The proliferation of books on web design has buried the many critical issues that have emerged over the last two or three years. New technologies and applications, along with ever-more-sophisticated compression techniques and broadband services, have accelerated the growth of the web and the number of its users - and given rise to a number of crucial issues. Now, for the first time, comes an intelligent book on the defining principles of cutting-edge web design. Deep Sites will lead a large audience directly to the key practitioners and to the underlying principles that make their work so significant. The book is organized by critical areas of web design: - Interface It took about a century for the young art of book printing to realize that it needed page numbers to facilitate easy navigation through the book. Roughly a decade after the large-scale development of the web, designers and developers are still searching for the best way to navigate cyberspace. - Typography Once static forms now have to be re-invented from scratch when applied to on-screen media to accommodate time and motion. - Animation With the advent of streaming media, growing bandwidth and leaner data, the web wil