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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hot Weird Style, April 1, 2000
This review is from: Hotwired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites (Paperback)
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 It makes me feel they should take books down that are outdated.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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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Subject matter largely out of date, January 18, 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: Hotwired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites (Paperback)
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quite a bit of self-congratulatory back-patting, now, in early 2000, I felt a good bit of the subject matter was out of date.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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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
This book is a joke., January 21, 1998
This review is from: Hotwired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites (Paperback)
This was the first book I ever purchased over the Internet, and I was impressed by how easy and quick the process was. However, this book is also a great example of how this distribution channel can be abused to sell inferior products. Had I come across this book in a real bookstore setting I could have thumbed through it's pages before taking it up to the counter and purchasing it, thus realizing beforehand what a complete joke it is. If you were to strip the filler out and reduce the type to a normal size and ledding, you would be left with barely enough helpful content to fill a pamphlet. A quote from Amazon's own review: "Unlike some Web design books, which emphasize style, this one has plenty of useable examples..." This is B.S. A typical "How To" example from this book gives you instructions and HTML code for adding Wired's HotBot search engine to your web pages. I received it in the mail yesterday. I put it back in the mail today, addressed to Amazon's return dept. Jay Luker Andover.Net
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