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From Vincent Flanders, co-author of the best-selling Web Pages That Suck, comes an all-new, irreverent look at the web's worst. Whether you're designing a site for your digital photos or in charge of your Fortune 500 company's web presence, you need to read Flanders take on the many mistakes that undermine some of the best-known sites on the web.

Within these full-color pages, you'll:

TREMBLE at the horror of Mystery Meat Navigation
RUN SCREAMING from splishy splashy Flash pages
CONQUER your web nightmares by learning the four guiding principles of smart web design
MASTER the art of spotting a page's flaws in two minutes flat

Written from the ground up to cover today's biggest web design challenges, Son of Web Pages That Suck also features a CD packed with great utilities to help you design, test, and manage your site, plus links for web-based resources discussed in the book.

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Sequel to the best-seller Web Pages That Suck and based on the insanely popular, award-winning site WebPagesThatSuck.com

Web usability expert Vincent Flanders is back, with an irreverent new look at the Web's worst. If you design Web sites or hire people that do, you need to hear Flanders take on the many mistakes that undermine some of the best-known sites on the Web. Within these pages, you'll:

TREMBLE at the horror that is Mystery Meat Navigation
RUN SCREAMING from splishy splashy Flashy pages
CONQUER your Web nightmares by learning the four guiding principles of Web design
MASTER the art of spotting a page's flaws in two minutes

Flanders skewers sucky pages from Britney Spears, Microsoft, Century 21, Jesse Ventura, and tons of others, all so that you can be sure you don't make the same mistakes they did. You'll learn crucial techniques for developing content that keeps people coming back, optimizing your graphics, choosing effective text colors and matching backgrounds, and plenty more.

Whether you're designing a site for your digital photos or are in charge of your Fortune 500 company's Web presence, Flanders' scathing commentary will have you laughing while his insights have you learning how to create a truly effective site for your audience.

CD Description
Includes a CD with Software That Sucks Not! Get 16 excellent utilities to help you design, test, and manage your site, plus links for sites and Web-based resources discussed in the book.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Only for beginners and suckers, Feb 2 2004

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This book has a little bit of useful information for anyone above the beginner level. Very little. The book can be repetitive and the bizarre pictures just distract from the content. And the author is not even a graphic designer! I would think that would be a requirement to write a book of this kind. The author is simply not very qualified to write a book on web design.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A definite "must have"..., July 31 2003

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if you are into web design. Vincent Flanders makes excellent points, and he does it with humor. This isn't your typical dry "how to design a web site" book. It has lots of examples, photos, and he includes some opposing points of view just to be balanced. I actually learned a lot from this book even though I only bought it because I thought it would be entertaining (and it was that too). I recommend it highly.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Learn what not to do when designing web pages, April 4 2003

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Book - Son of Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad
Design
By Vincent Flanders with Dean Peters
Publisher - Sybex
List [...]>ISBN: 0-7821-4020-3
Rating - 5 out 5

Son of Web Pages That Suck is the follow up to the very successful book Web Pages That Suck by Vincent Flanders. The book consists of 279 pages, broken down into 14 chapters. The book also comes with a CD containing links to the websites listed throughout the book. Son of Web Pages That Suck is my first book on web design and will probably be the only one in my library for quite some time (until Daughter of Web Pages That Suck comes out). As the title suggests, Son of Web Pages That Suck teaches good web design by having the reader look at examples of bad web design. Throughout the book, Flanders explains why a web page does or does not suck.

The book's best quality lies in the very humorous and understandable way it's written. This is one computer book that isn't going to put you to sleep or bore you to death. One of the key points the author stresses throughout the book is "web design is not about art, it's about making money." Each chapter begins with a short introduction explaining what's going to be covered in the preceding chapter and ends with a summary covering the key points discussed in that chapter. One of the not-so obvious things Flanders covers is that you can make a web page that sucks without using tons of flashy graphics or other crazy design elements. Thankfully, he also discusses how to avoid making these same mistakes. Some of the more obvious web design topics Flanders covers include things like appropriate page and image size, how to stay on the right side of copyright law, professionalism, and why things like splash pages and "Welcome to my page" lines are bad. Another important point Flanders discusses is that while a certain theme or design might make one web page suck, it may make another rock-- depending on the target audience .If you've ever visited a Flash intensive website on a dial up connection, you'll appreciate Flanders chapter "Jumpin' Jack Flash."

I could continue to talk about all the great topics Flanders covers in his book Son of Web Pages That Suck, but that would take far too much space for a book review. I highly recommend that you go and buy the book and read it for yourself. I give Son of Web Pages That Suck a highly deserved 5 out of 5 rating.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A solid update of the original book
Having thoroughly enjoyed the original "Web Pages That Suck", I was quick to buy this sequel. If you haven't read either book yet, just buy the "Son of" sequel, because it is... Lisez davantage

Published on Dec 31 2002 by todd0607

5.0 out of 5 stars buy this book before you publish
This book is mandatory reading before you "go live"
Provides a reality check

Published on Oct 13 2002