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Summary: Superb, concise design advice
Review: Classic design and editorial advice aimed at producing efficient Web communication. Not a book for gearheads who want the latest tech-toy or animation plug-in. The authors have clearly aimed at more timeless standards of page layout and editorial approaches to effective communication in this medium. Excellent advice for enterprise managers who need page design and interface advice to figure a way out of the chaotic confusion most intranets have become in the last several years.
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Summary: Not a style guide
Review: This is a poor excuse for a style guide of any kind. Company-based web sites should reflect current trends on the Internet. Not only is this book out of date but its a poor example of a style guide.
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Summary: Doesn't deliver
Review: Perhaps if you're new to the internet (and new to web design & practical web application) this book can work for you. But for the rest of us this book is not useful or practical. The design applications are too basic, outdated. Where's the market/trend information? All the relevant information about PC harware that would allow for a complete retrospect for creating a successful web page? This book makes promises that it doesn't deliver. Not the best guide for successful corporate pages.
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Summary: Pass this one by
Review: Having read this book, then the reviews for it, I'm pretty dismayed by the division between graphic designers and web masters. As a developer and a programer for the Internet, I find this book to be unreasonable and, frankly, dated; the information stored within is a poor example of what can and should be accomplished on the Internet. How sad that there are people so new to the web that they are blinded by the limits of this book. This is not about hard-core designers creating complicated web pages; this is about reaching all Internet visitors by using functional pages and leading edge technology to capture an audience. And this book just doesn't bring that to life.
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Summary: Great guide to creating a web site
Review: If you are just at the beginning stages of creating a web site - buy this book! It gives you a step by step plan to make sure you think about what you are doing before starting. As the books says "careful planning and a clear purpose are the keys to success in building web sites. . ." This is not a technical manual or a book to teach design. It's a "think about what you want to accomplish" guide. If you want to feel confident you are getting off on the right foot with your web, whether you are designing it yourself or outsourcing, this book will help tremendously.
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Summary: Solid, direct, & deliberately focused
Review: Hardcore designers won't like this book, as they usually don't like readability or usability studies. It is a valuable basic reference for business designers for whom the point is clarity and usability, not cutting-edge design. It is valuable for starting a Web project to set the ground rules upon which design is built. I highly recommend it. Use it to avoid building another of the thousands of really bad Websites.
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Summary: Timeless and practical design advice
Review: Solid practical advice on Web communication, aimed mostly at corporate, educational, and non-profit people who need good information about delivering information via the Web. No juvenile "killer site" nonsense, or gearhead technology digressions; just excellent advice for adults who build Web sites.
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Summary: Find a Better Style Guide
Review: What is this book offering? Surely not a true vision of Internet design. As someone who has been doing design for many years I find this book lacking, to be kind. Design IS easy - once you understand that the designer is the driving force behind creating fluid, exciting layouts and design elements. And with the changing technology of the Internet, this book is behind the times. Web designers do yourself a favor - take what you learn and push the envelope - have an opinion of your own.
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Summary: The First (and still best) style guide on web design
Review: Let's get what this book is NOT out of the way: it is not a technical reference, nor is it a "killer graphic" how to. It is a style guide similar to The Chicago Manual of Style, and covers effective journalistic practices (the importance of dating material, article attributions, references, etc.)and sound layout and navigation strategies. Anyone with any experience in designing web sites will already have a working knowledge of most of what this book covers, but it is still an excellent reference for working professionals, and the best place to start for beginning designers I can think of. Criticizing this book for hampering a designers "creativity" or use of technology seems silly to me. I've never met writers, editors or graphic designers that complained about The Chicago Manual of Style or Strunk and White. If you want to make sure your site has everything it might need to be useful to the user, buy this book. I also recommend "Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity " by Jakob Nielsen, as well as "Envisioning Information" and "Visual Explanations" by Edward Tufte.
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Summary: Solid book, good intro to web design
Review: Works well as an introduction or as a reference book. Good overviews of basic principles of working with aesthetic on web sites.
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