Secrets of Successful Web Sites
Author: David Siegal
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ISBN: 1568303823
Publisher: Hayden (31 July, 1997)
Sales Rank: 1,522
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
The most useful book I've read on Web site development yet!
What a great book! The first day I had it I had to come up with a process for approaching the revamp of a Web site -- how we were going to manage the project. I couldn't believe it was all there! Part 2 is a clear, easy to understand, detailed look at how to approach the project. While David Siegel's book "Creating Killer Web Sites" was interesting, it still seemed a bit ephemeral. Not this book!
Part 1 is great to read as you get time -- each case study has great lessons and they are not only informative but written in a very entertaining style.
Required reading for anyone involved in Web site development!
Rating: 5 out of 5
A Web Bible for ALL Webmasters of ALL LEVELS!!!
This "web-bible" as I like to call it, helps one to truly analyze others sites inside and out. By doing that you learn to train your "eye" and work toward building a better web site for yourself, how to spot good one's if you are just browsing, and so on. I have recommended this book to countless people. Some were skeptics, but highly skilled web professionals - then later thanked me for the eye opening experience (which led them to alter their site!). I have recommended this to beginner's, and you would never know this by viewing their creations. GET THIS BOOK. LEARN IT. READ IT 10 TIMES. It's beautifully presented, and the seemlessly outlined lessons cover MANY aspects that EVERY WEBMASTER NEEDS TO KNOW!!! Very well written, you are NEVER lost...I even found myself laughing outloud at times!!-->Just get it!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Pretentious waste of time
... This book is aimed at graphic designers, marketing agencies and the like who put together nice marketing oriented sites, whose sole job is marketing the company. For people such as myself who implement lage scale ebusiness websites, intranets, corporate portals etc there is nothing. The concept of dynakic database driven sites isn't even mentioned. These projects are a cross between an IT project (with all the traditional skills and techniques that implies) and a maketing project (such as a TV campaign). There are multiple wildly different and largely incompatibel skillsets at work and these have to be welded together to promoite efficiency, while not destroying the motivation and qualities of the diverse people involved.
Traditional IT managemnt skills have to blend with the world of the graphic designer and the business analyst. This book doesn't even start to cover that. An utter waste of time.
Added to this I personally find david siegel's designs immensely overrated.
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