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Summary: Skip It if You're Serious about Web Design
Review: In short, after examining the Web site which is the basis of this book, I concluded that the book would not be helpful. The authors base their instruction on Web design primarily on books focused exclusively on print design. The Web is not print! They do mention a few good Web oriented tips, but you can get those in other Web design books which are truly Web design books. Furthermore, I was glad to see that they acknowledge CSS at least, but in truth, CSS is far more important to Web design than these uppitty Ivy-league professors let you know. Essentially, the book is a complete wash: mark it as useless, and move on!
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Summary: Required reading for beginning/intermediate web developers
Review: This inexpensive book is an essential introduction to basic webinformation architecture and graphic design for the web. This is not abook for people who want to build loud, flashy, hard-to-use commercial web sites. Rather, it's a guide for presenting useful information in a refined, usable, efficient way. Among other things the authors look at data from human behavioral studies that suggests fundamental design rules that you will see ignored on the web every day, to the detriment of many web sites.
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Summary: An actual must-read for web designers
Review: This book is amazing, actually! It manages to cover pretty much everything you need to know, from a practical level, to get your web site up and looking intelligent. I think there's a lot of website authors who don't grasp the nature of the beast that is a large scale website, meaning 20 pages or more. This book is vital for that reason. I feel like I know just about all of it, but it's worth its weight in gold because I keep it around as a sort of checklist when I'm doing my designs, or even just planning a website.How many books talk about how to actually plan your website to make it usable? None do it like this book. It's perfectly written, to the point, and the price is beautiful. Kudos to the authors, this book is a work of art! My highest recommendation.
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Summary: A real example of *FOR DUMMIES* book
Review: I expected a much more overview of web design principles. I didn't expect to see things almost anyone knows - web-safe gif palette, jpeg compression and optimization, etc. I expected a book on useful web design concepts. I'm very disappointed.
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Summary: Web Style Guide : Basic Design Principles for
Review: I like this book, but I am a student, I don't have much money.
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Summary: Rave review!
Review: If one hopes to get a Hello World! practicum this is definitely not the book to read. This is a great book about conceptual web design: a framework.
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Summary: Don't Be Fooled!
Review: Don't be fooled by the title of this book! It's not a style guide for the web. Its based on paper collateral designs and principles and it can not be applied to the real world. If I were to use this book when creating web sites, I would be the laughing stock of the company. Want to make stylish sites that don't bog down viewers browsers? Take a design class but DON'T pick up this book.
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Summary: There's better styles guides out there
Review: Not to be confused with a real style guide used by graphic designers and web masters, this book should not be used even as a basis of what web desgin should be.
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Summary: The basics and just the basics please!
Review: Amidst all the dark reviews I would like to shine a little light on the book. If your looking for an end all/be all book your looking in the wrong place. The principles in the book are basic solid ones. Limit yourself to these and you truly will have an awful site. Use them as guidelines, enhance them with your unique creativity and you will have a site that looks good, is bandwidth friendly, navigable and sensible. Expect more from something than it gives and you will always be disapointed!
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Summary: Where's the 'deep principles of design'?
Review: This book gives you neither deep principles of design or classic web style design. Limited, binding, and totally unrealistic, this book does not prepare new designers for the reality of working in the ever changing world of the Internet. With technology and design working hand in hand these days, having a 'guide' that forces creativity to be limited will cause a tug of war between making 'safe' designs and making marketable designs that bring in customers. Web pages made with this book will be static and uninteresing. No, I'm not saying that a designer should throw in fancy graphics and hard core, flashy animation or any thing like that. But a 'dead' page is not going to get people to notice your company. Worse still, who in this day and age is going to take a company seriously that has a sloppy web site that looks like an 8th grader did it? Because if you use this book for designing your site, that's what its going to look like.
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