Adobe Master Class: Web Site Redesigns
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You may have a great idea, compelling information, and dazzling images--but without a good design to pull them all together, you may find yourself without the one thing that matters most: visitors. Uncover the design secrets behind some of the most successful sites on the Web in Adobe Master Class: Web Site Redesigns. All you need is a grasp of the basics of Web design; this full-color collection of before-and-after case studies provides all the inspiration you need to create your own distinctive site.

Unlike other books that take an instructive, step-by-step approach, Adobe Master Class: Web Site Redesigns shows you how some of the biggest and most cutting-edge names in Web design are applying the latest trends and technologies to real-world sites. Each case study takes you behind the scenes of a single site redesign, complete with before and after examples that illustrate the concepts of motion, interactivity, user-generated content, database publishing, interface design, user research, and more.

This is another Adobe Master Class book, a series which focuses on top designers and how they resolve some of their toughest projects. The designers here include Post Tool Design, who bring Chroniclebooks.com up-to-date with a fresh-looking Flash-based interface and a database back end. The design studio Method completely revamps Trip.com's site architecture. And Hot Studio creates a hip site for San Francisco's Glide Church, one that allows church staffers without any HTML skills to update content.

Readers get the inside scoop on the why, when, and how of each case study: a history of the client and the site, a profile of the chosen design team, requests for proposals, "understanding" phases, whiteboard schematics, user profiles, focus group results, intermediate sketches--whatever went on behind the scenes. Whether it's the fun icons and flash preloader quizzes of the BrainPop.com creative team or the corporate colored circles and fashionably colored hexagons of Adobe.com and Adobe Studio, respectively, devised by hillmancurtis.com, readers get a feeling for what it was like to toil on each project without actually having to do any of the heavy lifting.

The book is fun to read, especially if you're someone who enjoys problem-solving, even when you may not agree with the decisions or methodology. If the joys/agonies of Web design enrich/plague your life, you may find yourself reading this book all in one sitting. --Angelynn Grant

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