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Summary: Terrible!
Review: What a horible, horrible book! I teach graphic design and web site design and this book is absolutely terrible! I'll never use or recomend this book to anyone and I'm a design professional.
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Summary: Required Reading
Review: Lynch and Horton's Web Style Guide is required reading in my course, "The Principles of Television, Multimedia, and Internet Production" at the University of Notre Dame. With their logical, clearly stated approach to a medium that is largely a confusing, inconsistent mess, this book was selected, without hesitation, after careful review of several possible other titles. The Guide also serves as one of the sources for research we are conducting in the qualitative analysis of Internet sites in general. My students, primarily upperclassmen (50% communication majors) who are typical of college students in general in being quite "Internet-savy," have been universally complementary of the book as well; this has been a stong factor in my using the book every year since it was first published. I greatly look forward to the next edition.
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Summary: Basic Principles -- NOT "How-To" guide
Review: The book is what it promises to be -- a "guide". The book gives you basic principles behind web-style. It is NOT a "How-To" web-design book, I wish it had a bit of that.My favorite part is in the beginning -- "Site Production Checklist" -- save you time, money and cranium! Very easy and quick to read reminds of some very simple and basic principles often overlooked because the Site has to be made as of "Yesterday". This books promotes the discipline of planning before actually plundging into the trenches. I recommend this book if you take this book as what it says it is -- nothing more, nothing less.
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Summary: What is going on here?
Review: This book is horrible! It has bad design concepts and poor examples. And I want my money back.
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Summary: Great for content developers
Review: I can see this book as a great resource for a broad audience, but especially for those of us who develop editorial content but do not necessarily design web pages. It is one of the most exciting books I've come across in a long time. apav@voicenet.com, consulting technical writer
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Summary: Let them show you the way
Review: To many web designers learn HTML and a little JavaScript, and think they are done learning. Most often don't realize the books that taught them HTML are terrible books regarding style and organization. This book picks up where these other books fall short. "Web Styl Guides: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites" will not teach you your basic HTML tags, but it will show you how to organize a site. I was fortunate enough to get an online version of this book and I found it to be a excellent book for the new web designer. I usually give my students and attendees to my lectures a list of books I recommend, this book is on that list.
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Summary: PRETTY CONCISE AND HELPFUL...
Review: ...far from being the last word in web design, but as a web developer, I found it pretty useful. I thought this book did a pretty good job of talking about some pretty important topics, like the site development process, and then clued me in on some graphic design concepts (like lossy versus lossless compression, and the differences between a JPEG and a GIF image). I would use this as a secondary reference, and keep "Web Design in a Nutshell" as a primary reference. Still worth the read, though.
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Summary: Not the Best, but still worth it
Review: There are better design guides out there but this one is still worth reading. The authors make some good points, especially if you are someone who doesn't have a print design background. However, there were times that they contradicted themselves. There were even more times that I (a web designer of 4 years) disagreed with them. While some of the tips and techniques they mention DO work, they are not always the best thing to do. Don't read this book thinking that it is THE guide for designing web sites. It will definitely help you, but check out other stuff too.
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Summary: Design VS Development
Review: First, I must point out that Web Developers write Internet code (Java, CGI, ASP) and do not usually design the 'look and feel' for a web site. Web Designers, on the other hand, create an over all feel for a site using such things as Photoshop and Illustrator. Having said that, one must wonder why a designer even cares about dumbing down a site in order to prevent said site from being 'flashy'. The Internet is filled with poorly created sites that don't eat bandwidth. But a bad site is a bad site regardless of whether or not it incorporates Flash animation. I was always under the impression that a designer is an artist - one who holds a BFA or a BA in graphic arts. Hence, one would image that creativity is key - leave the 'basic' stuff to the novice or the college student. Let the web developer worry about bandwidth and functionality of the applications. The fact that this book prevents any creative thought to be placed into designing a site makes it one of the worst, and most ridiculous books I have ever read. If you need to stagger creativity and originality, then you should not be in a medium segmented for actual artists - a designer you should not be. For those who believe this book is the best thing since the invention of the wheel; perhaps you should learn a trade. To follow this book means that your work will be flat, boring, ineffective of the market to which you will be targeting and basically just poorly created.
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Summary: nice book
Review: useful for my work. thanks
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