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Summary: Fantastic, well rounded guide for publishing web pages
Review: This book is really an outstanding guide and overview for beginners to web-design. It covers the whole picture from effectively using search engines to uploading your site. So-called web-design experts would also learn heaps from these authors. How many web pages have you seen that are poorly laid out - written no doubt by techos and programming types, with little or no understanding of web page layout and design. The authors cover heaps of useful and insightful tips to creating well designed, great looking pages. Invaluable first book - I only wish there was more on their layout and design tips. Very well presented, easy to understand and informative and fun to read. Highly recomended!
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Summary: Thank God!
Review: I am a graphic designer with 20 years experience in the print arena. I quit for awhile to play art gallery and now I'm back because I have to put my gallery online - and I know nothing about web design! I bought 6 different books (all ranging from $30 to $60) before I knew Robin's book was out there, and I couldn't find the basic information in any of them. Then I discovered this book - it fell on my foot in the bookstore, actually, and knowing Robin's previous works, I was really excited - while hopping around holding my foot. I bought the book and read it cover-to-cover and it gave me all the groundwork I needed plus a lot of entertainment. Robin and John have the marvelous gift of keeping it simple - even when dealing with complicated subjects - and they do it with humor! EVERYBODY can learn something from this publication - however hot you think you are. Now, I just wish Robin and John would write a book on Flash!
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Summary: Beginner? Get this book.
Review: I knew very little about designing a web site. This book was an easy and enjoyable read, as well as a handy reference at every phase of designing and publishing. I highly recommend it to those just diving in; a great primer.
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Summary: The book which ALL web designers should read!
Review: This book is highly readable and practical to any web designer. As a matter of fact, it's one book that ALL web designers should read! Why? Because the majority of websites out there are amateurishly designed! Robin Williams does a fantastic job at explaining what a professional website should be. I know because I designed my website from scratch and based on her book! It's one book I'll be recommending all my clients!
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Summary: For the just starting out web designer. simple but good
Review: This book really shows how and what is needed for a good looking web page. The principles and concepts seem like common sense when reading this book. Seems like a lot of web page designers need this book. I have used it to help me to design my web pages to look professional and under stand what is needed in creating a web page. More than a few colors and pictures this helps you to think about what you plan to do on the web
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Summary: A Real Gem for Know-Nothing Design Neophytes
Review: If you haven't the first clue how to go about designing a web page that is visually appealing and easy to navigate, this book is the one to buy. Williams and Tollett showed me the error of my web designing ways--and I have a great looking site to prove it!Professional designers and Net-heads probably won't get much out of this book--but if you're greener than green and need to know how to design a site that works, pick this one up!
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Summary: A great book for beginners; good for advanced webheads.
Review: Just like the title says, if you have little or no design experience/training, this is a great book to have. But even if you have been designing web sites for a while like me (3 years), there are plenty of things you might find useful. The book is full-color. Much of it assumes you know little about computers, HTML, and the Internet. It also assumes you are using one of the popular HTML editors and graphics programs like Frontpage and Photoshop. Even with these liabilities, there are wonderful principles, tips and techniques provided by the authors that should benefit even experienced designers. For me, the meat of the book was the middle where it describes the basics of design, color, layout, and typography. The advanced tips and tricks chapter also offered some tidbits I hadn't thought of before. However, I breezed through the beginning and ending chapters (on the Internet, web pages, site organization, uploading your site, and testing it) because they had little to offer I didn't already know. But for a beginner this may be valuable information. One reason I wanted this book was all of its beautiful and creative design examples. If I am stumped on how to design something, I will pick up this book and see if it may inspire me. The authors didn't provide "cutting edge" type graphics, but examples that are simple, colorful and effective.
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Summary: Its a classic!
Review: Williams comes through again with this thorough and witty guide to website design. A must-have for every web designer.
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Summary: Covers the important principles of all aspects of web design
Review: As an intermediate level web page designer, I found this book to be extremely useful. If you follow the principles in this book, your pages will look better than 95% of the pages on the web.
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Summary: The Children's Guide to Creating Web Pages
Review: is what this book should be called. The authors insulted my intelligence with hand-holding prose, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and the assumption that I know next to nothing.
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