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Summary: Hard to beat this jumpstart book!
Review: I bought this book to use as a reference to some projects that I was working on and it has proven to be a great book. I have picked it up a number of times since I first read it. This book will continueally guide you to better web graphic design. It is a very fast read and it's concepts are clear and precise. There are a few typos, but none serious enough to effect the value of this book. If you are looking to combine your web graphics into other forms of web media this book includes some of the simple steps to create flash movies and director objects. I would recommend this book to anyone wishing to get a better understanding of how web graphics work.
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Summary: Sloppy errors make me unsure of what info to trust!
Review: I noticed several content errors right off the bat and now I'm not sure if I can trust ANY of the advice in the book. The first error I noticed would cause my pages to have broken graphic icons! Is Lynda Weinman resting on her laurels here and getting lazy?
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Summary: Designing Web Graphics.3
Review: I think Lynda Weinman is an excellent teacher. She explains technical information clearly and from the point of view of a designer. She uses a language anyone can understand. This is an excellent book and resource.
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Summary: Good Suggestions
Review: I took the plunge and laid out the bucks for this rather expensive book. You do get a lot of good examples of graphics, however. The best part of the book for me is the way Ms. Weinman shows the reader the results of using different techniques of using color and reproducing graphics on a web site. Her technical expertise is evident. The portions that relate to the use of HTML and javascript are not as well done, however. The author states up front that HTML and programming is not her strength, so one has to take that into account when she presents code on the page that really does not get explained very well. If you are looking for a book that has code you can copy on your own page, I would not recommend this book; but if you are looking for a good overview on using color and graphics, Ms. Weinman does a good job.
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Summary: April 1999?
Review: I would buy this but geepers, it's getting pretty old. The date refers to when it was released, not when it was written, so keep in mind it probably took 6 months to write. I wish they would withdraw some of these books once they got to a certain age and/or make it a bit clearer if and when they have been updated, because a lotta lotta stuff has happened in the last three years. That's an eternity in internet terms. I have to worry that a lot of the stuff in this book is no longer up to date (like web safe colors, fast becoming last year's problem)Does this book even mention microsoft.net? Today they released flash mx, and so on and so on. If you write a book for the net, why not update it each year? I'm fed up with being stuck with books that have old information in them, going to the trouble of memorising and becoming aquainted with stuff, and then finding there are better+newer+different ways of doing it. It's not like these books are cheap either. I want my books up to date, and I'm willing to pay more for something that is going to at least last me a little while. April 1999, that's just too long ago.
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Summary: You've got to be kidding me...
Review: I've been working in the technology sector since 1992, and the internet specifically since 1995. I've trained over 10,000 students in web based technologies and software. Never before have I seen such a self aggrandizing tone taken in instructional literature. Ms. Weinman and her husband Bruce Heavin seem to have made a cottage industry of publishing books informing you just how vast their personal knowledge is, and how you can see this knowledge demonstrated by buying another of their titles which will discuss in detail what the chapter in the book you're presently reading tactfully avoids. Though I can't call into question her personal design skills in a larger sense, her web design knowledge is perhaps on par with some of the design school undergrads I've had the pleasure of employing as interns. Though from the impression one gets reading her books, she (to borrow a contemporary witticism) "nearly invented web design". She and Mr. Heavin are yet another in a long line of individuals who have taken their reputation in one field and attempted to parlay it into guru-ship in another hot-topic, "buzz" category. The unfortunate thing is, they appear to have succeeded. Alas, the ones to suffer are the budding web designers who are given their books as instructional material and swallow it as gospel.
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Summary: You already know 70 percent...
Review: If you (have to) make pages for a living, chances are you already know 70 percent. Designing Web Graphics 3 focuses too much on HTML, but fails to do that thoroughly. I understand why it's in there, but I don't need tutorials on frames and tables. Buy this [expensive!] book for the other 30% you might not know..
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Summary: THE reference book for Web Graphics
Review: If you are a graphic designer looking to start web work, this book is a must read. If you are already a web designer, it is a great reference book. This book taught me more than any teacher ever did.
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Summary: Great Beginner/Intermediate Web Design Book!
Review: If you're looking for a single-source starter kit for web design, this book is hard to beat. Lots of useful information, tips and ideas packed into one easy-reading book. Lynda Weinman's writing and teaching style is very easy to understand and enjoyable. This book covers a wide range of topics so you get a little bit of everything. I recommend this book to everyone who is trying to get into web design as a career or hobby.
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Summary: Great Beginner/Intermediate Web Design Book!
Review: If you're looking for a single-source starter kit for web design, this book is hard to beat. Lots of useful information, tips and ideas packed into one easy-reading book. Lynda Weinman's writing and teaching style is very easy to understand and enjoyable. This book covers a wide range of topics so you get a little bit of everything. I recommend this book to everyone who is trying to get into web design as a career or hobby.
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