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Summary: Wonderful
Review: most wonderful book about web publishing and beyond. you will never get bored reading this book and you will learn all you need to know to start a career in web publishing
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Summary: Would you trust someone who provided a CD for a Web Book?
Review: Hey, a few years ago I looked at the back cover of this book's predecessor and it asked me what I was doing there looking for a CD. I bought the book just on that. That book is dog-eared. So this is the next edition. I have already passed it on to the marketing department where I work. They should be able to read it (that or they should fire themselves).This book will either enlarge your vision or affirm your vision about websites. A must buy. Peter
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Summary: Best book on web publishing
Review: This book covers the philosophy, basics and details for web publishing done right. It concentrates on databased backed sites and sites that scale up to millions of hits per day. Very clear writing. The great photos in the book on most pages make it a book that my children and wife have browsed through. (I can't say that about any of my other computer books!) My personal "Best computer book of 1999"
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Summary: Great, thoughtful book...
Review: Philip Greenspun doesn't just want to teach people how to build effective, database-backed web sites. He wants to change the world. He genuinely believes that (a) almost all current websites should be backed by databases, because only by having the rich libraries of reserve content that databases can manage can a site be truly interesting; and (b) that collaboration-focused database-backed websites can genuinely create new types of communities--raise human interaction and information exchange to new levels. Many of us have been lucky enough to pass through magical places and times when--somehow--education suddenly happens because some critical mass is exceeded and ideas and insights reflect off the walls and into our brains at an almost unbelievable rate. But for all of us these places and times are exceptions (and many of us never experience them at all). Philip Greenspun believes that the web will make such magical times and places much more common...
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Summary: Beg, borrow, steal. Understand what the web is really about.
Review: Required reading for anyone interested in having a web site or simply wanting to better understand the web. Greenspun has an amazing ability to clearly discuss complex problems (and solutions) without scaring non-technical readers off -- and not putting geeks to sleep. Excellent examples on what works...and doesn't. If you only have one book about web publishing, this better be it. Thanks Philip, for reminding what the web can really be used to accomplish.
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Summary: An superb guide to a survivable web-philosophy.
Review: This book is one of the best I've *read*. I can't say that I've *ever* read a web publishing book cover to cover before. Pitfalls and no-no's of the web publisher are clearly identified with amusing anecdotes thrown in for seasoning. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in an online presence. Not only high-end users, but the common man will get loads of useful information from this tome.
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Summary: If you read one book on Web publishing, read this one.
Review: Goes to the heart of why and how to publish on the Web in an ascerbic but dead-on style. Outstanding chapters on using the Web for online communities (for education, communication, activism, etc.) and full of specific, useful advice for Web developers at any level, as well anyone who has or wants a Web site. I've given three copies to colleagues already (and sent others to photo.net where they can read it free).
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Summary: Buy This Book
Review: If you are sufficiently interested in this book to have read this far, you almost certainly ought to buy it; it is both entertaining and useful. Good points: 1) Lots of interesting ideas about web design clearly expressed. 2) Lots of simple explanations of important concepts that are both approachable and technically sufficient. 3) The opinions in this book are based on real world experience, and the descriptions of that experience allow you to draw your own conclusions. 4) Great pictures (which are only loosely related to the content of the book). I certainly don't agree with everything Philip says in this book and you probably won't either, but you probably will be amused and your web design probably will be improved by the thoughts it will provoke.
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Summary: Useful even for the experienced nerd, and enjoyable for all
Review: Though I'm already an experienced web-head, developing many of the kinds of web-enabled services Greenspun discusses, I found lots in this book I didn't know, and found it a tremendously enjoyable read as well. I suspect that even the material that I already knew well will come in handy someday when I'm called upon to explain something to someone and don't have a ready-made explanation of my own. Congratulations to the author on a very fine piece of work.
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Summary: If you buy only one coffee-table computer book this year...
Review: Greenspun's advice on building a community site rings more true (and maybe it is more true) because he actually maintains a large community site as his home page. I also really appreciate his advocacy of open source software. Don't get me wrong - I think his content and writing style and photographic skills are all excellent! But so does everyone else, and I wanted to add something new to the discussion =)
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