If you know me well enough, you’ll know that I’m a book nut, but not for novels. I like reference books and books on how things work. I’m wired that way.
My latest kick is on web project and interaction design. This incorporates “design” in both common definitions: Designing the layout and graphics of a site to achieve certain goals, and designing the way a site works from behind, including everything from organization of page to software construction. I’ve recently ordered a pile of books covering these topics, because no single book covers the topics I want all in one volume.
What I thought I’d do is provide my preliminary analysis of each book. I’ll discuss generally what it covers in addition to what information I’ve so far been able to extract from it that’s useful. The first book I’ll do this with is Community Building on the Web, by Amy Jo Kim.
If you check out the book listing, you
