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Summary: a big disapointment
Review: Wow what a disapointment this book was. Poor use of images and text and bad advice on how to arrange it all that you'll find here. I know that there are better guides on web page design out there.
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Summary: Designer's Companion
Review: When you surf a lot you run into sites you don't like: this book tells you why you didn't like them and how they should have been constructed. Teaches sound design technique: how you apply the ideas and with what tools is up to you. Saved me heaps of time. Earned me plaudits from boss and colleagues! Should be required reading!
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Summary: Bad Design
Review: This book is laughable. As a design graduate with an actual degree, I can tell you that this book is NOT used as a reference to web design in any promient design school. Couple that with the fact that if you've been doing web design for a few years, like I have, you'll see that there is so much changes in both trends and design that you can't limit your pages to the outdated ideas that are portrayed in this book.
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Summary: No style
Review: This book made too many promises that just didn't pan out. This book does not have any good examples of what decent web design should look like and how it should function.You can't create solid pages with all the "don't do this" and "don't do that"s that are listed here. Serious web designers and graphic designers should avoid this book.
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Summary: Unreasonable
Review: When I read in this book that you have to break up lines of text because visitors don't like to see a lot of letters on one line, I knew I had wasted my money. For one thing, if you increase the font on your browser, you'll see large breaks in the flow of the text. And its pretty arrogant to think that all the customers/visitors viewing the site will have their browser setting set like yours. Same with keeping all the pages to the right; get a 19 inch or higher monitor, set your desk top to above 8x6, and you'll see what I'm talking about. Creating fluid tables makes more sense. Follow the do's and don't's of this book and your career as a web designer is doomed. Or at least it should be.
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Summary: This book is terrible
Review: Style guide? For who? If you feel that this book is the best thing to happen to web design since the GIF then maybe you shouldn't be creating pages online. This book is absolutly terrible.
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Summary: Benchmark book
Review: This is not a book on how to do HTML or how to import graphics. This is a book purely about design features of a web site. Most major web sites that you find pleasing and organized and viewable exhibit the design features in this book. Read it. It is enlightening to say the least and I repeat you will find the good features of well designed web sites embodied in this book. If you are more tuned to throwing technology at the visitor versus being visitor focused then please do not read this book because I want your visitors to return to my site and not yours.
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Summary: Excellent Design Guide That Gives Classic Advice
Review: In the last forty years, our fast-paced, future-shocked society has made it harder to comprehend the idea that certain concepts are timeless and enduring. Believe it or not, some things do not have to "improve" every year or be replaced by the latest thing in vogue. That is why enlightened people still read Plato or listen to Beethoven. That is why I am giving this book 5 stars. What it teaches you are classic design concepts, only applied to the Web. Keep it clean and useful, keep it consistent, plan it out completely before you construct a single page. And most important, design it for the intended users, not for your own entertainment. If you are new to Web design especially, this book will get you off to a great start and give you much to think about.
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Summary: Essential!
Review: Web Style Guide is the book I have been looking for. The people who didn't like it bought it for the title which is misleading. It should be "Web Design & Architecture Principles" or "Information Design for the Web" It is more of a UG text book than anything else and absolutely perfect for webdesigners who need information to help knock back kooky customer suggestions regarding dodgy layouts and stupid animations.(Phew!..)
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Summary: Where's the guide!
Review: If you're looking for a "Web Style Guide" make one yourself. This one isn't it. Although there are many good points sprinkled throughout this skinny guide, it's over-academic approach makes this about as interesting to read as the phone book. There are far too many "you must" and "you must not"'s to make this book credible as a design guide. Skip to their web site and save yourself some money... Where's their web site URL? Well right on the cover, of course!
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