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Title: Designing Web Graphics.3 (3rd Edition) by Lynda Weinman ISBN: 1-56205-949-1 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 22 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.42 (36 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Worthwhile, Inspirational Book for Designers
Comment: As a designer experienced with print media, I found this book useful in getting me up-to-speed with the basic technology and techniques of Web design. While lacking technical depth, this book inspired me to look beyond the technicalities of HTML and think about the Web as an untapped visual medium. Sure, I noticed a few typos here and there, but generally I think it's a great book for beginners such as me. After buying a few Web design books, I've realized that the best books are those that integrate learning HTML with visual examples. Some books have this backwards; they're full of HTML code, but lack any useful or inspirational visuals. By contrast, this book has given me some creative vision, while providing the necessary code to experiment on my own.
Rating: 3
Summary: April 1999?
Comment: I would buy this but geepers, it's getting pretty old. The date refers to when it was released, not when it was written, so keep in mind it probably took 6 months to write. I wish they would withdraw some of these books once they got to a certain age and/or make it a bit clearer if and when they have been updated, because a lotta lotta stuff has happened in the last three years. That's an eternity in internet terms. I have to worry that a lot of the stuff in this book is no longer up to date (like web safe colors, fast becoming last year's problem)
Does this book even mention microsoft.net? Today they released flash mx, and so on and so on. If you write a book for the net, why not update it each year? I'm fed up with being stuck with books that have old information in them, going to the trouble of memorising and becoming aquainted with stuff, and then finding there are better+newer+different ways of doing it. It's not like these books are cheap either.
I want my books up to date, and I'm willing to pay more for something that is going to at least last me a little while. April 1999, that's just too long ago.
Rating: 1
Summary: Send Lynda back to school
Comment: "designing web graphics 3"
by lynda weinman -
I've decided I really don't like Lynda Weinman's books, CD's, taste in art or anything else.
Although she was the first to capitalize on her ability to make gifs and jpegs, she hasn't really learned anything new since then. Yet she continues to produce volumes of sophmoric material.
Case in point:
Chapter 3:
page 39
Metaphors: Help or Hindrance?
I immediately thought of the indispensable book "Killer Web Sites" in which the metaphor is conceived as the next level of thinking, an inspiration to reach for higher ground. But Lynda is a low brow - she admits it, constantly, but then she forgets her humble roots and tries ineptly to describe metaphor as we understand it.
"Sometimes metaphors can help your site design, but sometimes metaphors can hurt. At Cigar Aficionado the use of metaphor works. Cigar boxes and wrappers are beautifully designed, so the use of them on the Web site provides an appropriate visual reinforcement."
Weinman obviously thinks that images are in and of themselves metaphors, which is an interesting and imminently arguable case. I think however, that every image has the potential to be metaphoric, if it evokes another contextual sense.
The accepted definition of metaphor according to Webster is:
Metaphor:
Word or picture or phrase denoting one kind of idea or object is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them.
Transferring the sense of one word to the sense of another.
Using a cigar label on a cigar site is as direct as you can get. It in no way uses metaphor anymore than does using a picture of a potato to sell a potato.
Image as metaphor.
The idea:
Juxtaposition Gallery
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Title: Deconstructing Web Graphics by Lynda Weinman, Jon Warren Lentz ISBN: 1562058592 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Creating Killer Web Sites (2nd Edition) by David Siegal ISBN: 1568304331 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 18 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: creative html design.2 (2nd Edition) by Lynda Weinman, William Weinman ISBN: 0735709726 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 17 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Secrets of Successful Web Sites by David Siegal ISBN: 1568303823 Publisher: Hayden Pub. Date: 31 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Creative HTML Design by Lynda Weinman, William Weinman ISBN: 1562057049 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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