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Summary: First-rate, usable content; delightful read.
Review: From inception to design, execution, maintenance, and marketing, WPTS is a thorough guide and delightful read.For many, some of the material isn't new. But that's fine; with so many Dr. Frankensteins on the web creating eye-popping, bandwidth hogging sites, lacking in content, it's a good refresher. My only constructive addendum: too many cute pictures of the authors and canned photo backdrops. On balance, though, the "content" -- and the author's credo is "content is king" -- is superlative.
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Summary: THE BEST TIME YOU'LL EVER HAVE LEARNING ABOUT THE WEB!!
Review: Here's the straight dope on the World Wide Web- the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Movies have Siskel and Ebert...Web sites have Flanders and Willis. If you design Web sites, plan to build one, or are just an active surfer, you need to hear what they have to say. Funny, opinionated, and always to-the-point, Flanders and Willis have developed a reputation for being the Web's leading critics. They'll teach you all about: What works, what utterly sucks, and how to fix it
Creating enticing content and graphics-and keeping it all fresh
Avoiding injury at the hands of bleeding-edge technologies
Marketing your site, generating traffic, and making money Pepsi...Coors...Microsoft-No Site Is Spared!
Flanders and Willis rip bad pages to shreds-and then show you who's doing it right.
Written for the rest of us, Web Pages That Suck demystifies the "big guys" and passes along all the tools you need to be a player on the Web. Based on the wildly popular, award-winning site WebPagesThatSuck.com... web awards:
PC Magazine: The Top 100 Web Sites
c/net: Best of the Web
USA Today: Hot Site
Featured on CNN's Computer Connection
Profiled on the cover of Web Week Check Out the CD for Software That Doesn't Suck
HomeSite 3, GIF Builder, GIFMation, Coffee Cup Stylesheet Maker++, HTML Rename!, Web Razor, and more. Praise for Web Pages That Suck: "Finally a book that exposes Web disasters -- and most importantly, allows YOU to avoid making the same mistakes."
Dr. Jakob Nielsen Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer and Web Usability Guru "I was drunk. Someone stole my 216 color palette. The dog ate my ALT tags. Whatever the excuse, Flanders and Willis point out the boneheaded mistakes that we've all made as Web designers. More importantly, they note how to avoid making the same mistakes again."
Matt Straznitskas President, BrainBug, LLC "Flanders and Willis teach critical ideas and oft-overlooked methods of design. Web Pages that Suck is like the Web; engaging, funny, sometimes ridiculous and always a memorable experience."
Molly E. Holzschlag author * instructor * designer "My favorite thing about this book is that it doesn't just show you how to build great Web sites, it helps you make your existing sites better. My second favorite thing is that DaveCentral isn't mentioned as a sucky site."
Dave Franklin Head Geek, DaveCentral.com "Flanders and Willis give a no-nonsense look at what NOT to do with a Web site. Simutaneously, they offer an excellent overview of how to get return visitors to your site again and again. Web Pages That Suck is a must-have desk reference for the web professional and an excellent teaching tool that I plan to use in my classes."
B.K. DeLong Director, New England Chapter, National Association of Webmasters
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Summary: THIS IS THE 1st BOOK TO BUY TO LEARN TO CREATE A GOOD SITE
Review: I AM A SLOW READER JUST SO THAT I CAN COMPREHEND WHAT I AM READING. THIS BOOK WAS A PIECE OF CAKE!!! THE TIP & TRICKS THAT THEY INCLUDE THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE BOOK ARE GREAT & VERY IMFORMATIVE. (YOU SHOULD SEE MY BOOK, I HAVE 50 PAGE CORNERS FOLDED & TONS OF PAGES THAT I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED). YOU NEED TO EVEN LOOK AT THEIR WEBSITE AFTER YOU ARE DONE WITH THIS VERY COLORFUL BOOK. I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT AS MUCH AS I DID.
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Summary: good pointers for beginners, despite some inaccuracies
Review: I bought this book for one reason: there is a double-page spread concerning Pepsi.com (pages 32-33). It made me laugh, because I was the webmaster for Pepsi.com when this book came out. They were viewing the site out of the context of the frame it was supposed to be in (they purposely launched a new browser window from within the fixed-sized frame and maximized the window to show a tiling background), which was misleading and a bit inflamatory to those of us who slave over a site that at the time was around 650MB per issue and changed top to bottom every single month. The screenshot they got of the site was also of a help screen that was up for about 1 week and then altered. The entire site is done in Flash, now, and a lot of the cross-browser, cross-platform issues that were such a barrier in the past are now a moot point. They point out some valid points about contrast, abuse of animation, but this is a book best suited for beginning designers, not seasoned pros. They haven't come out with a newer volume and despite the description of this book (I am submitting a revision today) as being a 1998 book, the copyright of the book I have (same ISBN number) is 1996. That's 28 in dog years and a millenium in web years. While good design is still good design, despite the year, even casual surfers who've been surfing for a few months will find some of this info old-hat. I must admit that it's a little unfair to criticize a technical book 4 years after it hit the shelves, but my main criticisms are the same as when I first purchased the book a few years ago. Even then, there were many free on-line tutorials that covered the same topic of basic design and definite design faux pas. I do keep this on my shelf in my office, the book is a nicely presented volume and clients find it quite amusing... but other than that... eck.
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Summary: Best Book I have read regarding Web Development
Review: I can't say enough about this book. Well worth the read. I quickly found problems with my existing pages!!!!!! It should be required reading for anyone developing for the web. I Loved It....
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Summary: I don't get it
Review: I don't really have this book, but I looked at their website and it was bad! You should seriously check it out if you want to get this book. Just a warning
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Summary: Great book, great reading and very insightful.
Review: I found this book to be tremendously insightful. I can no longer look at web pages without critiquing them on the positives and negatives. Must read. I have read it 3 times.
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Summary: The best web design book ever!
Review: I loved the book! It make total sense without making me learn useless HTML code!! It was great!
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Summary: Occasionally humorous, but mainly fluff
Review: I picked up this book expecting to get some lessons in Website design, or at least some lessons in what NOT to do. What I found was a book full of personal judgements by two overweight and not very funny guys. This book is mainly fluff, with little to offer to make any type of recommendation to anyone.
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Summary: Fun and informative reading.
Review: I really enjoyed this book! The authors approach website design from a humourous angle. The book is full of practical information for those who have not yet created a website or for those who want to learn more about making and marketing a better site. This book is for both technical and non-technical readers. You definitely have to read this book if you are involved in any way with website design. However, I found that the book was quite repetitive. Various topics and anecdotes were repeated verbatim in several chapters. Also, if you have ever visited Vincent Flanders' website of the same name, you will be able to download much of the content of the book for free. His website contains numerous articles which are basically repeated in the book and a free chapter from the book. Finally, some of the sections of the book (such as creating a storyboard for site design) were quite skinny. I think the authors could have included a lot more information here to help guide a beginner through the design phase which they claim is the most critical to success of a website. Otherwise, a completely enjoyable book and I would buy it again without regrets.
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