Designing Web Graphics.3 (3rd Edition)
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Author: Lynda Weinman
List Price: $55.00
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ISBN: 1562059491
Publisher: New Riders (17 March, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 5,424
Average Customer Rating: 3.42 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
April 1999?
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 out of 5
Send Lynda back to school
"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 coming soon...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Great Tutorials, but you can find them all online
This a great book, if you do not have time to read online tutorials. However, most of the information can be found on the web.
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