: Web Application Design - Good reading materials? I've been searching for a few days to find some good reading material on web application design, and haven't been able to find much (too many
I've been searching for a few days to find some good reading material on web application design, and haven't been able to find much (too many buzzwords or something). I'm looking for something that covers some design patterns for common situations in user-based systems (authentication, permissions/roles, preferences/configurations, encryption, payment, etc.) which might detail common implementations on server-side (hopefully in MVC style) application and database schema layouts. I think normally a lot of these are implemented in existing frameworks such as Struts, Springs, etc. but in some cases I might have to roll-my-own small framework or add to an existing and I need something to help me understand more about how these are implemented, or proper ways for implementing them myself.
There is a lot of information available but most of what I find seems to be scattered, and specifically I'd like to find a book or few (reading on screen is bothersome for my eyes).
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Steven Krug's Don't Make Me Think is an excellent book about website usability.
It's a highly recommended, easy-to-read, on many programmer must-read lists.
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There are two main classes of books for the overarching design (from a Webmasters perspective), those on Web Architecture/Scalability and those on organising information. I can recommend these books:
Web Architecture
Web Application Architecture:
Principles, Protocols and Practices
The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise
Information Architecture
Information Architecture for the
World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale
Web Sites
Information Architecture: Blueprints
for the Web (Voices That Matter)
The Beautiful series (Beautiful Data/Code/Architecture/Security/Visualisation) are worth a look - for ideas but not reference.
With regards to good website design (beyond information display) there are many books on usability/design available. Personally I like the "Head First" O'Reilly series, but it is a love/hate with my colleges, who prefer paperbacks from specific artists or HCI (Human Computer Interface) textbooks.
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