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A Practical Guide for Designing for the Web
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This book purports to teach basic graphic design foundations, but it includes lots of commentary aimed at graphic design students (including advice on starting one's own freelance design business), readers who would already have plenty of instruction in typography, layout, color, et cetera. For them, a book teaching those foundations is redundant.
Meanwhile, non-graphic-designer readers can't make sense of Boulton's information, because it's all so cursory, vague, and/or unclearly written that it ...more
Meanwhile, non-graphic-designer readers can't make sense of Boulton's information, because it's all so cursory, vague, and/or unclearly written that it ...more
I really liked this book!
It went further into Typography, Grid Systems, and Color than some other Web Design books have.
There was one section on tools which I think should have been left out. The tools they mentioned were already outdated and the book is 3 years old. The author mentions at the end that the book was not meant to be a snapshot of the web design industry right now. When including these tools it felt like that is what he was doing.
Overall an awesome book! Definitely got me more int ...more
It went further into Typography, Grid Systems, and Color than some other Web Design books have.
There was one section on tools which I think should have been left out. The tools they mentioned were already outdated and the book is 3 years old. The author mentions at the end that the book was not meant to be a snapshot of the web design industry right now. When including these tools it felt like that is what he was doing.
Overall an awesome book! Definitely got me more int ...more
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