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Summary: Subject matter largely out of date
Review: I found this book interesting and well-written, but it must be noted that this is NOT a how-to or step-by-step guide with example source code, etc. It is for the competent, experienced web designer looking for ideas or a "case study" which makes for excellent reading.
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Summary: Hot Weird Style
Review: I'm giving it 3 stars because the book had a cool design and for the work he put into it. I'm a writer and designer and thought I would post my thoughts.It makes me feel they should take books down that are outdated. This Book was published in 1997, that seems like Ancient times for the web. I bought the book with out knowing this. Try and keep this in mind. The book contains some case studies, this makes writing the easiest. Some examples of poorly designed sites. Lots of chatty text and stories. Basically, Jeffrey takes a screen shot of a website and then writes 6 paragraphs of text. He did have some good pointers, but if you are a designer, this book will seem basic and you should know everything by now. For instance-- "Make sure to compress your images"-- Thanks Jeffrey! "This is how much our Hotwired site has changed in the last year" --Great!. "Colors look good on a web page, they make it look beautiful!"-- Good Tip! This could probably be one of those thumb thru books for you. It's really a strange book, a basic tip book that's hard to understand for Professionals. Remember 1997 guys?
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Summary: Subject matter largely out of date
Review: In addition to containing quite a bit of self-congratulatory back-patting, now, in early 2000, I felt a good bit of the subject matter was out of date. In addition, all of the topics covered are available on Hotwired's Webmonkey site and are covered more comprehensively there. Don't buy this book! Instead, surf the Webmonkey tutorials.
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Summary: A Classic, Must-have Web Book
Review: This book is about the what and why of Web design, not the how. So don't expect to become a Photoshop expert, or to learn JavaScript (although they are tools that are mentioned). This book tells you why good sites work and bad ones don't and shows how lessons were learned the hard way - HotWired has constantly changed its site as has veered from flaunting its design to providing information - all within constantly changing limitations of the Web. (An interesting observation is that as the Web got more popular, average bandwidth of users declined greatly as more 14.4 modems came online). Don't let the size of this book fool you - there's more good information packed in these 163 pages than in most of those bloated 400 pages Web books that fill up amazon.com's warehouses. Everything in here you can use.
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