The Principles of Beautiful Web Design | 
 enlarge | Author: Jason Beaird
Publisher: SITEPOINT
Category: Book
List Price: £27.99
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 5309
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0975841963
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76
EAN: 9780975841969
ASIN: 0975841963
Publication Date: February 9, 2007
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 It might inspire you, but it might just bore you August 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very lightweight book on designing for the web. It is easy to be bamboozled by the pretty pictures and great looking websites that are featured in the book, but the material is not very authorative and gives the impression that the author hasn't been long out of college: and the lack of experience really shows.
You will eventually realise that the reason all the example sites look good is because they are simple sites packed with graphic design (legitimate sites, but hardly typical). The book lacks examples of corporate brochure sites, online shops etc. the kind of practical sites that web designers need to build on an everyday basis. They do work up an example of a tile seller brochure site, but it it a very weak example.
Unforgiveably the author mentions search engine optimisation once (I think) throughout the book - no mention whatsoever of designing for optimisation (albeit a different topic, but this OUGHT to be referenced by the book as it is very relevant to structuring).
If you are inspired by pictures of pretty websites then this might well inspire you, however, it you want to get a handle on the process of how to design a great looking, functional website for 95% of the types of websites that exist on the web then you might not find it useful at all.
 Yaaaaawn May 22, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I hate to say it but this book is boring and utterly basic at best. If you really are a beginner then you 'may' get something out of this book otherwise find something else or just look around on the web at different sites and find inspiration there.
Worst web design book I've ever seen May 8, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
The only beautiful thing about this book is the front cover.
It's slim (168 pages) and grossly overpriced.
The writing is chaotic and disorganized.
"It shouldn't matter whether the site is going to comprise straight HTML..." Er, yes, it should. The site should use XHTML.
"Anyone can come up with a design that works well." No, they can't.
He has no sense of the beautiful: he lauds garish websites.
After half a dozen pages, he makes a sudden random leap into a discussion of code: , , without even telling the uninitiated that these are (X)HTML tags.
I've never wasted so much money on a book! The only value I have is in warning off other readers! Spend your money somewhere else!
I'd like to give it zero stars.
 Neat but lightweight February 24, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I was a bit disappointed. I'm not a beginner nor an expert. Some technical books give you something that you get energised about, and want to go try straight away; unfortunately I didn't get anything useful from this book, and only slight inspiration.
On the plus side, it is well written and laid out, has a nice informal air.
For example, this is not for you if you already know about the differences between GIF, JPG and PNG; or if you know a bit about colour wheels and complementary colours; or if you are familiar with web-safe fonts.
Fine for beginners and a little bit after that. Not really for semi-pros onwards.
 Great for new people looking into design February 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is great for programmers or developers who've never been officially trained in graphic or UI design. Even if you've just started learning html and CSS or perhaps a bit of photoshop, this book will give you some solid knowledge with which to work your new ideas around.
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