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Summary: Feeling Cheated
Review: I was very disappointed with Navigation Volume 2 (I never read Vol 1). The sites chosen for review were obviously chosen because they were artistic and "cool", and not because of their stellar Navigation. Most of the sites reviewed were Flash based sites with confusing navigation that breaks many of the basic rules. These types of navigation are great if you only have 10 pieces of content on your entire site but if you have any real amount of content and your users need a logical way to get around your site then this is not the book for you. Also there's no explanations in the book so you have very little idea why they chose that navigation and what it might be good for. This book is just pretty to look through but has no substance, it will surely collect dust on my shelf.
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Summary: Feeling Cheated
Review: I was very disappointed with Navigation Volume 2 (I never read Vol 1). The sites chosen for review were obviously chosen because they were artistic and "cool", and not because of their stellar Navigation. Most of the sites reviewed were Flash based sites with confusing navigation that breaks many of the basic rules. These types of navigation are great if you only have 10 pieces of content on your entire site but if you have any real amount of content and your users need a logical way to get around your site then this is not the book for you. Also there's no explanations in the book so you have very little idea why they chose that navigation and what it might be good for. This book is just pretty to look through but has no substance, it will surely collect dust on my shelf.
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Summary: Sad, very sad
Review: Navigation? I don't think so. This is just a collection of graphic ideas. There is no "navigation" inspiration here. In fact this series is a let down. 75% of the images are an exact duplicate from the Splashpage book in the series. These guys from Rockport are trying to make a quick book with slick images. There has to be something better out there.
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Summary: Sad, very sad
Review: Navigation? I don't think so. This is just a collection of graphic ideas. There is no "navigation" inspiration here. In fact this series is a let down. 75% of the images are an exact duplicate from the Splashpage book in the series. These guys from Rockport are trying to make a quick book with slick images. There has to be something better out there.
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Summary: Web is not print. Web is not TV.
Review: Whoever manages to persuade the bushy tailed graphics designer crowd of the above will have fully deserved a Nobel Prize. The book consists of very pretty screen shots, and as such makes a great coffee table piece. Seriously. Very pretty, most of it. However, it's supposedly about the web. OK, so it goes as usual: Most of the sites in the book use Flash (with a vengeance), and all are very heavily graphical. Very, very pretty... in print. And let me share a terrible secret: whenever I run into stuff like that in the real life -- via modem, on computer display, tick-tock, tick-tock, 25 images left, download time 5 mins... -- I use the "Skip Intro..." button as soon as it can be discerned on screen ('course that only kills the Flash stuff.) 'nuf said -- for any web-related purposes this graphics design show-off book is useless.
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