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Web Style Guide

WEB STYLE GUIDE, 2nd edition

By Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton

This Second Edition of the Web Style Guide has been superseded by the new Third Edition. As with the Second Edition, the entire Third Edition is available online, and in print from Yale University Press.

New Edition Now Available on Amazon.

Web Style Guide, 3rd edition book coverThe third edition of Web Style Guide retains its focus on fundamental principles of design while incorporating the following elements:
  • A foreword by Peter Morville
  • A chapter devoted to Universal Usability, with guidelines and techniques for creating universally usable designs
  • A full chapter on Information Architecture and how best to promote its robust development
  • Information on Search Engine Optimization and the designs that improve it
  • Techniques for using Cascading Style Sheets for layouts and typographic design
  • 185 illustrations, all in full color
Web Style Guide 3 is now available for $19.80 on Amazon. We are in the process of creating the third edition website, with the complete text and illustrations from the book. We hope to launch WSG3 Online by the end of February 2009.

Front matter

Chapter 1: PROCESS

Chapter 2: INTERFACE DESIGN

Chapter 3: SITE DESIGN

Chapter 4: PAGE DESIGN

Chapter 5: TYPOGRAPHY

Chapter 6: EDITORIAL STYLE

Chapter 7: GRAPHICS

Chapter 8: MULTIMEDIA

Back matter

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