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Summary: An Architectural Perspective on Web Site Design
Review: Having read the author's first edition (and loving it), I didn't hesitate to risk $$ on what could have been a minor update. I wasn't disappointed.
David Siegel views web development and design with with an architect's vision. This is a rich exploration of layout tips, structure and navigation planning, human interface considerations, and graphic design guidelines. All the while, he keeps the user experience front and center. It's as if Siegel was showing the reader how to design a building optimized for the comfort and usability of its inhabitants.
Every once in a while, a bit of the old Siegel ego creeps out (e.g. touting the fonts he created). But that's a small annoyance for such an inspirational, easy-reading book.
Yeah, I still had to go back to the sites I manage and crunch out updates, with little time to tune everything to perfection. But the principles learned will surely manifest in my work over time, leading to a higher level of quality and customer satisfaction.
Highly recommended!
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Summary: Not Bad
Review: First, let me say that I'm sick of reading comments about this book that are a 1. In general this is an overal good book. You won't find anything new if you are already a serious designer, but will learn some new tips if you are a novice - intermidate level web designer. You will need a good experience in HTML in knowing how-to do good table structures and many other HTML elements. The key to good web design is tables, and this book does cover some of the better aspects of tables. If you are an experienced web designer, this book will only inspire you to try some new things. Although this book was/is good, I purchased it wanting to learn more about web design on Netscape/Photoshop for the PC, not MAC. David should wake up and smell the coffe, the future of the web is not the mac, but the PC. Also, this book does teach the fine art of 3rd generation web sites, but 3rd generation web sites have been around since the 3.0 Netscape browser, and david should've taught the fine art of 4th generation sites, which I was wanting to learn. I have more to say, but it's not worth typing.
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Summary: A great guide for anyone designing WebSites.
Review: This 2nd edition builds extensively on the tips Dave Siegel presented in the 1st edition of Creating Killer Web Sites. The 1st edition inspired me to learn to hand code HTML (not hard with Laura Lamay's book on HTML), acquire Adobe Photoshop and get on the Web. Dave's tips on single-pixel gifs, the use of tables for spatial control of your design, and now non-breaking spaces are worth the price of the book even if he didn't include state-of-the-art advice on design, typography, image manipulation, and getting around browser limitations. The book itself is a 3rd generation work-of-art. Reading it is an esthetic experience in itself. I used Dave's advice extensively in creating my WebSite to sell a book I wrote on off-road driving (www.4x4road.com). I'm a neurosurgeon, not a graphic designer, and I don't pretend to have broken the 3rd generation barrier with my own Site, but I'm a lot closer than I would have been without the help of Dave's book. It's a must read not only for anyone designing their own site, but also for anyone who's communicating with a designer for the creation of a WebSite. Dr. Brad DeLong, San Francisco.
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Summary: Killer Web Sites is generally good but needs more detail
Review: Siegel's Killer Web Sites is generally a good book but really talks more about an attitude toward the web rather than dealing with what the web tries to offer, content. A third generation site is a good idea but Siegel tries too hard to make the argument that a third gen. site is the best way to approach web site design. You really need to get over Siegel's ego to enjoy this book. Sure, he has his following and there are many good points in his book. I trust that you will come away with some fresh ideas, however, I hope this is truely the last from Siegel on this subject.
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Summary: It is a book every Web publisher should have.
Review: "Creating Killer Web Sites" inspired me to re-design my Web site. I appreciate the useful tips on page and graphic layouts. I especially enjoyed the author's true artistic approaches to creating Web sites as opposed to using simple and common tricks. Although I don't place my site in the category of Killer Web site, I have received many compliments from people who stumbled upon it. I am truly glad that I read this book. Chiya Li
President
Digital Paws Inc.
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Summary: Finally, we are going beyond the electronic page.
Review: David Siegel does in this book what countless authors have missed in their books: the fact that the web is truly not electronic paper. The web is a format with which you express ideas in a radically different form. Sigel paves the way into the next frontier of web design, where the user will be greeted at an entrance, go through "tunnels," where the user will be able to see a type of visual summary of the site, and finally arrive at the core page, which has long been a homepage. The author's distinctive writing style helps the reader actually understand the vivid details the author is trying to place into the reader's head. This is a truly magnificent piece of work, combining principles in basic architecture and art to make the web a much more interesting place. This book reiterates that to achieve a masterpiece you need one percent inspiration, and nintey-nine percent perspiration. Well done.
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Summary: [IT] Ottimo per l'impegno di ricerca, divulgativo, ben fatto
Review: Credo di essere stato uno dei primi acquirenti di questo libro giunto come la manna dal cielo in pochi giorni. Il contenuto allora era emotivamente coinvolgente, chiaro nelle spiegazioni, va al sodo di quello che va fatto spiegando perche'. Aspetto una traduzione italiana, e la 2 edizione.
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Summary: Worth buying even if you read the first edition
Review: Dave Siegel's rewrite of his classic "Creating Killer Web Sites" contains enough new information to be worth buying even if you read the first edition. Besides bringing us up to date on current and future developments such as Cascading Style Sheets and new graphics formats, Dave admits to having found better ways of doing several things since the first edition, and he shares his new knowledge with us. For example, the inventor of the "single-pixel GIF" now feels that it is generally more effective to use nonbreaking spaces to control layout, and he shows us how. My only caveat would be that this is not a book for someone who has no experience with HTML, as Dave himself points out. Also, his sections on graphic design and layout assume that everyone has access to Photoshop version 4.0.1. For those of us stuck with Microsoft Image Composer or Paint Shop Pro, some of the information will not be useful. But all in all, the book is well worth the money. (I stayed up all night reading it!)
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Summary: A very good book for introduction to web design
Review: Okay, I admitted this is a good book also for experienced users, at least to remind them about the basic principles of web design. But the strongest point of the book is its ability to introduce the concept of web designing is different from desktop publishing. So the newbies will learn about the the correct usage gifs, jpg, and the interactivity of web site. I strongly suggest for newbies this is the RIGHT book to start.
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Summary: Old News - advanced web designers should look elsewhere
Review: If you've been designing for the Web for more than about 6 months you won't find much to hold your interest in this book. It's chock full of the same old tired information about GIF compression, table layout, etc, that any serious web developer learned long ago. Yawn.
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