WEB STYLE GUIDE BASIC DESIGN PRINCIPALS FOR CREATING WEB SITES

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1997), these books comprise a large but largely redundant library of Web design material. The Web Style Guide acknowledges these earlier guides by building …

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WEB STYLE GUIDE: BASIC DESIGN PRINCIPALS FOR CREATING WEB
SITES / Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton.–New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
March 1999.–176 p.: ill.–ISBN 0-300-07674-6 (cl., alk. paper), ISBN 0-300-07675-4
(pa., alk. paper): $35.00 (cl.), $14.95 (pa.).
Yale University Press has issued a practical and intelligent guide to designing
informational Web pages. Building on the maturity of WWW users and information
professionals of the late 90s, the authors have written a work that outlines, in serious,
professional (and not overly technical) language, successful Web page design. In a
crowded field of competitors, this is no small accomplishment.
The recent literature on Web design is extensive. Elements of Web Design by Darcy
DiNucci (Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 1998), Web by Design: The Complete Guide by
Molly E. Holzsclag, Human Factors and Web Development edited by Chris Forsythe,
Eric Grose, and Julie Ratner (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998) and my
favorite, Information architecture for the World Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter
Morville (Sebastopol, CA : O’Reilly, 1998) are four other good, if similar, books
published in 1998. Together…