Web Site Graphics: Home Page & Splash Page: The Best Works on the Web [Paperback]

Richard Karl Danielson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2000 | Series: Web Site Graphics

The Web Site Graphics series presents some of the best Web site design work being created today. Selected by designers for designers, each book in the series focuses on an important facet of graphic design online: together the collection is a terrific, affordable resource of Web site design inspiration.

Web Site Graphics: Homepage and Splashpage presents over a hundred Web sites with homepages and splashpages that work. Each design is accompanied by in-depth text examining what works and why, describing colon graphics, typography, and tables, as well as technical and design issues relating specifically to the Web. As well as featuring real Web sites which will inspire both professional and amateur designers, this book provides tricks and techniques from professional Web designers for creating homepages that make a splash.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Focuses on an important and fresh area of interest for Web site designers and an important facet of graphic design on-line. Offers inspiration as well as informative text on the design process and tools used to achieve the final design.

About the Author

Richard Karl Danielson is a freelance writer and artist living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has produced live theater, cut a record of his own songs, and written for a variety of media—electronic and print. He studied history and writing at Marlboro College. He is a Web designer by avocation and is fascinated with the current internet revolution. He is currently producing a short movie for the Web and writing a book on cinematography.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564967239
• ISBN-13: 978-1564967237
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,289,104 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Imagery if you're looking for inspiration, January 17, 2001

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Tony Dunn "webdesignerinparadise" (Paradise, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Web Site Graphics: Home Page & Splash Page: The Best Works on the Web (Paperback)

In my web design work, I'm constantly looking for ideas. This entire series of books is filled with screen shots of hundreds of interesting web sites (including URLs so you can visit the sites displayed). Text is limited to brief captions on each site. If you are looking for a "how to" book, forget this. This book is for visual inspiration and stimulation only. But's that's a big 'only'. I own perhaps a dozen books of web imagery, but this series is easily the best for the price. If you need visual inspiration for web design, you can't go wrong.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The series is a ripoff, August 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Web Site Graphics: Home Page & Splash Page: The Best Works on the Web (Paperback)

I knew very well that when I bought this book it was only for inspiration. And that's all it is. But when I purchased the other book in the series "Navigation 2" site unseen, I got ... .... This book contains approximately 75% of the Splashpage book. Image for image. The people from Rockport should be ashamed for trying to pull such .... I won't even attempt to look at the rest of the series.

As far as the review. There is no "in-depth" text examining the pages. 1 paragraph of someones opinion of how it looks.

Also the publisher review states "Offers inspiration as well as informative text on the design process and tools used to achieve the final design."

Uh-no. There is no mention of design process or tools used.

This is just my opinion. I could be wrong.