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Summary: Makes a stong argument for thoughtful Website design.
Review: I found the beginning of this book to be very informative and thought provoking. The first two and a half chapters provide a compelling discussion of the need for Information Architects and the roles they should play. The rest of the book was less interesting review of some basic organizational concepts with outdated examples. I just didn't learn that much in the second half of the book.
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Summary: It's too bad I can only give this book 5 stars...
Review: This is an extremely valuable book for anyone who is pondering the question of site design. One of the things I really like about this book is that it takes a theoretical turn--theory that is rooted in practice--but still theory. There are many books out there that cram seven or eight hundred pages of detail down your throat that don't begin to reach the depth of understanding of this book.
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Summary: It's contents will be a must for my pupils
Review: I have learned a lot about what the title says. Sometimes whe trend to learn and learn tools for the web and don't think about the human way of understanding and retrieving information. I will add new contents to my pupils and surely will make profit of it.
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Summary: An excellent resource and enjoyable read.
Review: I've just started on chapter 4 and already I've begun to critically examine the web pages of other sites and had wished the designers of those web sites had read this book. If you want your intended web audience to frequent your site, I highly recommend this book and watch your counter take off.
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Summary: Practical alternative to the "Get on the Web" mentality.
Review: While some people tell you it is essential to get on the web, and naysayers tell you to wait, Rosenfeld and Morville show you when and how to get on the web. Most importantly, they tell you how to do it well, and how to keep your pages usable and maintainable.
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Summary: An indispensible resource for site design
Review: This is a great book. It focusses on site, rather than page design, and helps you take the step back and think about how it all fits together. I was unhappy with my site design and navigation elements until I read this book and followed its advice. I wish the site search tools vendors would learn from this book -- there is so much they could do better, and most of it is described here!
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Summary: Best of Breed
Review: After searching high and low for books, web sites, reference materials, you name it, I finally found this one. It is an excellent resource for anyone planning to deploy a web site or redesigning a poorly conceived site. It is now a permanent part of my web admin collection (right along side my HTML manuals and server documentation).
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Summary: Indispensable.
Review: This book is all the common knowledge about site design in one place. If everyone followed the sensible approach contained in this book, we'd be a lot better off.
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Summary: A must read for large and small site design
Review: This book should be essential reading for any person involved in not only large scale site design, but small as well. The concepts they discuss are geared towards companies with 80,000+ pages, but I found myself taking notes on what to improve next time I design a 10+ page site. Don't get this book if you're looking for ideas for the "look" of the site. It doesn't offer any. Instead if gives you ideas on how to increase its functionality, efficiency, and ease of usage -- concepts many of us ignore in our excitement for spinning logos and flaming navbars. Some concepts they discussed were "common sense", but many of them were not, especially when discussing how to organize everyone from the marketing dept. to the artists of a company web site and pre-launch discussion of a site before the designing begins. You'll want this one on the shelf for that next major project.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book is a great primer for anyone new to developing on the web as well as web veterans. It really hits home on a lot of the "real world" snags that you will encounter. I recommend it to anyone in web development, it provides good core methodology for many of the processes you encounter regularly. Some sections are too simplistic and a bit wordy but overall it is a good read.
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