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Summary: The Tekton of design books!!
Review: Sure am glad someone gave me this one, as I wasn't about toshell out for it. It is inspiring though; makes me want to write abook called "All about the way I do things" with at least one chapter called "All about me!". Maybe two chapters called that.
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Summary: A dumb blonde.
Review: The strong point of this book is Gino Lee'sfabulous design. But the writing rarely goesbeyond the obvious. And the fundamental idea, the "third generation web site" has nothing to it: if you turn the diagram of the "second generation" site 90 degrees, it is the same as the graph of the "third generation" site.
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Summary: CAN YOU SAY H-Y-P-E ?
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This book is all about hype and marketing. David Siegelis a marketing genius over the web. I wish David would write a book onhis tactics of pumping up the hype on his book. I would buy that book in a heartbeat.
However in web design, David Siegel has a nose stuck high in the air and gets flat out snooty on design issues. I think we can think for ourselves for design's sake. Killer sites is out of date on technology and isn't as up to date or in depth on web design issues. Siegel considers himself some sort of design god. However I think he has a long ways to go with his high end of mediocrity in design before he can award himself any more high fives.
This book needs a serious revision, and overhaul of it's content. I have learned alot from this book through little nuggets of information, but it's age has come and past. Web design is now in it's 4th Generation.
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Summary: The best book on Web design. Period.
Review: There's nothing wrong with this book a little humility or anew, expanded edition wouldn't cure. Definitely NOT writing fortouchy-feely, warm-and-fuzzy types, Siegel is much more high-minded (and high-handed) than Lynda Weinman, but he is also a bit more advanced in his approach (n.b.: I've only read <deconstructing web graphics> and <coloring web graphics>, so Ms. Weinman may well make up the difference in her <designing web graphics> book). Siegel's writing is very much like that of the typographer Jan Tschichold, who Siegel greatly (and with ample reason) admires. You'll either love this book or hate it. Either way, you will learn from it.
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Summary: Extraordinaire en Anglais E x t r a o r d i n a r y
Review: This was a well-written documentation to designers from adesigner, explained in such a fashion that made you want to go to thenext page. All too often, everyone and their gardner is an expert on design and designing.^M^MThe key to learning not only involves knowing what to not do, but knowing what to do in a manner that also allows you the room for interpretation and creative freedom. ^M^MI enjoyed the book and definitely do not regret spending the bucks to get it.
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This is the bible of web design.^MCouldn't live without it. Gives you all the answers to the questionsthat all designers will have. Plus its site "killersites.com" provides additional plug-ins and essential downloads for design.^M Wendy Troncone^M Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co.
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Summary: At last, more design and less geek
Review: Great book, could have had better explanation on a fewthings. Indespensible for designers.
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Summary: I choked. I gagged. Then it nearly killed me!
Review: Having not been able to get past David's use of the word"I" in massive repition in his own egotistitcal and selfcenter proclaiming manner. I must admit that the book had to be returned. The book is a bad place to go for Photoshop instruction since it isn't complete. He does an ok job talking about web graphics, but isn't complete or percice like that of Lynda Weinman's "Designing Web Graphics.2". The book pulls short in a variety of ways as it tries to cover too much territory and be a everything book. I just couldn't read the content through his promotion of his own company. My recremendation is that you find a good photoshop book, and Lynda Weinman's Designing Web Graphics.2 book. His ideas on design are very one sided. Don't make the mistake I made.
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Summary: Some useful stuff and challenging ideas, but some problems
Review: Lots of nice tips and tricks for formatting when using graphics, but I thought some arrogance regarding the practicality of the Net. Not everybody has a T1 line. 30% of people browse with graphics off. Facts like these militate against major graphic intensive pages especially when you're browsing from this end of the world (New Zealand) which is a very long cable from anywhere. And it irritates me for someone to advocate 'breaking' or 'getting around' something like HTML (which, as a standard for communication, has more value than just for making pretty pictures) in order to give free rein to their artistic nature. However, some will no doubt regard David Siegel as a pioneer.
Still, I learnt a lot of good things in terms of designing for the subject and using (and misusing) graphics and the colour cube explanation was very helpful. But I'm glad I got work to buy the book and not me (because it was very expensive here - $NZ 117.95 [and that's not all exchange rate differences!]!). Tha
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Summary: Great! Lot's of useful info and tips.
Review: This book was interesting, as it gives good examples of great web sites andcovers almost (if not) all of the key points in creating them. There was great advice on use of images, using forms to format information in a useful way, and what to and not do do while creating web sites
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