recommendations needed for a good web design book

[Bill Crosbie]

At 05:03 PM 12/16/96 -0800, you wrote:
>	Hi.  If you are already familiar with basic HTML and want to
>get into more of the graphic design aspects, these books will
>reveal a lot of shortcuts and secrets of really "good-looking" easy to
>navigate sites:
>
>Creating Killer Websites   by David Siegel
>

I can not recommend this book.  I purchased it from Amazon, read through it,
and had to sent it back.  Siegal's notion of 3rg gen. web sites is way off
base, and comes from looking at web design strictly from a 'design'
perspective.  

Now looking at design from the perspective of one's discipline is not a bad
thing, but to claim that your discipline has everything that must be said
about the topic is, I think, supremely arrogant.

A careful analysis of his 3rd gen principles show that they are really just
a reworking of 2nd gen into a star topology with an 'entrance and exit
tunnel...'   This is not interactivity.  

Truly interactive sites are assembled on the fly through the use of
assembling bits and pieces from a backend database.  These sites can still
benefit from good design, but design should not lose half (or more) of your
audience.  I would pass on this book... actually, I already have.  ;-)


>Designing Web Graphics...How to Prepare Images and Media for the Web
>                           by Lynda Weinman
>
>Deconstructing Web Graphics...Web Design Case Studies and Tutorials
>                           also by Lynda Weinman
>

Lynda's books are awesome.  'Nuff said.  ;-)
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