What you need to know to create for the web
In my third book I step away from my Web Designer's Idea Book series to take a guided look at how to work with and design for the web. The core mission of this book is to demystify the various technologies and components of the web and enable the designer to effectively embrace the medium.
Much like a painter learning how to master his materials, this book will help you navigate your way through the myriad of technologies on the web and empower you to truly understand how to design effectively for the web.
This book is scheduled to be released in May of 2012.
Who is this book for?
The Designer's Web Handbook is targeted at designers, new and old, that are well versed in the fundamental principals of design, but are struggling to apply them to the web. It’s also for those designers working in the web industry, but are realizing that the methods and design patterns they developed for print don’t directly translate and the results tend to come up short. A sure sign that this book is for you is if you, is if your designs do manage to be built, but they are difficult to use, hard to update and have no sense of flexibility.
This book will guide you through a series of topics all geared at helping the designer embrace the web for it’s strengths, and understand how to navigate its weaknesses. It is only through a more through understanding of these nuances that a designer can fully embrace the web and design for it in the most effective ways.
Why does this matter?
It’s simple; the more you embrace these methods the more successful your web projects will be. Your sites will be cheaper to build, they will have better features, they will easily extend for new content, clients will be happier, your projects will cost less to produce.
It is not by coincidence that the most popular designs, the most successful sites, and the most well paid designers work with the medium, not against it. This book will not only take you through the fundamental guiding principals, but also, it will provide examples of each topic in use in the real world.
At its core, this book is a guiding light geared at disarming the traps of the web and diffusing the complex web of technology that overwhelms many designers.
