Websights: The Future of Business and Design on the Internet

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Summary: Insightful? Irrelevant? Depends what chapter you're on.
Review: ad creation to typography to the latest lingo. With articles focused from beginner to advanced, print background to web design protégé, designer to project manager, "Websights" works well for that handful of jack-of-all-trades in the industry.

For the greater part of today's design world whom are specialized, they will find a number of articles that offer tremendous insight and fresh ideas that they can incorporate. Leaving a number of chapters that can be appreciated, but are of no real relevance to today's digital designer

Rating:
Summary: Insightful? Irrelevant? Depends what chapter you're on.
Review: ad creation to typography to the latest lingo. With articles focused from beginner to advanced, print background to web design protégé, designer to project manager, "Websights" works well for that handful of jack-of-all-trades in the industry.

For the greater part of today's design world whom are specialized, they will find a number of articles that offer tremendous insight and fresh ideas that they can incorporate. Leaving a number of chapters that can be appreciated, but are of no real relevance to today's digital designer

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Summary: Misleading title
Review: Basically, a collection of magazine-depth articles about a variety of topics ranging from industy jargon to education to internet radio. One topic that is oddly absent is "The Future of Business and Design".

A few of the authors prognosticate superficially about their chosen subjects, but for the most part this is a book about current trends. Given the life span of most things on the web, this book will probably be obsolete by this time next year.

For people just getting out of school or entering the "online industry" for the first time this could be a fairly enlightening tome. For those already in the field, I would say it's a fun read, but only mildly interesting.

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Summary: Not all that
Review: Book is informative with content of articles about the web but not really impressed with the collection of example websites or lack there of. The cover is nicely designed but if you are looking for a book with lots of examples and inspiration to draw from this book is not it. I don't recommend buying this book. Just hope that it is on someone's coffee table so you can browse it.

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Summary: From one of the authors
Review: I'd agree with most of the comments above, I think the book is spread quite thinly across a number of areas, so perhaps doesn't give the depth some might need.

At the same time at least some of the content is quite technical and will go straight over the head of a real novice.

I think if you're a design student, a recent graduate, or someone attempting to get to grips with new media you'll probably benefit from this book.

For the chapter I wrote... I think it's really geared towards people with a pretty good understanding of typography already, and definitely slanted towards those building large scale sites on tight/continuing deadlines for a wide variety of systems and browsers.

And, for sure it'll be out of date pretty quick... but you can learn from our mistakes :-)

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Summary: It teaches nothing. But reveals a lot.
Review: If you're a newbie to the Web Development arena, step back. This book is meant for Web Developers who are already experienced with WebDev technologies and that has a professional grasp of their ability, so that they can exploit the ideas and potential this book has. It has very nice and clever ideas for web designs and can very well inspire the creative developers among us. But again, it won't teach you anything about web technologies, it'll mearly show you the door, you'll the be the one to walk through it.