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Summary: Excellent guide to taking your web site to the next level.
Review: I thought at first this book might be a little over the top especially for the very conservative company that I work for and the site that I maintain. However, while there was some stuff too avant garde for our site the very cool tips and tricks were more than worth the cost of admission, I highly recommend it
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Summary: Counter-revolutionary
Review: I've used this book and learned from it. Probably a good book for graphic designers who have little or no web experience.
Ultimately, though, this book runs counter to the web medium. It will tell you how to make webpages that emulate the graphic character of printed pages. That makes for some pretty screens, by conventional design standards. (When you have the "right" browser, sufficient bandwidth, and don't mind the wait.)
There is no book, so far as I know--email if you know of one--that really does design on the web's own terms. This one doesn't--you get websites that look like hypertextual brochures. Pretty, but not quite what the medium is looking for, seems to me.
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Summary: Paying Someone to Create Your First Web Site???
Review: I would not let anyone create a web site for me who hasn't first read this book. This book is for those who are creating their first website and who want to fully understand the marketing aspects of the web. I couldn't put it down. Explanation of a first, second and third generation website are outstanding. Design is what keeps them coming
back - this book is invaluable.
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Summary: Glitz and glamor sells magazines, why not the web...
Review: So many books on the subject of Web design that a person could spend hours just perusing the titles. David's foray into the market leaves the reader wondering if there is anyone else who designs pages besides Mr. Siegel, (at least if your were to ask him). It's true that the book and his site is visually apealling to the reader/visitor, beyond that... well, I hate to use quotes but "Content is King" and the content is not reinforced enough in this book or in the companion site. As the internet becomes more and more choked with new surfers jumping online everyday web designers must constanly provide content to visitors of all kinds, this includes text only browsers! If you buy this book make sure that you'll be able to get your money back after you get it home and find out that you've been gyped
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Summary: not bad
Review: Good for beginners and ok for <b>experienced</B> users
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Summary: Seigel made a fortune off other people's ideas...
Review: This book is so original that Seigel didn't even dream up the concept of "Killer" Web sites or even "Third Generation" Web sites. Talk about a load of crap. Yet he has managed to turn that load of crap into a mountain because of all the idiots carrying on the controversy over his book. WAKE UP the only controversy is the one Seigel invented
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Summary: This book and $2.99 will get you a Big Mac
Review: I agree with a recent reviewer that said a good book should focus on design, content and execution. Rather than only design. Truth be told Creating Killer Web Sites preaches a lot of design hocus pocus. I too put in a vote for a solid well focused book rather than a book that only covers design (and design from a very narrow minded focus at that). I too say Web Publishing Unleashed Professional Reference is the book to teach you design, content and execution. Still. If you find that you must get a design book you could do worse than Creating Killer Web sites
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Summary: A hodge-podge of bad ideas
Review: I tried to find something good about this book. Really I did. I tried to get past his ego. Really I did. It can't be done. Really, it can't.
For those who don't want to purchase and read the book, I can sum up the book in three points:
1) Use graphics in lieu of text, and don't use ALT tags, rendering your site totally unusable to people with text browsers or graphics turned off.
2) Don't use any HTML tags that do page layout formatting, as these may make your site look good to non-graphical browsers.
3) Above all, don't do anything that I don't tell you to.
Someone should tell him that there is more to the Internet than Microsoft and Netscape. The Internet is all about cross-compatibility. He goes directly against that, encouraging beauty as a trade-off for usability and compatibility. Any site I design looks good in Netscape, but at least you can still navigate it with a browser like Lynx. He can't say the same for his sites. Any long-term designer will tell you, this is HTML at its worst.
There's also a phrase that says "form follows function." He would like you to think it's "form IS function." It's not. As beautiful as his site is, it takes too horribly long to load...about three pages in I got tired of waiting and went off somewhere else. If you'd like the same response at your Web site, then please follow the guidelines in this book.
There's also more to the Net than him. He appears to think otherwise, and he doesn't refrain from flaunting it in this book. It's almost sickening.
Besides that, there's really not much else to it. I picked up a couple of Photoshop tips, tips I've now stopped using because I find them worthless.
I'm not sure if there is a good book on HTML, but this certainly isn't it.
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Summary: has good points, but don't use it as your bible
Review: This book has some excellent tips on preparing web graphics and web sites but you have to be careful. The first two chapters are 95% self-proclaiming babble about all that third-generation junk. Some of the ideas behind third-generation are good such as metaphors and entry pages but it's not the perfect or even best solution, yet he presents it like it's the holy grail. The worst thing about these two chapters is that he presents his opinions as fact and does so in a pompous and egotistical way. I would recommend that you start at chapter 3 and read from there (except for the chapter on pdf, it's worthless) and then go back and read the first two chapters. Overall, this is not the bible of web creation that david seigel and his supporters make it out to be, nor is it 100% junk as many feel. There are some very good suggestions and tecniques presented in the book that make it worthwhile reading, but before you buy it, try to get it from the library or borrow it from someone
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Summary: Very Good Book
Review: Creating Killer Web Sites is an impressive book, the bookitself is well laid out and the content couldn't be better. For thoseof you HTML purists who think that designers and conceptualists are ruining the web...don't read this book, but for those of you who know that good design and really cool layout is what gets people to come back to your site again and again...don't hesitate to purchase this book.
The only downside of this book is that all graphics design is done in Photoshop on a Macintosh, for those of us who don't use that system, or don't even use a comparable system, it's frustrating to try to do some of the things he explains in the book.
Overall however this book is a must buy for anyone who wants to have a web site that people will talk about and come back to again and again.
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