Dynamic Concept & Design: With CDROM

by Crystal Waters

Learn Web page layout and design techniques from the design authority, Crystal Waters. She will lead readers through the craft that separates bland and simple sites from those that get results.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562056484
• ISBN13: 9781562056483
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: New Riders Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

For me this book is an excellent introduction to Web Design

After reading Jakob Nielson book I literally searched for all his recommendations of must reads. Dynamic Concept & Design is one of them. After reading the first page I knew this was a prized possesion. I work within Information Systems and this is my next step in my evolution of this career. After atttending school what seems like my whole life I personally welcome the traditional, non-traditional approach to learning about Web concepts and design. If anyone can find a copy of this book I recommend it as a permanant reference and introduction source. Wondering if she is going to publish another edition of this book.

Web design not page design

You will see in one of the reviews that someone says that "Siegel's book is better". I strongly disagree. Siegel wrote a book called "Creating Killer Web Sites", which was concerned principally with the details of creating great web pages. WC & D contains very little of the technical details of how to create web pages (you can pick those details straight off the web and they will be more up to date than any book) but instead the author teaches how to create a web site that does something. She tells you how to focus on your audience and concentrate on serving them, rather than focussing on your own creative needs and serving yourself. I read the book and found that my site hits went from a couple of hundred to 12,000 a day. IMHO this book is a classic of web design, and unlike the many huge books on HTML tag usage, it will not go out of date.

Dynamic Concept & Design: With CDROM

Wow! How refreshing! But, more than refreshing, it was very informative. I am a newbie to the web design world. Crystal goes straight to the point on what needs to be done, what matters. I read and used her latest book Universal Web Design w/ CD also. It was equally as good. She has a real talent to take complicated information and present in a way that takes the fear out of creating!Thank you, Crystal!

Simply the best introduction to web design you can find.

A great introduction to the entire act of creating a web site. Deals as much with the process of design as with specific code techniques. Waters does a great job introducing traditional design theory and adapting it to the web. Her treatment of the ideation phase is the best I have seen. This book is a "must read" for any new web designer and a good brainstorming tool for more experienced designers.

A comprehensible and useful book on Web design

If your'e going to buy one book only on web design I'd recommend this. It's an excellent reference book for designers. I'll also recommend it to communicate important ideas about web publishing to other parts of a business organisation.