A classic reference book on user interface design and graphic design for web sites, updated to reflect a rapidly changing marketConsistently praised as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide has sold many thousands of copies and has been published around the world. This new revised edition confirms Web Style Guide as the go-to authority in a rapidly changing market. As web designers move from building sites from sc...

Consistently praised in earlier editions as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide, now in its Third Edition, continues its tradition of emphasis on fundamentals. Focusing on the needs of web site designers in corporations, government, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions, the book explains established design principles and how they apply in web design projects in which information design, interface design, and efficient search and na...

Well, hello there! Welcome to our little community. Took a wrong turn off the main road, did you? Let’s hope you can find your way out again. Only kidding! I’m sure you’ll be fine.You’ve come at the perfect time actually; the Harvest Festival is in full swing. There’s country dancing on the square, the Ladies’ Auxiliary have coffee and cake worth killing for and the nettle eating competition starts at 3 p.m., if you’re feeling brave.Can I give you a bit of friendly advice? ...

Caprock, Texas, is a sleepy cow town until oil is discovered in the 1920s. Suddenly thousands of people stream in to find their fortune. Some are honest folk like Elise and Victor Underwood, who pray for a little luck with their daily bread. But too many are two-bit swindlers. And then there's frontier mobster Big Boy Daugherty. Sheriff Dave Buckalew faces a whole different set of circumstances as his town springs to life—in good and not-so-good ways.The town of Caprock is loosely ...

Former Olympic skating star Ellen Cusack is pondering a new beginning for her career when she starts receiving hate mail from someone calling himself the Ice Man. Soon after, the phone begins ringing in the middle of the night—at first the caller hangs up when Ellen answers, but then he begins to talk to her. The stranger promises Ellen that he will change her life. When gardeners dig up the body of an unidentifiable young woman in Ellen’s garden, panic sets in. And then a videotape arrive...

When ProvLife, a successful life insurance company, expands into health care coverage, Alex Tynan, a young financial analyst employed by the company, becomes suspicious.First of all, the statistics of the policyholders seem contrived and unrealistic. Alex also notices several of her colleagues suddenly make enormous amounts of money, while she must care for her aging mother and support herself on an entry-level salary. Then a company executive is found dead, after behaving bizarrel...

James Gordon Bennett was born in 1841, a spoilt only son who took over as publisher of the New York Herald from his millionaire father. Bennett tirelessly supported pioneering fields of technology and sport, always with speed in mind. In 1899, fascinated by the new motor cars, he instigated the International Gordon Bennett Cup. The inaugural race took place in 1900 between Paris and Lyon. Three countries entered, but this was just the beginning of a massive phenomenon that, thanks to Benne...

LOOK TO YOUR COMPASSHere are eleven tales.Eleven tales of science fiction.Eleven tales that take us to futures near and far,That show us planets and people bothfamiliar and strange.An undercover operative seeking a mysterious girl; a settler on Mars dreaming of open skies; a cop with a short fuse and a robot partner; a man seeking absolution on a distant planet; a couple trying to deal with social media bereavement; prosp...

ALAEDORNIAIt's another world, vast beyond comprehension, and it exists right alongside our own. Amanda Hazel has known this since she was a child. She knows something else about it, too. It's dangerous. And she has been running away from it for years. All the way into adulthood. Now, well over a decade after her first encounter with Alaedornia, she has to go back.It's not just for her own benefit that she must travel there again. She owes her cousin Thom, badly injured when...

NORTH OF MIDNIGHTLOOK TO YOUR COMPASSHere are nine tales.Nine tales of supernatural mystery and weird imagination.Nine tales that take you from the deceptive comfort of the everyday to places strange and unlikely.A troubled neighbour, a woman with the answers to your prayers, a guy walking into a bar, a haunted man embarking on a new relationship, a pair of con artists driving away from their latest mark, a couple in a travelling mar...

LOOK TO YOUR COMPASSHere are ten tales.Ten tales that defy easy categorisation.Ten tales that take a look at the world from peculiar angles and bring a little-seen strangeness into focus.A young woman in an empty hospital; a man trying to hold onto his past; an architect who makes a mistake; a woman with a disconcerting line in conversation; a dying man learning to live; a couple confronting an invisibility virus; a newspaperman chasing the ...

LOOK TO YOUR COMPASSCollected together for the first time in thisomnibus Box Set edition are the four story collectionsmaking up Mark Patrick Lynch'sCardianl Points series.North of Midnight - Ghosts and HorrorsEast of Never - Fantasies and WhimsiesSouth of Strange - Slipstream TalesWest of the Moon - Sceince Fiction StoriesOver 230,000 words of fiction now available