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Summary: Don't even THINK about NOT buying this.
Review: .If you dare say your interested in website design, then I must beg of you why you do not have this book already? As a professional web designer I was totally impressed with this book. It holds true to every concept on decent and good web design that I have been trying to teach my employees and students forever. The concepts are simple, and presented in a humorous and fun tone. The graphics are colourful and definitely add to advice being given. I think this book is a must have for hobbyist and pro, beginner and expert alike. There is just too much valuable information in here, even if it serves as a check list to judge your own work against, it is well worth it for anyone at any level. At the very least, it's a good place to start a fresh designers training. My only complaint is the age of the book, the urls and websites could be updated, as well as the wonderful cd included in the back, that being said, I still hold firm this book is worth more then every penny. Anyone who works in this industry will tell you that good design is about bringing in money, something you can't do if you scare away your users. This book teaches you about advertising art. Read it, learn it, live it. Learn what to do right, by learning what not to do wrong. What an awesome idea, why didn't I think of that?
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Summary: Finally, a FUN and useful book on site design
Review: A delightful romp through the good and the bad of website design. Subtitled "Learning Good Design by Looking at Bad Design," these site designers do an excellent job of helping readers identify and understand typical design flaws and correct them. I enjoy telling people that our site is listed in Web Pages That Suck and watch the expressions on their faces. Actually, the authors compliment our site with a screen shot on p. 235 and say about our Web Marketing Info Center, "One of the best resources on the Internet that deals with marketing. You could and should spend days here...." (p. 243). Unlike most stuffy books on site design, this one is actually fun, and offers lots of off-the-wall illustrations of what not to do -- and the correct way to approach design. An excellent book that I strongly recommend for novice to intermediate site designers.
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Summary: Finally, a FUN and useful book on site design
Review: A delightful romp through the good and the bad of website design. Subtitled "Learning Good Design by Looking at Bad Design," these site designers do an excellent job of helping readers identify and understand typical design flaws and correct them. I enjoy telling people that our site is listed in Web Pages That Suck and watch the expressions on their faces. Actually, the authors compliment our site with a screen shot on p. 235 and say about our Web Marketing Info Center, "One of the best resources on the Internet that deals with marketing. You could and should spend days here...." (p. 243). Unlike most stuffy books on site design, this one is actually fun, and offers lots of off-the-wall illustrations of what not to do -- and the correct way to approach design. An excellent book that I strongly recommend for novice to intermediate site designers.
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Summary: BEST BOOK ON WEB PAGE DESIGN AND MISTAKES
Review: An excellent book for web designers wishing to improve their skills and evaluate their mistakes on web designing where very often they display great graphics but poor content. I enjoy very much reading this book as it has great content and originality. I am also a regular visitor to webpagethatsuck site to check on new updates and best of all the reviews on sucky pages. I have also added a link from my home page for any visitor wishing to visit Mr. Flanders's site before buying this excellent book
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Summary: An invaluable and entertaining book full of useful ideas.
Review: Anyone designing or revising a web site should read this book first. With humor and intelligence, the authors show you what to do by giving examples of web sites that fail in one way or another. Includes a terrific CD and complemented by a great web site.
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Summary: Suck it and See
Review: As someone who spends a great deal of time browsing for suitable course books I look for content with readability, simplicity, clarity, and relevance. I'm currently in the business of raising the IT awareness of non-IT people so a lot of mainstream IT textbooks are unappealingly dense. It was refreshing to find something that didn't lose sight of basic ideas among the available plethora of fancy technological structures. This is not necessarily a book for arty or techy designers. They would almost certainly find it too simplistic. On the other hand a business person who is commissioning a website or someone who is quite new to it all (yes, there are plenty of them out there!) could well use it to remind them not to be thoroughly seduced by available technology; designers and programmers naturally want to show off their skills and experiment and might thus lose sight of what their customer wants. I'd recommend this as a basic design guide to someone who needs to commission a website and doesn't have much time to delve into the details. Whether the technology is out of date or not is irrelevant as IT books, like almost all technology, are likely to be out of date soon after you buy them. The book provides a route to ideas checklists and a set of pointers which are accessible to anyone. Certainly it's repetitive and a little short on content for the price but people who buy it may not be reading it page for page so this would have the effect of ensuring that they don't miss important points. Whether the authors intended this effect is another question. Whether it's funny or not really depends on your appreciation of the look and feel of early 70s hippy geekdom. The ha ha in-your-face humour may be unpalatable to busy thrusting 21st century thrusting entrepreneurials. I'm a sort of affiliate geek so I found it tolerable. And of course I made a few allowances. They are Americans, after all.
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Summary: Suck it and See
Review: As someone who spends a great deal of time browsing for suitable course books I look for content with readability, simplicity, clarity, and relevance. I'm currently in the business of raising the IT awareness of non-IT people so a lot of mainstream IT textbooks are unappealingly dense. It was refreshing to find something that didn't lose sight of basic ideas among the available plethora of fancy technological structures. This is not necessarily a book for arty or techy designers. They would almost certainly find it too simplistic. On the other hand a business person who is commissioning a website or someone who is quite new to it all (yes, there are plenty of them out there!) could well use it to remind them not to be thoroughly seduced by available technology; designers and programmers naturally want to show off their skills and experiment and might thus lose sight of what their customer wants. I'd recommend this as a basic design guide to someone who needs to commission a website and doesn't have much time to delve into the details. Whether the technology is out of date or not is irrelevant as IT books, like almost all technology, are likely to be out of date soon after you buy them. The book provides a route to ideas checklists and a set of pointers which are accessible to anyone. Certainly it's repetitive and a little short on content for the price but people who buy it may not be reading it page for page so this would have the effect of ensuring that they don't miss important points. Whether the authors intended this effect is another question. Whether it's funny or not really depends on your appreciation of the look and feel of early 70s hippy geekdom. The ha ha in-your-face humour may be unpalatable to busy thrusting 21st century thrusting entrepreneurials. I'm a sort of affiliate geek so I found it tolerable. And of course I made a few allowances. They are Americans, after all.
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Summary: Honest, helpful and humorous...
Review: Bought this solely on reviews and from experience at the web site of the same name. It's a refreshingly honest book, pointing out the obvious and not so obvious mistakes. I expected it to be a catalog of sucky sites, but actually it had both good and bad, with the goods and bads outlined for each. Lots of helpful stuff on the CD too.
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Summary: Yawn -- Been There, Done That
Review: Built on a clever premise, but poorly executed, this book is a let down. If it is your first book on Web design you might enjoy it, but if you are already beyond the novice stage you won't learn too much. The presentation is light-hearted, but there is a lot of fluff and nothing you haven't already heard before. Despite the other ho-hum reader reviews I bought this book. Don't make the same mistake I did. It's not worth the price.
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Summary: The Best Web Design Book Ever made
Review: Flanders & Willis tackle real-world design issues giving you straight foward answers. The book assumes you know some code. It's great to hear some great opinions. The book opened my eyes to issues I never thought of before. Buy this book and don't lose it!
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