http://blog.webdesignmanuals.com A blog to aid the writing of my forthcoming book about making web design manuals Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:23:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a period of radio silence this blog is going to resume activity. Firstly, I've been invited by Janus Boye to present my thoughts about Web Design Manuals at the cmf2006 conference next week in Århus. I'm also invited to host a roundtable discussion about the conflict between the traditional ... http://blog.webdesignmanuals.com/2006/11/05/hey-whats-next/ I'd love to hear your comments to this proposal for a structure of the book. Introduction - who is it for, why bother etc About web design manuals What are they? Who are they for? How make one? Elements and structure of a web page Documentation of the design Site structure Page structure Colours Fonts Links Navigation Logo use Images use Media use Standards compliancy Making the web ... http://blog.webdesignmanuals.com/2006/08/16/an-outline-for-the-book/ I've decided to publish my forthcoming book under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. This means that you are not going to be able to buy it anywhere. When it's finished you can just download it if you want it. Why? Three reasons. Many people have helped me, directly or indirectly, form ... http://blog.webdesignmanuals.com/2006/08/12/giving-it-away/ When researching for this book I come across many interesting sites. I first bookmark them to my del.icio.us account and then select the best to the link section on this blog (they are at the sidebar to the right). If you want to check all my research bookmark, just look ... http://blog.webdesignmanuals.com/2006/08/08/shared-links/ A web design manual is made to enforce a company’s visual identity on the web. It defines acceptable colours and fonts for use on the web pages. It describes accept-able use of logos and other visual hallmarks. It may even offer ready-to-use tem-plates for web pages. The web design manual is ... http://blog.webdesignmanuals.com/2006/08/08/what%e2%80%99s-a-web-design-manual/ I've been wanting to write a book about web design manuals for years. Since November 2002 according to my first notes. This week I red Seth Godin's posting Advice for authors and Shel Israel's Are you using a blog to promote your book?. Reading those postings kicked me to set ... http://blog.webdesignmanuals.com/2006/08/05/blogging-to-write-a-book/