The Principles of Beautiful Web Design | Jason Beaird

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design | Jason Beaird | Very useful book

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	The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Jason Beaird SitePoint, 2007 - 180 pages average customer review:based on 59 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Perfect Introduction

While several of the reviewers for this title were critical because they felt it was below their skill level or, in other cases, felt that the use of PhotoShop examples were not appropriate for the book's audience, I found this title to be a perfect introduction. I'm a PHP / MySQL hobbyist and found that while my various little applications worked, the finished product just didn't look good. This book provided an excellent foundation to help me remedy that problem.

The book discusses 'Layout and Composition', 'Color', 'Texture', 'Typography', and Imagery'. I enjoyed that it was written in an appropriately relaxed tone with touches of humor here and there. And while I didn't have PhotoShop when I read the book, I found the PhotoShop -specific examples very interesting. In fact, I was inspired to go out and buy a discounted copy of PhotoShop to give some of these techniques a try for myself!

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Very useful book

This is one of the best web design books I've ever read. It's well written and gives you a lot of practical advices that go beyond just web design and cover topics such as meeting with clients, gathering information and essentially being a freelance web designer.

Excellent introduction to Web Design

This book is an exceptional introduction to the artistic how-to of web design. There are a lot of technical books out there but this one focuses on how to mske a website look visually pleasing and maintain a consistant look at the same time. It uses good color and design in the presentation of the book also. The information I gleaned from this book has helped me improve the look of my websites and has changed how I approach web design.

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Suggested for a programmer...

As a graphic designer with years of design training I have to say that I didn't receive too much new information on this book, however for a programmer this book is a gem. This book will go to the programming dept where it will be used very frequently. If you have years of design training than this book is probably not where you want to start.

If you have not been to sitepoint yet go to their website and look through a plethora of web design inspiration and see the books available for what fits you better. Then come back to amazon and purchase the book here. (You'll save a bundle). Hope this helps.

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Ho hum book

I knew nothing about Web design before the book, after the book, I know about the color wheel. Most of the other things that he glossed over I found to be like a collection of amateur blogs strung together in a book. To me, it felt like he was afraid to teach us anything useful, as it would correlate to more competition for him.

Perhaps I expected too much of the book, but it seemed to be verbose for the sake of it. Also, I was hoping there would be some tie in to the actual programming of the site. To me, it seemed like he just gave a very brief description of how to make photo's look better by using Photoshop.

I am willing to admit, perhaps though, I think "Web Design" should encompass some functionality to it as well, as opposed to just pretty pictures. I may very well be completely ignorant to it, but it wasn't the book that I was looking for. I would give it 1 star, but I felt there is a good chance that I'm the one who made a mistake and bought the wrong type of book for what I was looking for. So I gave it 3.

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