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Summary: Helpful, Easy To Use Book About Web Graphic Designing.
Review: This book contains so much information about the way you should prepare graphics for web use. You don't relize how many aspects you have to take into consideration until you read this book. It shows exactly how to slightly change your graphics to reduce the file size to make it load faster on the web. It also shows what software is good to use, and what kind of computer is best for certain types of editing. It also teaches HTML and talks about DHTML. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in graphic editing, web editing, or anyone who just wants to learn about graphics or learn about HTML tags.
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Summary: The audience is the thing
Review: This book is intended for a certain audience, and for that audience this book largely succeeds. If you have little knowledge of web design and basic graphical concepts, there are few books on the market which equal Weinman for her general advice. More advanced web authorers may well be able to pick apart the code she gives here as faulty in some regards, but for a general overview of basic concepts, she's hard to beat. I found her discussion of color use and image resolution to be particularly helpful at the time I read it, even though now I might regard that information as terribly basic. Weinman has a unique gift, I think, for teaching, and I found her writing style engaging, even if there were, as has been stated elsewhere, a few contentual errors. Of course, we're at a different point in web development than we were when this book was written almost a year ago. Now, many company websites give you much of this information as a part of their websites. Macromedia in particular has much of the advice of this book for free on its website--if you look for it. Who, then, should buy this book? I think if you have a less-than-stellar web connection, or have problems spending hours reading text from websites, or simply do better learning from a real book, this is a great starting point. Also, if you see teachers as fallible individuals whose value is principally in their ability to inspire less than in the absolute precision of their facts, this is your book as well. And if you want a great collection of well-organized references from which to continue your learning, this, too, is where you want to start. Weinman has saved her readers--especially those with slow ISPs--the bother of scouring the net for valuable design resources. There are hundreds of top-notch graphic design web sites listed here by content, which can well save you HOURS of searching if you have a slow web connection, or if your searching skills aren't what they might be. To be sure, there's valid criticism to make of this book. However, <designing web graphics.3> has so much potential applicability that a simple panning of it is entirely undeserved. If you know your way around any Macromedia(-like) product, you probably would think of this as a 1-star kind of book. But if, like its intended audience, you don't know a JPG from a hole in the wall, this is a 5-star effort.
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Summary: Wordy and MUCH to general to be useful...
Review: This book travels the same ground that several others do - just not as well! This coupled with the fact that the book is short on specifics and long on gereralities combines to make it a poor value. Also (PC users be ware) the screen shots are all Mac - a failing common to other books by this author. Bottom line - save your money and look elseware.
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Summary: A Huge Disapointment
Review: This book was the first and only book I have bought from Lynda Weinman and it will be the last. I have rarely seen a design/technical book that was so full of errors, innacuracies and downright misguided advice, especially coming from someone who has such a "good" reputation in the industry as Mrs. Weinman. Whoever technically edited this book should be fired immediately. Had I taken the time to go to a library to read a few passages of the book first, I never would have bought it in the first place. The first paragraph of the chapter on style sheets alone shows just how little Mrs Weinman understands the Web as a medium. This book is now two years old but is of lesser value to Web designers today than older ones like David Siegel's Creating Killer Web Sites and really pales when compared to inspiring works like Jeff Veen's "The Art And Science Of Web Design" or Zeldman's "Taking Your Talent To The Web" both of which are firmly grounded in Web reality and are forward thinking enough to retain their value for years to come. On the design side itself, Robin William's, Mark Oldach's and even the above mentionned Siegel's books are of far better quality even if its visual style looks dated compared to today's Web. In conclusion I would never recommend this book to anyone and would advise people to look elsewhere for practical advice or inspiration on Web imagery.
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Summary: Come on, Lynda. This book is full of sloppy mistakes.
Review: This book would deserve five stars if it weren't for MANY sloppy, but substantive, errors in both the text and in the graphics. Unlike typos, these errors affect the content. For example, several graphics are flipped, resulting in incorrect and confusing captions under graphics which are used as examples. If I weren't an experienced web designer, I might not have noticed. Beginners could have a difficult time replicating some of the techniques discussed. So, Lynda, you need to spend MORE time proofing a book that you're going to sell... I turn to Lynda's books again and again, so this carelessness is a big disappointment.
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Summary: Outstanding! Absolutely perfect!
Review: This is definitely one of the top 10 book available on programming. Plus, it's highly readable & highly informative. Kudos to Lynda on writing such an excellent tutorial & reference. I have Version 2 of this book, and that's what really got me going with web design.
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Summary: The title is misleading...
Review: this is more of a web design-in-general book, not just web graphics...nonetheless the information is helpful, especially for beginners. I also find myself referencing it quite often on the job, even though I read it cover-to-cover. I agree with other reviewers on the HTML code in this book, it leaves much to be desired. However, I find the Hexadecimal Conversion Chart and Browser Safe Color Chart to be handy when I need them, and don't feel like resourcing the web. All in all, it is a good desktop reference that I am sure I will use again and again.
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Summary: Beautiful Design, Horrendous Editing
Review: Weinmann is a reknowned expert in her field, but you wouldn't know it from this book. The text is replete with sloppy mistakes -- from annoying typos and miscaptioned images to plain, old wrong information, including even basic HTML syntax. The book reads like a term paper that was written in an "all nighter" without a second look. Did Weinmann not have an editor for this title? The problem with this book is that if you're a beginner, you're likely to be confused by the numerous errors. On the other hand, if you already know enough web design to spot the errors, then there's not much new to be learned from this volume --certainly not enough to justify its hefty price tag. In short, this is a nice book to lay out on your coffee table, but not one to rely on for solid design strategies.
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Summary: Just another web book
Review: When the first of Weinman's books came out, many designers were still new to the medium of the web (all of two or three years ago). Now, designers dedicated to the web are up to speed, and books like this have less and less to offer. More to the point, many of the best resources for learning about web graphics, or design, or technology, are on the web itself. And web-based resources are typically much more up-to-date. Furthermore, Weinman is not herself a particularly good designer or graphic artist. As one other reviewer has noted, like many web "experts", her chief skill is brazen self-promotion.
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