by Mashhoor Al Dubayan
What you will learn:
How to write for the web, and structure your contents in a way that increases its usability and effectiveness.
Prerequisites:
Nothing besides being familiar with the web.
Target Audience:
People who own, manage, design or develop web sites - not just web writers. However, if you’re a web writer (or if you’re involved in web writing), then you’ll benefit most of this book.
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by Mashhoor Al Dubayan
What you will learn:
A plenty of guidelines that will help you improve the usability and accessibility of your website. Most of the book is about usability though.
Prerequisites:
Nothing besides being familiar with the web.
Target Audience:
People who own, manage, design or develop web sites. If you have a good background in usability, then you might not find anything new here.
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by Mashhoor Al Dubayan
What you will learn:
How to make a site look prettier by picking the right design, colors, fonts and images.
Prerequisites:
A good background in Web Design and Photoshop would help, but not necessary (There’s one part of the book though that requires some advanced experience in Photoshop).
Target Audience:
Web Developers who want to make pretty/attractive designs.
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by Mashhoor Al Dubayan
What you will learn:
Almost everything you need to know about Web Usability. “Don’t Make Me Think” teaches you how (and encourages you to) make usable web sites - web sites that won’t force the user to think to figure out how they work, hence the name: don’t make me think.
Prerequisites:
Nothing. Just a brain and common sense.
Target Audience:
Anyone who owns, runs, develops or designs a web site.
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by Mashhoor Al Dubayan
What you will learn:
Defensive Design for the Web contains 40 guidelines that basically revolve around three things:
- Clearly and politely telling your web site’s visitors what to do and/or what to expect.
- Avoiding things that cause frustrations, and providing helpful “help” wherever and whenever they need it.
- Helping your visitors recover from different kinds of errors and dead-ends.
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