Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists
Author: Shirley Kaiser
Building Best Practice Websites: 101 Must Have 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.
Table of Contents:
| 1 | Let's get started ... but how? | 1 |
| 2 | What to find out : initial questions to answer | 17 |
| 3 | Preparing Web site content | 33 |
| 4 | Managing all the content | 45 |
| 5 | Web site usability : focusing on the user | 61 |
| 6 | Color | 79 |
| 7 | Information architecture | 93 |
| 8 | Navigation | 115 |
| 9 | Best coding practice : W3C standards and recommendations | 147 |
| 10 | Creating accessible Web sites | 173 |
| 11 | Web site optimization | 199 |
| 12 | Search engine optimization | 219 |
| 13 | Design | 239 |
| 14 | Testing | 257 |
| 15 | Preparing for launch | 281 |
| 16 | Post-launch follow-up | 295 |
| A | Ecommerce checklists | 317 |
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IT Architectures and Middleware: Strategies for Building Large, Integrated Systems
Author: Chris Britton
The challenges of designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, distributed enterprise systems are truly daunting. Written by and for IT professionals, IT Architectures and Middleware, Second Edition, will help you rise above the conflicts of new business objectives, new technologies, and vendor wars, allowing you to think clearly and productively about the particular challenges you face.
This book focuses on the essential principles and priorities of system design and emphasizes the new requirements emerging from the rise of e-commerce and distributed, integrated systems. It offers a concise overview of middleware technology alternatives and distributed systems. Numerous increasingly complex examples are incorporated throughout, and the book concludes with some short case studies.
Topics covered include:
- Middleware technology review
- Key principles of distributed systems: resiliency, performance and scalability, security, and systems management
- Information access requirements and data consistency
- Application integration design
- Recasting existing applications as services
In this new edition, with updates throughout, coverage has been expanded to include:
- Service-oriented architecture concepts
- Web services and .NET technology
- A more structured approach to system integration design
Booknews
Focuses on the principles and priorities of enterprise systems design, emphasizing the new requirements brought by e-commerce and distributed, integrated systems. Britton, who works for Unisys, discusses middleware technology alternatives, resiliency, performance and scalability, security, systems management, information access and accuracy, and creation of a new presentation layer for existing applications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Internet Book Watch
IT Architecture And Middleware: Strategies For Building Large, Integrated Systems, presents the essential principles and priorities of system design, emphasizing the new requirements brought about by the rise of e-commerce and distributed, integrated systems. IT professional Christ Britton offers a concise overview of middleware technology alternatives and distributed systems as he covers such topics as information access requirements and data consistency, creation of a new presentation layer for existing applications, application integration, and component architectures. Carl Britton's IT Architecture And Middleware is a highly recommended addition to the growing body of information technology literature and IT architecture reference collections.
