So, you've been developing web content for a while now, and you know there are more "standards" or patterns out there to making content, you're just not sure where. Well, a trip to your local bookstore just might solve that problem - where you can pick up this book reviewed by Builder.com.

In their review of The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience (nice, short title), the reviewer tells all about this large book (816 pages), and, oddly enough, states that most of the useful information he gleaned from it was in the beginning chapters. Although the 90 patterns make up the bulk of The Design of Sites, a lot of the book's value comes from the opening chapters, in the Foundations of Web Site Design section, and in the appendices.

I think it's great that, more and more, people are looking at the standard ways that people interact with websites before just going off and making one. There are so many sites out there that, while they look nice, are only really noveties, and not really all that useful...