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The Art & Science of Web Design will help you understand the Web from the inside. It is structured around core Web concepts that often get only a passing mention in books on Web design. This book is not a reference book or a style guide. It is your mentor, whispering in your ear all the answers to those ubiquitous questions, and reminding us that there are now new rules and new ways to break them.Amazon.com Review
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The Art and Science of Web Design
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#1 by Michael Choate on May 17, 2010 - 6:59 pm
Let’s face it, if you have any sense for web design you don’t need this book (especially for. The same blah, blah, blah about consistency and page download speed. It’s common-sense, people!
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on May 17, 2010 - 8:33 pm
I’m not sure who this book is intended for. For readers new to web design, it doesn’t seem to be the most useful resource. And for web designers with any experience the author seems to go into excruciating detail explaining the obvious.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by David G. Hendry on May 17, 2010 - 9:50 pm
The idea of separating the logical specification for a thing from its physical realization is probably very old — take, for example, dance notation of the 1600s. In the Art & Science of Web Design, Jeffery Veen examines the importance of this separation in today’s electronic expression. This theme is explored from a variety of perspectives. We learn about the tight coupling between content and presentation but the reason for separation, the need for disciplines with markedly different sensibilities to collaborate, the process of pattern extraction and generalization, the tricks for conditional page rendering, and much more. This book goes a long way towards describing the real messiness inherent in creative expression on the Web. But, most importantly, Veen shows how to thrive in it.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Peter on May 18, 2010 - 12:35 am
Two stars for what its worth. I’m dissatisfied with the way this book is written. Its not straight to the point and lacks substance. Although some chapters proved to be informative like (i.e. chapter one: foundations) they could still be found from other resources like the internet (and its free!!). (translation: i regret having spent my money on this book). The book was a dissapointment i thought id be reading the thoughts of a real seasoned expert, i was wrong. Now Veen will be in my “ignore the books of this writer” list.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by A guy on May 18, 2010 - 2:59 am
This book may have been average fare in 1995 but hello, it’s 2001.
In the 7-8 years that the World Wide Web has been an information destination, the world has seen just over a jillion books about web design. The vast majority of them are better written, better researched and free of sloppy grammatical and spelling errors, unlike this me-too release. At best, it’s an introductory book for the Rip Van Winkle who has just discovered the Internet.
If you want science, do yourself a favor and stick with titles from Jakob Nielsen.
(Is it just me or is this book’s cover remarkably similar to “Permission Marketing” by Seth Godin?)
Rating: 1 / 5