Cutting Edge Web Design: The Next Generation
Product Description
Here is the next generation of World Wide Web design, an international cross-section of Web pages that feature extraordinary graphics, innovative navigational schemes, and content geared perfectly to each site’s audience. Divided into four sections – design firm sites, commercial sites, self-promotion sites, and international highlights – the full-colour book features well-chosen screen shots that show design highlights at a glance. The companion CD-ROM offers an overview of each featured site and its design, as well as hyperlinks that connect directly to the Web, demo software, and additional design resources.
Iacocca said, “A man ahead of his times, is broke.” Try and go to these incredible sites and discover the failure rate of cutting edge websites. Great designers none-the-less.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book offers deep views into enchanted, very emotional worlds, that prove how computers and software can be used to create soul-touching art-work. It preserves sites that are worthwile exploring – the book is dedicated to graphically rich sites, which in an average webworld seem to have no place -
Rating: 5 / 5
A truly fab design reference for the web. One of the best collection of web graphics that I’ve seen. (Web Designer)
Rating: 5 / 5
Typical of designers from the east and west coasts, function seldom if ever gets in the way of design, design, design. This highly over-rated volume is full of busy, dark, dreary web sites that are evidently created for other “clutter-driven” designers. If you’re really looking for some ideas on building an attractive (and functional) web site, you’d better look elsewhere.
Rating: 1 / 5
I sincerely expected a lot more. Be aware that, as of 2000, most websites featured in this book either do not exist any longer or have gone under a complete facelift. The CDROM included was quite disappointing: just a directory of the featured sites with a low resolution graphics of their splash page; there is an option to connect to them but the links are mostly outdated. I think the only value of this book is its inspirational content: some of the sites do indeed look great (I wonder about their loading time though) and will inspire some of us to do “a little more”. This book was probably great 2 years ago; it has little value nowadays.
Rating: 3 / 5