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What our customer's say!

"could not put it down", I read this entire book in three days and learned so much about everything. There is not a lot of technical information in the book but design concepts and things that will just make you so much more prepared for designing websites. I have also read Robin Williams other books and I am totally in love with her writing style. Check them out if you haven't already.

"Excellent Book", I have only read about 6 chapters but there is so much basic information available about what is important when designing a web page. I am using this for a college course and this is preparing me to design a hypermedia project.

"An OK book ", This book is OK for someone who might be trying to teach another the principals of webpage design. I had to buy it for a graduate level textbook and didn't see much use for it. It might be better used in the K-12 area, not college level.

"Web book", I was required to buy this book for a grad course. It is to the point and easy to understand.

"Out of date", This book is seriously out of date for modern web design and development.

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"Excellent book for general audiences", Some people (like me) feel like they are being reluctantly pulled into the twenty-first century. Keeping up with the technology that kids are being introduced to in elementary school is a challenge. This book teaches both technical web site building and excellent design skills in a humorous and delightful way. The authors might be designers/technical writers, but they have poetic souls. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and learned alot from it.

"Very Good for Some Folks", Nowadays, everyone seems to have a website, from the largest Fortune 500 companies to the person next door. Some internet service providers even offer on-line software for their customers to create sites. Unfortunately many of these sites are awful. Navigation is often difficult and the graphic design is frequently an obstacle to visitors.

Readers should note that this is a new 2005 edition of an old favorite, and reviews of the second edition may not be applicable.

This book is aimed at helping people not trained in graphic design to put together better web sites. After a curious discussion of search engines, the authors explain what a web page is, how browsers work, and what servers do. The initial chapters are clearly aimed at people who know little about how the Internet works. Subsequent chapters become more technical, and even experienced site makers may find something they either didn't know or ignored. The book shows how the four design principles that Williams has emphasized in her other works (alignment, proximity, repetition and contrast) apply to the design of web sites. A chapter is specifically addressed to designing the navigation for a site. The book then discusses the use of color and typography and finishes up with some advanced design tips and information on getting your site on line and getting people to visit it.

The book operates in a curious area between no knowledge and deep technical knowledge. For example, the authors indicate that the preparation of web sites requires both image-editing and web-authoring software, and that the book is not aimed at teaching the reader how to use such software. Yet very frequently, as they explain design principles, they tell how to use software to achieve the design principles. As a result, even though the book seems aimed at beginners, it will help readers if they have some familiarity with software like Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

This book is deceptively easy and quick to read. And yet there is plenty of information between the covers. Although I consider myself to be fairly competent in creating a website, I picked up a lot of tips that can improve the sites I've created. In fact, I had a long hiatus in the middle of my reading to return to my site to make some improvements based on the authors' recommendations.

There are also a lot of little hints that can prove helpful. For example, I never considered that the apostrophe in my websites was actually just a little line, and that I could put in a real apostrophe by typing in some simple code. Although I've read a lot of web-authoring books, I had never come across this little gem. Now that may not seem very important but when one adds up all the design tips in this book, one has an agenda for good site design.

I do have one complaint. Some of the illustrations are too small to read, especially if one's eyesight is less than perfect. I actually had to use a magnifying glass as I examining some of the illustrations. This certainly sets a poor example for a book dedicated to good design.

This book will prove useful to both beginner and intermediate creators of web sites. And even the most experienced web designers may find something that will make reading this book worthwhile.

"A wider appeal than the title might indicate...", I've heard that the books authored by Robin Williams (*not* the actor) on design are pretty good. I got my first taste of that style today when I finished The Non-Designer's Web Book (3rd Edition) by Robin Williams and John Tollett. I can see why they are so popular, and why she's considered a first-rate teacher...

Contents:
Part 1 - Using the World Wide Web: What is the Web?; How to Search the Internet
Part 2 - Making Web Pages: What are Web Pages Anyway?; Things to Know Before You Begin Your Site
Part 3 - Design Issues on the Web: Print vs. Web and How it Affects Design; Basic Design Principles for Non-Designers; Designing the Interface & Navigation; How to Recognize Good & Bad Design
Part 4 - Color, Graphics, and Type: Color on the Web; Graphic Definitions You Must Know; How to Prepare Image Files for the Web; Typography on the Web; Advanced Tips & Tricks
Part 5 - You're Done - Now What?: Test & Fix Your Web Site; How to Upload & Update Your Site; How & Why to Register Your Site
The Stuff at the End: Quiz Answers; Index; Colophon

It's probably best to first figure out the target audience for this book. It's not a book full of HTML syntax and how to code JavaScript routines. If you're looking for that, move on quickly. The main focus is learning how to build aesthetically pleasing pages by using solid design techniques, even if you're not a graphic artist. The assumption is that you're using WYSIWYG-type web page development tools that shield you from hard-core HTML coding. That assumption frees up the reader to concentrate on images, layout, color, font, and all the various things that can make a page look professional or amateurish. The writing is extremely conversational (more so than I've seen in nearly any other book) and maintains a humorous tone throughout. Basically, it's fun to read and the information gets absorbed without much effort.

While it might be tempting to say only beginners should read this book, that might be an undersell. When the authors get into the technical aspects of graphics, even the regular web developer (who is more focused on code than graphical design) would pick up more than a couple things. Again, web developers who focus more on code don't tend to have a good eye for graphical layout. I know I fall squarely in that category. Even the basic tips presented here should help me make some improvements on a number of sites I'm working on. And I'm sure this is much to the delight of my user base...

So... provided you're not picking it up to learn HTML, you should get *something* out of the book. And if you're not a graphical artist by trade, it's a *sure* bet you'll walk away better equipped to catch attention on the web...

"Good Starting Book, Especially from a Design Aspect", This is the new third edition of this book, and I was surprised with how up to date it is. For instance there's a comment about Macromedia Dreamweaver saying that Macromedia was purchased by Adobe, so Dreamweaver information may move to Adobe. (It hasn't happened yet, October 05.)

In many ways this book is like most beginning web design books. That is, it's about the web and how to do a page and authoring software and all that sort of stuff. These areas are very well done, and as a professional designer the pages really look good as well as conveying information.

The real strength of this book is in it's comments on design. Here are some web sites that show really bad design. Bad layout, bad color, bad nearly everything. These then lead to some pages that show good design. Even a few of getting rid of bad design elements and then going to good elements make pages much, much better.

I have just three minor complaints.

Web Authoring -- she likes the simple packages where you don't do any code. Everyone I know sooner or later begins to do HTML.

She is a strong recommender of Adobe Photoshop, including the comment that if you don't know it now you will in the future. Maybe, but there are competitors.

She uses a lot of full page graphics. If all of your visitors have broadband, this isn't a problem. But note the big sites like Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Adobe, spot graphics only. Full page graphics may have a nice appearance, but only if you have broadband. Over a slow link your visitor may get tired of waiting before he gets to see your pretty graphics.

"Great for the early beginner", I used this book for a class, but it's good for a beginner. This book goes into what the internet is as though we don't know. If you are deciding to design web pages and you need a lesson on what the internet is and does, then you have a lot more work to do then this book will tell you. But you can skip those chapters and get to the stuff for general beginners and then it gets good from there. It will talk about design, definitions that are important to know for beginners, how to get photos and video up on your site, and registering your site.
So should you buy or not? Early beginners - YES Beginners - YES Intermediate and advance - NO