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www.type: Effective Typographic Design for the World Wide Web

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www.type has a nice cover... we all know the rest. it has a few good examples of websites, a whole lot of what not to do and not much else. i really think that richard pring was more interested in slandering bad sites than collecting good ones. the book also contains quite a few badly executed 'eyecandy style' images 'designed' to demonstrate best practice. all in all it's a badly designed design book... a true 'design book for the blind'.

I've really enjoyed this colourful book. I have brought it to meetings to show clients different 'styles' before producing the graphics of a home page. So I particular liked the 100 page 'show case' showing many good examples of well-balanced home page layouts. The 'sites best unseen' could have been left out.

If you are a beginer, take it. If you are a professional, forget it.

Totally cool reference tool that will help you showcase your company, your personal site and your club or group's essence on a website and accompanying collateral literature or off-line materials. Covers topics including how color impacts reading, and perception to 3D and filmic experiences, how to "Hollywoodize" your service or at least know what the studios do to get more eyeballs to their movie sites to how to create logotypes and layouts that help you search and find what you want on the web-- and of course your site too.

I found this lively book quite insightful and useful in my work. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in taking on the challenges of website typography. Looking forward to future publications!

Simple to read and understand.I found that the book had too much on bad sites, 30%. I know what a bad site is, show more good ones. Nevertheless the section on good sites where extremely useful. An inspirational & practical book. Better than the "WOW" book. Buy it.

The only reason I give this book 1 star is because zero was not an option in the popdown menu.

Roger Pring certainly does practice the easy way out theory. Every site contains flaws that even novices can discover, that doesn't make you an expert. By pinpointing flaws in other sites, versus showing valid good design, the books leads beginners astray. Nitpicking another site is not how to design a good interesting web site. First rule of thumb for Mr. Pring would be to get the permission of site owners prior to publishing his material. THAT is the first good rule of any publishing course! He should go back and relearn it. Being the owner of one of the slandered sites, I can attest he doesn't practice the laws of ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.