Deliver first class web sites: 101 essential checklists

Shirley Kaiser

SitePoint, Jul 17, 2006 - Computers - 331 pages

"Deliver First Class Web Sites: 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 be: Cross-browser & Cross-platform compatible Easy to update & maintain Usable by even novice Internet Users Accessible to disabled visitors Search-engine friendly

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 Publisher: 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 further: Deliver First Class Web Sites: 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, SEOand much, much more. Deliver First Class Web Sites: 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)

What people are saying

Review: Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists

User Review  - Leslie - Goodreads

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 ...

Review: Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists

User Review  - Sebah Al-Ali - Goodreads

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. -- -Site map -in , add:

Contents

• Lets Get Started but How?: 1
• Initial Questions to Answer: 17
• Preparing Web Site Content: 33

Bibliographic information

• Title: Deliver first class web sites: 101 essential checklists; Sitepoint Series; Safari Books Online
• Author: Shirley Kaiser
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SitePoint, 2006
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Dec 7, 2007
• ISBN: 0975841904, 9780975841907
• Length: 331 pages
• Subjects: Computers / General; Computers / Internet / General; Computers / Reference; Computers / Web / Page Design; Electronic books; Web site development; Web sites; Websites