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A reference for experienced designers on how to plan and create menu systems for Web sites, intranet projects, wireless applications and CD-ROM content. The accompanying CD-ROM includes template files, working files for graphic exercises and colour versions of the graphics included in the book.
List of contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: Putting the Brains into Menu-Based Interfaces.
Chapter 1: What Is a Menu?
Chapter 2: Setting Site Direction and Assessing Available Tools.
Chapter 3: Why Are Your Visitors Here?
Chapter 4: Understanding Browsers, Intranets, and Wireless.
Chapter 5: Putting the "Map" into a Site Map.
Chapter 6: Choosing the Right Look.
Chapter 7: Creating a Rough Comp.
PART II: Slim, Sexy Menus: Making Words Count.
Chapter 8: Understanding Text Menu Methods.
Chapter 9: Cascading Style Sheets: The Production Tool that Delivers on Promises.
Chapter 10: Lightweight Champs: Text Menus That Fly onto the Page.
Chapter 11: Creating Tiny Text You Can Actually Read.
Chapter 12: Typography Counts for Menus.
Chapter 13: Text and Design.
Chapter 14: Text Menus for Wireless Devices.
PART III: More Than Just a Pretty Face: Graphic Menus with a Purpose.
Chapter 15: Why'd They Do That? Notes from Great Graphic Sites.
Chapter 16: Creating Graphic Elements to Guide Your Visitor.
Chapter 17: Preparing Graphics for Slicing and Rollovers.
Chapter 18: Optimizing and Slicing Graphics for Menus.
Chapter 19: Creating Tables that Stay Put in Any Browser.
Chapter 20: Stretch Your Work: Liquid Design for Any Monitor Resolution.
Chapter 21: Special Techniques for Flash.
PART IV: Lights, Camera, Action! Time to Create the Show.
Chapter 22: Mouse Moves: Creating Simple and Complex Rollovers and Image Maps.
Chapter 23: Building DHTML Drop-Down Menus with Text and Graphics.
Chapter 24: Creating Jump Menus and Customized Forms.
Chapter 25: Automation and Template Tricks.
Chapter 26: Pulling It Together, and Test, Test, and Test Again.
Chapter 27: Production Tricks and Fun Stuff.
Appendix: What's on the CD-ROM.
Index.
End-User License Agreement.
