Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL

Chapter 14. Implementing a User Interface

Continuing our journey through some theory behind web applications, we are going to turn our attention to user interfaces (UIs)the face of your web applications. We will investigate the design decisions that go into creating a user interface and hopefully convince you to spend time planning it before you write a line of code. In addition, we will talk about things that you may have never thought about before when writing programs.

In this chapter, we will

• Discuss the importance of a consistent and clean-looking user interface

• Mention the considerations that should go into designing the interface for your web application

• Spend some time looking at how to help users in trouble

• Discuss various strategies and technologies for implementing the front end of your application