Web Sites That Work

What clicks? If you think a Web site is an interactive magazine, slash, newspaper then you're both right, slash, wrong. It's a new media form with new design criteria and new rules of navigation, but you better not veer far from the design traditions of what works. Black's long and successful career of designing the world's most famous magazines and newspapers focuses on Web sites. Opinionated, slash, blunt, slash, wise, slash funny, Roger Black is a voice that must be heard, whether you agree with him or not. Written and designed as a work of convergence - half journalism, half roving perspectives on Web creation techniques - Roger Black and his Interactive Bureau have created a book that precipitates the future of Web site designs that work.

Sean Elder writes "Only Connect", website reviews for The New Yorker. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and family.