Library
There are several books available on the subject of interactive communications. Here are some of our favourites.
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Building Accessible Web Sites
By Joe Clark. Publisher New Riders
A guide to building Web sites that are accessible on nearly every device to nearly every visitor, even those with disabilities. How and why to use accessibility techniques, with an emphasis on phrased accessibility that scales to the needs of different Web sites' strategies appropriate for small, medium and large budgets and sites.
Built for Use: Driving Profitability Through the User Experience
By Karen Donoghue. Publisher McGraw-Hill
The first book on user experience that focuses on the bottom line value add to business managers and executives. It uniquely focuses on linking the user experience with business strategy.
Built for Use: Driving Profitability Through the User Experience
Content Management Bible
By Bob Boiko. Publisher John Wiley & Sons
One of the most comprehensive books you are likely to find on Content Management. It covers all aspects of content management from collection through organisation to delivery and explores it from from all angles including planning and ROI, project management and technical development.
Designing with Web Standards
By Jeffrey Zeldman. Publisher New Riders
This guide to web standards - writing code once for use on today's and future browsers - provides code snippets and web site examples of compliant code in use so that when done correctly all web sites look the same regardless of the browser.
Making It Personal: How to Profit from Personalization Without Invading Privacy
By Bruce Kasanoff. Publisher John Wiley and Sons
Explores the impact of "personalisation" technologies, and how to apply them without invading privacy. Kasanoff considers the commercial, cultural, and legal implications, as individuals and businesses become increasingly interconnected and provides a practical framework from which to assess the opportunities and threats posed by personalisation.
Making It Personal: How to Profit from Personalization Without Invading Privacy
Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy
By Rockley, Kastur, Manning. Publisher New Riders
This book is designed to provide a conceptual framework for understanding how to create and manage content that is to be repurposed for use in different media. It also provides practical solutions to get a handle on content creation, repurposing, efficiency and cross-enterprise management.
The Cluetrain Manifesto
By Levine, Locke. Publisher FT.COM
Markets are conversations. Talk is cheap. Silence is fatal. What if the real power of the Web lay not in the technology behind it, but in the profound changes it brings to the way people interact with business? And what if these changes were altering the nature of your company as profoundly as they have changed your markets?
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness
By Virginia I. Postrel. Publisher HarperCollins
This book discusses how the quest for aesthetically pleasing surroundings and objects is affecting the way that we trade, work and behave. Wide ranging and witty - it takes the reader from monumental architecture to more humourous insights into the styling of everyday objects. A thought provoking study of the profound influence that design has on our lives.
Weaving the Web: Origins and Future of the World Wide Web
By Tim Berners-Lee. Publisher Texere
Weaving the Web is the definitive account of how the World Wide Web came to be. The history of the Web and W3C is recounted in a characteristically modest and self-effacing way, and tells a story of ingenuity and persistence and vision.
