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Title: Portfolios Online: Digital and Graphic Designers Websites by Kathleen Ziegler, Nick Greco ISBN: 0-06-620934-X Publisher: Hearst Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Expected a "Reference Guide", Got a Picture-Book.
Comment: I don't know where to begin except to ask what the jacket description has to do with the book?
I was excited about reading this "must-have reference guide" that "focuses on the essential elements that create a successful online portfolio." I expected to see samples of some of the best award-wining online portfolios along with discussions of the salient features that make them so successful and the means by which they were achieved.
I hoped for some descriptions or tips on how winning portfolio designers select and organize content, what types of interfaces and technologies they choose to present their work, how they translate that into success in their fields of work,...
What I got was a (bad) coffee-table book full of screen-shots of web portfolios with little snippets of hyperbole in accompanying blurb-boxes on every other page for the first 2/3 of the book. I never saw such a content-free "reference guide" in my life. Between pages 112 and 154 there is NO TEXT other than 2-word captions to thumbnail-sized website screenshots which are, frankly, a waste of the high-quality glossy stock on which they are printed. They are too small to make out any of the supposed "ooh and ahh" details. Worst of all, what little text there was to read was poorly written - rife with grammatical errors.
This book was an incredible disappointment, very ill-conceived, and falsely advertised. Would someone like to buy my copy?
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific Visual Guide
Comment: Full of ideas and colorful layouts that help you navigate visually through the maze of creating a website. Great reference tool for showing how designers present their work.
Rating: 1
Summary: Bad purchase
Comment: This book has no content. You can barely read a bit about the websites featured there, and most of them are outdated. Although the book is published in 2001, websites there seem to be old.
I didn't agree with the choices of the websites this book features either. It seems like it has been put together by someone who really doesn't spend that much time on the Internet.
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Title: Experience Design 1 by Nathan Shedroff ISBN: 0735710783 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 18 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days (2nd Edition) by Chris Payne ISBN: 0672324458 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 12 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Internetworking Multimedia by Jon Crowcroft, Mark Handley, Ian Wakeman ISBN: 1558605843 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 15 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $62.95 |
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Title: designing web graphics.4, Fourth Edition by Lynda Weinman ISBN: 0735710791 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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