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Adobe(R) Seminars: Web Page Design

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I do admit that this book is probably not for the beginners, but people who are designing corporate websites usually are not. This book will NOT teach you how to create "cool effects" on your web pages, but rather teach you the concepts of web strategy and design. I doesn't teach you how the graphics are created using Illustrator and PhotoShop, but rather how and when to implement them. It's my philosophy that a design book should stick to the concepts of design rather than specific effects. In that aspect, this book does well.

as someone who is overly familiar with photoshop and fairly new to online design i learned some of the basics of web design techniques from this book - it was a very easy read but there couldve been a little more detail on some of the techniques used - considering this is a book with the name adobe on the cover i expected more - if you have never used photoshop or any adobe products i would shy away from this book - i bought this book in the store for the full price of 40- and i dont think it was worth it - i would loan it to a friend if they were looking for a specific technique and were familiar with the program already but i would not tell them to buy it

Why is it too little too much? First of all for a beginner, you should forget it and DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. This book will treat you as an intermidiate advance user of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. So you will not learn step-by-step short cut. This book is good for giving a general idea on web design using Adobe products. Thus if your Adobe software can't do a certain thing like creating HTML table, the author will teach you in using Notepad Editor instead of Adobe Pagemill. What I like about this book is, its design will help advance users of Adobe Photoshop to make it as a reference in designing a web page. For the advance user who never learn about web limitation also will learn a great deal of knowledge from this book. What I would suggest to the author for the second edition of this book is to add an "INDEX" and also incorporating more sharewares like Microsoft Gif Animators, LviewPro (for capturing the screen), and others.

Although this book is beautifully illustrated and gives somewhat good examples and tutorials, I would not recommend it for beginners.Experience with Illustrator 7.0 and Photoshop 4.0 is (to be realistic) REQUIREDIt barely touches on important subjects and leaves you with a feeling of that for the money you paid for this book, you must have accidentally skipped a page or two.Better off buying Adobe Web Publishing and Design Unleashed.

I've bought many web design books with one goal in mind: to master the art and science of web design. This book was a big disappointment on the technical side (not to mention trite design). I highly recommend Lynda Weinmann's books; "Deconstructing the Web" for a start.

I read this book to and from work in the subway and to to be honest, knowing the basics of photoshop and illustrator is a must BEFORE you buy this book. If you think that you'll be up and running with the best web page in the world after reading this book, think again. If you have experience with ps and ai, then by all means get this book (and hope go got what you paid for).

Primarily a photoshop primer, this book contains a disgraceful number of typographical errors. Sloppily produced and rushed to print, it makes one wonder if the instructions are equally error-ridden.

I would agree with some of the other reviews here. This is not a beginners book. It assumes at least an intermediate level of understanding of Photshop, Illustrator, Pagemill, to execute some of the excercises.

To the books credit however, it is very nicely laid out -easy to read -in fact images guide you more than the text.

i don't know how to design my home page, i'm a beginer. So that, i want the easiest way to design my home page with which software i have to work.

Though this book TENDS to teach you how to achieve special effects and stuff you could do with Adobe softwares, it skips certain sections that actually help you achieve that. This book would probably tells you what are your possibilities, but you'll have to work on your part to actually get the look you want. Also, you'll have to be familiar with Photoshop and Illustrator. The CD-ROM that comes with the book is really a piece of crab, it doesn't contain what it says it does.