Designing for Performance

Weighing Aesthetics and Speed



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Price$5.00 - $19.18
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AuthorLara Callender Hogan
PublisherO'Reilly Media
Published2014
Pages184
LanguageEnglish
FormatPaper book / ebook (PDF)
ISBN-101491902515
ISBN-139781491902516
EBook Hardcover Paperback

As a web designer, you encounter tough choices when it comes to weighing aesthetics and performance. Good content, layout, images, and interactivity are essential for engaging your audience, and each of these elements have an enormous impact on page load time and the end-user experience. In this practical book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical.

To get started, all you need are basic HTML and CSS skills and Photoshop experience.




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