Essential Checklists is a comprehensive coverage of current best practice with over 100 checklists, containing over 500 individual checkpoints that cover areas such as design, usability, project management, SEO and much, much more.
Deliver First Class Web 101 Essential Checklists is a complete compendium of best practices drawn from the author's own experience and dozens of expert third-party references. It's the ultimate roadmap for web developers, project managers, and anyone involved in the process of building web sites. Each checkpoint is accompanied by an explanation and references as required, making this the most comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to delivering high quality web sites. Free access is provided to downloadable PDF versions of the checklists-streamlined to contain the checkpoints only, without explanations or references-for you to print and use in your own web projects. Who Should Read This Book?
This book is ideal for anyone involved in the process of building web sites. Whether you're a web developer, a project manager, or you're looking to commission someone to build web sites for you, the information contained in these checklists will prove invaluable. You don't need any technical experience to benefit from this book. Editorial Reviews
"This book is highly recommended for all web designers and developers. Depending on the level of knowledge that each of us possesses, we may get a lot or a little from this book, but whatever we end up with will have been worth our time and money." - BlogCritics.org
"It neatly consolidates a considerable amount of worthy advice culled from the author's research and decade in the trenches of the Internet." - Slashdot.org
"This is a very useful book for anyone who is planning a new site, managing others who are responsible for building a site, or bringing an older site up to current best practices." - Virgina DeBolt (webteacher.ws)
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First published July 10, 2006
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July 17, 2008
If you're new to web dev, i can see this would be a 5 star book, though if you are new, after reading this book and its tedious "work-flow" and large checklists, you may not want to be a web developer anymore!
The good news is, a lot of the beginning chapters are good for you to know but are items you should become adept at pushing off entirely on the client and/or project manager. Make all the goals, audience, architecture and core content stuff part of your requirements as a web developer, for getting started project. (if your client looks lost you can give them some handy checklists to get started!) If they don't deliver exactly what you need, warn them they're not following your requirements and additional fees and billable hours may come into play if this causes the project to "creep out of scope" and you're covered.
As a creative and generally "scattered" person, I depend on the "how-to" and development checklists I've been painstakingly putting together over the years, so this was a nice reference to go through and make sure my checklists were up to snuff. I was able to add a few things I hadn't yet though of (aka: been bitten in the butt with yet). Most importantly, I was able to beef out the "to-do"/checklists I hand out to my clients so they can provide me with what I need to get going so all I have to do is focus on a design that will accommodate their needs.
The good news is, a lot of the beginning chapters are good for you to know but are items you should become adept at pushing off entirely on the client and/or project manager. Make all the goals, audience, architecture and core content stuff part of your requirements as a web developer, for getting started project. (if your client looks lost you can give them some handy checklists to get started!) If they don't deliver exactly what you need, warn them they're not following your requirements and additional fees and billable hours may come into play if this causes the project to "creep out of scope" and you're covered.
As a creative and generally "scattered" person, I depend on the "how-to" and development checklists I've been painstakingly putting together over the years, so this was a nice reference to go through and make sure my checklists were up to snuff. I was able to add a few things I hadn't yet though of (aka: been bitten in the butt with yet). Most importantly, I was able to beef out the "to-do"/checklists I hand out to my clients so they can provide me with what I need to get going so all I have to do is focus on a design that will accommodate their needs.
April 15, 2008
Deliver First Class Websites is one of hundreds of books on website design. Like the majority of these books (the good ones anyway), Deliver First Class Websites takes the reader step by step through web design from planning and preparing content through design and creating clean code to testing and launching the website. In each section, the author even includes handy checklists so that the web designer can assure that he or she has completed each step in the process.
Although I have read and reviewed countless books on web design, Deliver First Class Websites stood out. Most books of this type approach web design from a purely technological point of view and focus mainly on the code needed to create a good website. I found that this book took a slightly different approach. The goal of a good website as defined by this author was one with good accessibility and flow. Often website designers, and writers of website design books, completely forget that websites are made for people. If these people get frustrated when they can't access information, they will simply leave your site. Thus, good flow and accessibility is vital to a successful website.
Although I have read and reviewed countless books on web design, Deliver First Class Websites stood out. Most books of this type approach web design from a purely technological point of view and focus mainly on the code needed to create a good website. I found that this book took a slightly different approach. The goal of a good website as defined by this author was one with good accessibility and flow. Often website designers, and writers of website design books, completely forget that websites are made for people. If these people get frustrated when they can't access information, they will simply leave your site. Thus, good flow and accessibility is vital to a successful website.
July 17, 2008
This book is a little too good; there are so many lists and so many tips and suggestions that it's hard to know where to look when you need to refer to it. Any Web site built to the specifications here would be absolutely perfect. But the time it would take to build such a site USING this specification would make it an impossible project.
As a guide, this book is very helpful; as a reference it is very useful. As a checklist of (presumably) essential elements, however, it is unweildy.
It's still on my shelf though, and I have referred to it a few times to get a different perspective.
As a guide, this book is very helpful; as a reference it is very useful. As a checklist of (presumably) essential elements, however, it is unweildy.
It's still on my shelf though, and I have referred to it a few times to get a different perspective.
August 22, 2010
It's a decent book. Although there were a lot more points and checklists than I expected, the book was informative and right to the point.
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June 24, 2010
A complex but helpful guide for people hiring a web designer to ask the right questions. Detailed guide to web designers themselves.
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January 13, 2018A little dated (2006), but comprehensive. It's only missing a section on web analytics.
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