Creating Killer Web Sites (2nd Edition)

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Summary: Too quick to praise?
Review: I'm sorry fellow websters, but open your eyes, your minds, and your imagination. David Siegel does provide some worthwhile tips and common sense graphic solutions but enough to warrant all this praise? I doubt it. It was a book that had to happen, I'm glad it did, but if David Siegel is anything, he is a marketing genius. The world wanted it, it needed it, now it has it, now can we move on and find some real beauty in the design and shaping of this medium we like to call interactive online communication. I waiting to be WOWed in the way all of you seem to have been

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Summary: Informative, readable, aesthetically pleasing
Review: David Seigel is to web design what Cezanne was to painting. If that analogy eludes you, learn your art history! Seigel creates art where practicality reigned king for a quater of a century. Thank you David. One question: Is there a windows based counterpart planned?

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Summary: Siegel is the avant-garde web designer of the 21st century.
Review: Siegel shares his ideas passionately. His book is seductive. The more you read, the more you will read on. It will win your heart and captivate your mind. Programmers and computer geeks have destroyed the beauty of web design with avalanches of codes, tables, frames, scripts. But Siegel's Creating Killer Web Sites returns us to sanity; web design is an art. We need more appreciation for beauty, not codes. This book will rouse you every creative cell within you! It is a must read for every designer, novice or accomplished.

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Summary: A killer book!
Review: This is undoubtedly one of the best books on web design available. It speaks to the designer and not the techno-geek. Any monkey can learn HTML, but designing a great site takes much more. This book gave me many ideas for making my site KILLER!

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Summary: fine book, but not worth the hoopla
Review: This is an insightful book for those of us who have not taken the time to research Web design issues themselves. A lot of the tips in this book are simply compilations of others' ideas or pure common sense. As an anthology of good Web design, this book succeeds, but David Siegel is hardly a god! I wasn't exactly blown away by his ideas

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Summary: Ego Uber Alles only goes so far.
Review: Disappointing -- a handful of genuinely useful technical tips relating to image handling and the like are overshadowed by the egotistical rantings of a pompous blowhard whose design aesthetic varies from techno-gimmickry to bland imitation of printed media. Perhaps a helpful handbook for personal home page designers, but nothing of use for professional website developers, who likely strive for "elegant" and "functional" rather than "gee-whiz" or "killer".

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Summary: COOL!
Review: Love it! Not just another book that starts off with 9 chapters of internet history and html for idiots. This is a great guide to most of the tools needed for web development. Who cares if you know how to hash out pages and pages of HTML and java? If you don't know how to put all the pieces together as this book shows how to do then you are wasting your time.

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Summary: Expand your understanding of Web site design
Review: This is a "must have book" to build innovative Web sites. Too often we see the 'Net crowded with web pages that appeal to software programmers only. David Siegel will guide you to new dimensions in the art of web design. For information on how to make your site World-Wide-Ready and appeal to the multi-cultural and multi-lingual audience on the 'Net, send your queries to: [e-mail] or visit the SILICON VALLEY LOCALIZATION FORUM at: htpp://www.tiziana.com

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Summary: Conversation on Webpage Design...
Review: .. Really, all my knowledge in web design came from experience and reading. My gosh, this is THE BEST website I've ever come across that talks on web design that not only reaffirms my beliefs, but has very enlightening facts! A MUST-SEE/READ site for novices to specialists

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Summary: Fab...
Review: As a journalist writting about the Web into its graphical side, as a photographer dealing with the problems of using the wired medium and as a "want to be" page designer (a nice way to know what Iam writting about), I've looked through some books on the art, and David Siegel's work is just the most up-to-date, looking at the future, informative and fresh (as a fish ?) collection of info, advice, fun and tips you can find anywhere on cyberspace. A book that when comes to print is still pointing at tomorrow, something that is hard to say about other books on the Web. I would write more, but Iam gonna HTMLing for the third generation (just got a new idea from the book) because that's a urge you get from the pages of Creating Killer Websites. Thanks David