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Coloring Web Graphics

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The book is a good summary of color on the Web, but her book <deconstructing web graphics> gives you almost as much information on color, plus a whole range of other ideas about HTML and Web design in general. If you buy <deconstructing>, or David Siegel's excellent "Creating Killer Web Sites," you really do not need this one

This entire book would have been provided as a single chapter in any other book, but Weinman managed to inflate the "chapter" into an ENTIRE book...And if the flowing rhetoric and puffery don't get you, the sticker shock of having to pay a small fortune for this tiny tiny tiny book should

Weinman set herself up on a pedastal as a supposed genious of Web site design. Unfortunately and ironically, Weinman has about as much experience designing Web sites as my 8 year old, who dabbles in HTML!

What is even more amazing is that she admits her lack of experience in the introduction to her first book. Stating, she NEVER even created a Web site, YET there she is telling the world how to design web sites all the same! Weinman may have a background in graphic design, but graphic design and Web design are two different things.

To see just how much Weinman's Verve, Vivacity and Vision is crap, visit her web site. Not much originality and certainly NOT much in the way of a well designed Web site. I'd be embarrassed to publish her pages at my Web site.

The facts haven't changed, just the compromises. - This aged book stands as a current reference for understanding why the colors are displaying the way they do. The explanation of the options and compromising in choosing web colors has proved invaluable in decision making and client consultations. - It is one of the oldest and still most often referred-to book on my shelf.

If you like me find yourself designing and building web sites without any Graphic Design training then this book will become one of your biggest helps.

Whether she knows how to design a site or not, is, neither here nor there.

The huge strength of this book is the CD ROM of ready to load PhotoShop swatches. A complete Colour Scheme in CMYK & RGB. Worth the price of the book alone!

If you like me find yourself designing and building web sites without any Graphic Design training then this book will become one of your biggest helps.

Whether she knows how to design a site or not, is, neither here nor there.

The huge strength of this book is the CD ROM of ready to load PhotoShop swatches. A complete Colour Scheme in CMYK & RGB. Worth the price of the book alone!