This guide segments discussions of Web usability into page, content, site, and intranet design. This breakdown skilfully isolates for the reader many subtly different challenges that are often mixed together in other discussions. For example, Nielsen addresses the requirements of viewing pages on varying monitor sizes separately from writing concise text for "scannability". Along the way, the author pulls no punches with his opinions, using phrases like "frames: just say no" to immediately make his feelings known. Fortunately, his advice is some of the best you'll find.

One of the unique aspects of this title is the use of actual statistics to buttress the author's opinions on various techniques and technologies. He includes survey results on sizes of scr...
A Bible for Practioneers, 2002-06-25
I manage a web site for large company and this book is our Bible. It is probably the most insightful book on web design I've ever read read.

While I give 5 stars for the content, I feel the need to comnment on the book's lousy construction The inside flaps curl immediately (and irrepairably) and the book's coating seems designed to collect fingerprint stains...