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Summary: Well done!
Review: As a newcomer to web design, I find this book to be a wonderful tool. It provides the basic foundation on which to build your skills. The writer's down-to-earth style creates a pleasant reading experience. I would suggest this book to anyone new to the web design field or to those wishing for a sensible, to-the-point, easy-to-read guide to web design.
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Summary: Nothing New Here
Review: Don't pay any attention to 'Sleepless in San Franscisco'. This book is awful. I've read better instructions from my college roommate. She's not technical either! But at least she has an intelligent thought.Don't bother buying this drivel.
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Summary: An excellent concise overview
Review: I thing that this book is very appropriate in detail for the size. it covers all of the important points of Web design from a design, not technical, prespective. Important subjects like usability,navigation, and optimization are introduced well. And those are often given short-shift from bulkier books. I suspect that those who weren't happy with it were expecting a hard core technical reference. Who has time to read all that? There are plenty of books that go into detail about Web design and development but this book's strength is its brevity. For the price, this book can't be beat.
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Summary: Good beginner's guide
Review: Takes you step-by-step through the process of designing a Web site. Good advice and clear directions at every step.
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Summary: Save your time and money, unless you need a laugh.
Review: This book lacks any substance whatsoever. I was even more disappointed when I read the author's bio and found that he has no professional experience in web design. If you want a good book on web design, buy a book by an author that does this stuff in real life. Or better yet, take a course from Northeastern University.
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Summary: Why do the prettiest books have the worst content?
Review: This book may not be so bad for an absolute beginner if there were an instructor present for elaboration, follow-through, and correction. The author *does* at least hit on many of the key points one should be aware of. The book avoids all progress in web design technique worked out since 1996. There is no mention of HTML as a structural language rather than presentational. In the author's world, the efficiencies and power of Cascading Style Sheets just do not exist. The author shows his print world bias by recommending serif fonts for content (p.59). Not only is this an extreme minority viewpoint on the Web, it is very irresponsible to present this as accepted without presenting the majority point of view. The author also includes lots of old information and even grossly wrong information. He states that the average user is viewing a screen at 72dpi. A Web design expert should not be totally unaware that we in Windows have always been at 96dpi and even the new Macs (the obvious preference of the author) default to 96dpi. All right, not worth going on and on here. The book is pretty. Lots of flowing, colorful, Gaelic-style graphics. Another beautiful book best admired from afar.
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Summary: Why do the prettiest books have the worst content?
Review: This book may not be so bad for an absolute beginner if there were an instructor present for elaboration, follow-through, and correction. The author *does* at least hit on many of the key points one should be aware of. The book avoids all progress in web design technique worked out since 1996. There is no mention of HTML as a structural language rather than presentational. In the author's world, the efficiencies and power of Cascading Style Sheets just do not exist. The author shows his print world bias by recommending serif fonts for content (p.59). Not only is this an extreme minority viewpoint on the Web, it is very irresponsible to present this as accepted without presenting the majority point of view. The author also includes lots of old information and even grossly wrong information. He states that the average user is viewing a screen at 72dpi. A Web design expert should not be totally unaware that we in Windows have always been at 96dpi and even the new Macs (the obvious preference of the author) default to 96dpi. All right, not worth going on and on here. The book is pretty. Lots of flowing, colorful, Gaelic-style graphics. Another beautiful book best admired from afar.
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Summary: Save your time and money, unless you need a laugh.
Review: This book was a big disappointment. I returned it for another book when all that I could get was store credit. Save yourself the headache.
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Summary: Never Again!!!
Review: Yet another "how-to-guide" for web design. My wife purchased
the book because she thought she could hit the ground
running with creating a web page for her home business.
Well she hit the ground alright, and the cleanup wasn't
pretty. After many frustrating hours i recommended a
few good Internet sites on basic HTML and web design
which provided a step by step process for design and
gave a clear explanation of HTML "Tags" and formatting.
Save Your Money!!!!!
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