Books That Line the Shelves in the Creative Keys' Office (click on the title or the graphic for more information or to order)
Son of Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design
by Vincent Flanders, Dean Peters
These books are fun to read, while telling you how it actually is- the good,
the bad and the ugly.
Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity
by Jakob Nielsen
Written by the well-known guru of usability. If a website is difficult to
navigate, visitors will leave quickly and in droves. Nielsen shows us how to
avoid that.
Home Page Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
by Jakob Nielsen
In this, his most recent book, Nielsen tackles 50 home pages and shares his
thoughts on what works and what doesn't.
Designing
Web Graphics: 4 (fourth edition)
by
Linda Weinman
Weinman's books on graphics are known to be the most comprehensive, well written
and down-to-earth works available concerning Internet design.
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug, Roger Black
If you read this book along with Nielsen's books, and follow their advice,
visitors will love visiting your websites.
101 Ways to Promote Your Web Site
by Susan Sweeney, C.A.
Once you have your website launched, you want people to visit. Sweeney is
an expert on a plethora of ways to accomplish it.
Secrets of Successful Web Sites
by David Siegel
Technologically savvy, but also straight forward in his approach, Siegel gives
a perfect blueprint of ways to plan, develop and design websites that work.
Creating Killer Websites
by David Siegel
Another enlightening book by Siegel, which (in my opinion) counts as the
"creme de la creme" of website development books.
Webmastering For Dummies
by Daniel A. Tauber and Brenda Kienan
All of the books for "Dummies" have proved to be filled with excellent information
and how tos. This one is no exception and should be a part of every designer's
library.
Useful On-Line Tools to Help You
Webmonkey – http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
- A web developer’s resource with excellent articles for all levels
of expertise.
Web Pages That Suck - http://webpagesthatsuck.com
- Tons of great ideas on what works and what doesn't on web sites. I
subscribe to their “Daily Disaster” to see what not to do
on the web.
Ezine help – http://www.e-zinez.com
– Excellent free tutorials on everything you want to know about
publishing an e-zine.
Ezine Tips – http://ezine-tips.com
– Another great source of information on this cutting-edge way
of keeping in touch.
Fuse.com - http://efuse.com
- This is a great site sponsored by net objects fusion with some very
good articles on marketing and the web.
FREE Electronic E-Books - http://digitaltoolz.com/pages/internet-marketing-E-books.htm
- This page gives you almost 30 free links to e-books on various aspects
of Internet Marketing.
Databack – http://www.databack.com
- Many web services including hosting and autoresponders but the best
is their "dbmailer" listserver that enables you to manage
a very large email list. Great, responsive service.
Response-O-Matic - http://www.response-o-matic.com
- Enables you to create forms that send results to your email without
cgi scripting.
AtomZ -
http://www.atomz.com/ - Lets you put a free search
engine on your site. Works really well and easy to do. I use this on
most of the websites I design.
Paypal - http://www.paypal.com
- Lets you pay anyone in the world by credit card or lets you get paid
directly by credit card without a merchant account. Has a very easy
feature that enables you to list products for sale on your site.
Yahoo Groups - http://groups.yahoo.com/
- Lets you set up free email discussion lists
Snitz Forums – http://forum.snitz.com/
- Free software for setting up a professional Discussion Board. Their
community forums help you every step of the way.
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