Www Design: Web Pages from Around the World [Hardcover]

Daniel Donnelly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1997

The World Wide Web has never looked better. WWW Design: Web Pages from Around the World features the best that global designers have to offer.

Organized by country, these designs represent the highest achievement in contemporary Web page design. Pages filled with beautiful, unique and original Web designs--accompanied by descriptions of the elements, navigational structure, and the processes used to create each site--give readers ample ideas for designing their own sites.

This volume is sure to be a valuable resource for multimedia designers everywhere, with fully indexed listings for interactive designers and design firms, resources, glossary, and a companion CD-ROM.

The companion CD-ROM features direct to Web links to each of the Web sites featured in the book, programs used for the Web design, a step-by-step design guide, and a collection of time-saving tips and tricks.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Author/designer Daniel Donnelly is owner and creative director of Interactivist Designs, a multimedia design studio located in northern California. WWW Design: Web Pages from Around the World follows his first best selling design book, In Your Face: The Best of Interactive Interface Design.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Pub (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564963357
• ISBN-13: 978-1564963352
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,398,000 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Daniel Donnelly is the Chair of the Digital Art and Design program at Butte College located in northern California. He has designed and authored nine design books for Rockport Publishers, including "In Your Face: The Best of Interactive Interface Designs", and seven other books focused on typography, Flash animation, and interface design.

Donnelly's most recent design book-"999 Logo Design Elements"-features 999 royalty-free vector-based elements that can be used to create original logos.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Around the World Website-Seeing Tour!, August 31, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Www Design: Web Pages from Around the World (Hardcover)

     Would you like to have a look at how international Website designers tend to their craft? Look no further than this book! WWW Design: Web Pages from Around the World offers a global look at some fascinating Website designs from a number of international Website designers and design firms. Organized by country, readers are taken on a Website-seeing trip around the world. Readers will gain a greater appreciation for a broader range of Website design concepts, learn about other cultures, and respect the international composition of the Internet community!

     This hard back book measures 12 1/4" by 9 1/4" and contains many full-colored Website pages as they actually appear on browser screens. This book serves as an inspirational guide for layout and design. Descriptions of design elements, navigational structures, and design processes are provided for each site. Color imagery is among the best in the publishing trade, bringing out the full detail and impact of each site!

     The book includes a fully indexed listing of every international designer and design firm featured in the book, a design resource listing, and a glossary of terms. The CD that accompanies the book is also a piece of art. Included on the CD is an interactive version of the book, including all of the projects, design helps, and a collection of essential Website design software programs.

     With this book in hand readers can achieve comparable results. The advantages of using this book include valuable instruction and insight from top-notch Website designers from around the world. Their work and instruction will be at your fingertips. Let their experience be your teacher. Make an impact on the World Wide Web with this great design idea book today!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars There must be better books on web design..., September 27, 2000

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Jose Eduardo da Rocha Azevedo "Zé" (São Paulo, SP Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: WWW Design: Web Pages from Around the World (Paperback)

Appart being published this year, the book and its content is dated. There are sites up to four (!!!) years old... Sites look heavy and the included CD ROM is almost useless. I thought it contained the sites, but it's just a multimedia version of the book with anything fancy on the multimedia side. I was expecting a much better compilation, specially because of the publishing date. Well, at least it didn't cost me too much. But look for any other book before this. I'll pass it on as soon as I can. But it'll be hard to do so...

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Old, out of date and a waste of my time, October 4, 2000

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matthk (Sydney, NSW AUSTRALIA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: WWW Design: Web Pages from Around the World (Paperback)

This book is NOT new. It's a re-issue of a hardback book with a different cover (possibly so that idiots like me won't recognise it for the same sad book it was a few years ago!)

Many of the sites no longer exist. Most of the design 'concepts' are outdated. The CD-ROM has software from early 1997 which is USELESS.

I've been a web-designer dince 1994 , I saw this book (in it's previous cover) when it first came out. It was of little use and poorly researched and written THEN, it's even WORSE now.

The only people who would find this book interesting would be "web Design Historians" (if there IS such a creature) or the same ill-informed fools who thought "Creating Killer Websites" by David Seigel and "Websites that Work" by Roger Black were "good design books" and NOT two of the most conceited and pointless books on web design yet published.

My final recommendation! - DO NOT buy this book unless you're a "web design historian".