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Summary: Dominate the web. Give this book to your competitors.
Review: The author suggests using Photoshop to design your web pages,so you can have "the right amount of control over the display ofinformation". Which means he has never passed Web101, where they teach you that the web is about coding ***structure***, not form. Then, he goes on and on and on and on showing tricks that guarantee your page is a complete clutter you will never want to maintain. Then he shows you the cream of his crop, along with other people's works he deems to be "in the top 5% of the web"
Only, it's the top 5% of that large percentage of the web that really, really sucks, plus it was not made by a couple of teenagers in a weekend (we're talking Serious Graphic Designers here), plus somebody had to yank out lots of good cash to have.
What you really get is a gallery of really lame, hyped, self-important stuff that makes "multimedia CD-ROMs" even interesting in comparison.
Cash that may have gone into some serious project, for instance.
This author's idea of a website is that it should compel the visitor, guide him, entertain him, tickle him while of course keeping him from deciding anything for himself.
Can you spell television?
Anyway, before buying, go to this guy's site, www.killersites.com, and see for yourself.
Walter Vannini, Internet consultant
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Summary: Creating Killer Web Sites is helpful, but a bit lacking.
Review: Creating Killer Web Sites gives lots of very helpful hints andtips to help you, well, create a killer web site. However, many of hisown tricks that a person would love to understand are left out, for no reason. These things leave you with an empty feeling, after reading the book.
All in all, Creating Killer Web Sites is a very good book, however it is still lacking a bit more than most books of this fashion.
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Summary: A gift of the Magi that worked "magic" with my work.
Review: When I received this book last holiday season, it was like agift from the heavens. My eyes were opened as I received arevelation: I had the power and potential to create great web designs--I just needed the guiding hand of "Killer Web Sites." After feasting on the book, I was eager to put my newfound knowledge to work. And work it did. While previously potential employers had rated my work as "beginner-level," I am now receiving recommendations and high accolades from freelance clients. Thanks David! Just one thing...why doesn't your website use the design techniques purported in your book?
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Summary: All things said...still a good book.
Review: Alright, so Siegel has an ego. So do most successfulindividuals in this country. The issue is not ego here, it'sinformation. The simple fact is that CKWS is a good reference. Not definitive, but good. This book assisted me with the re-working of my previous sites and gave me some inspiration for new ones. The idea of the "entry tunnel" was a great one, if slightly overused. The "single-pixel GIF trick" is also a very handy notion for paragraph indentation, image alignment, etc... But as is so very common these days, there are two "camps" voicing their own philosophy about Web design. These two would be the "artsy folk" and the "techies". My opinion is simply to let 'em argue, and just listen closely to everything they have to say...
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Summary: Good Book, but a lot of wasted writing and complex nonsence.
Review: When I bought this book, I was looking forward to reading abook on the design of good-looking web sites. Although, yes, therewere some interesting things in this book, the author all too often would get sidetracked from the problem he was addressing. The two chapters on PDF were horribly a waste of book space, and meant nothing to the web designer. I found some more HTML tags, and some more table work teachings in this book. The one thing that really bothered me was 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Generation sites. Who is the author to decide which is which. The author's idea of long "entry tunnels" make no sense in the real web world, where people want info, without much wait. I do enjoy one splash screen and then entrance into the site. BUT 5 SCREENS?! Overall, this book deserves a 6, and a small recomendation for the web designer who is looking for a long lecture.
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Summary: taste is subjective
Review: Sort of interesting and a few web tricks. Aside from theauthor's ego, which is almost laughable, look at his sites. they're ayawn, especially considering all the time he spent designing them. the best example is of the Jimtown store. I've been to both the store and the site and the site doesn't even come close to refecting the store. Seigel spends paragraphs explaining how he came up with his ideas and their execution but it's a very mediocre site. He's an OK technician but his design taste is very first generation.
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Summary: Artists say: "Pure genius!" Techies say: "Egomanical crap!"
Review: David Siegel has accomplished one impressive feat with thisbook: he has widened even further the gap between so-called creativeartistic types and so-called techie types. But--his pompous comments about "the realm of the dictatorial artist" (i.e., the whiny child) notwithstanding--at the same time that he encourages divisiveness between these "camps", he offers occasionally solid advice to people on both sides of this fence that he seems to enjoy building (and painting) all by himself. In fact, some of his tips and techniques (including the 1x1 image pre-download trick and his advice on proper antialiasing of images intended to be transparent) mark this man as, not an artist at all, but a techie of the first water! (And I mean that only in the nicest way! :-) If you can get past the egomania and obsession with tortured-artist-syndrome, there are real pearls of wisdom in here for both "artist" and "techie". And let's be serious, anyone who pigeonholes themselves into either category shouldn't be designing web sites, should they? Clement Mok's "Designing Business" may be a better overview of the issues of overall site design, but believe it or not, this book has real value as a compendium of GOOD and occasionally GREAT *technical* advice. From an artist who seems to loathe techies. Go figure...
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Summary: Good tips, but very Netscape & Mac oriented
Review: Design rather than technically oriented. Biasedtoward Mac and Netscape. Spends too much timedescribing Netscape's self proclaimed color standard but does not compare to Microsoft's colors or give the Explorer browser equal time. Some info is already obsolete, and Explorer deserves more coverage, but overall a pretty good book. - Deborah Flynn Perkins
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Summary: Go to his site...
Review: The proof is in the pudding. Or some such. Before you buy this book, do two things: turn image loading off in your favorite browser, and go to Mr. Seigel's site at:
<http://www.killersites.com>
That should tell you all you need to know. (And if you want some real fun, validate any of the pages in the site...)
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Summary: if you get this book, don't pay more than Amazon's price
Review: This book is perhaps more useful for the Web as it might be,rather than as it is right now. Scan it, borrow it from a friend orlibrary, DON'T do what I did, which was to pay $45 for it. Instead of "bang" for the buck, this was more like "phfffft."
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