Roger Black calls upon his over 20 years of print design work for newspapers and magazines to show how traditional design principles still apply in the online world. Using a unique layout style and many photographs of designs that work in printed products and Web sites, the book gives readers as much of a multi-channel experience as is possible in the print media. The author and his colleagues from the Interactive Bureau, a Web site design company, supply numerous quotes throughout the book-from thoughtful insights about the future of the Internet to tips and techniques for Web design. As one accustomed to thinking in terms of content, but not necessarily design, I found this book a very refreshing change in perspective. Black certainly agrees that content is important, but he considers design as content, something I hadn't acknowledged before.
Good design means content.
Good design means good surfing, exploring, gathering. If you are at all involved in Web design and don't have a graphics arts background, you should have a look at this book. You will certainly learn more about good design from it than from looking at the majority of Web sites that exist today. It is extremely difficult to make a good printed guide to Internet resources. The book lists 1,282 Internet resources, sorted into chapters based on broad topics, such as Business and Economics, Congress, Military, Environment, etc., including separate chapters for International and State Government information.