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5 Responses to “Head First Web Design”

1. Sacramento Book Review
   October 31st, 2009 at 6:04 am

   This book is not for beginners or even those with a decent background in web design and HTML/CSS. The Head First series appears to be a web design version of “Idiot’s Guide” or “. . . for Dummies,” but it fails to capture the readability and easy writing style of those best-selling series. The authors state outright that Head First Web Design is not a reference book, but its cover differs little from web design reference books, which will cause a problem for unknowing buyers. The book is full of nice details and informative asides, but the layout negates the “keep it simple” mantra repeated in the text–each page is full of distracting illustrations and vintage photographs with one-liners, and the images switch from color to black-and-white with little cohesion. For a book that is supposedly not a reference book, there is little within the Head First Web Design to justify its nearly 500 pages. The authors’ enthusiasm and knowledge comes across clearly on every page, but Head First Web Design reads more like a seminar on web design and less like a book.

   Reviewed by Angela Tate
   Rating: 2 / 5

2. M. Star
   October 31st, 2009 at 6:32 am

   Product arrived overseas in under two weeks. Excellent condition. I really enjoy these books and would by other titles in this series from this seller. Sorry for taking so long to leave a review, moving house and all that jazz. Cheers
   Rating: 4 / 5

3. S. Schmitt
   October 31st, 2009 at 8:23 am

   The book delivers on all its promises, does a great job of teaching web design and is a whole lot of fun in the process.
   Rating: 5 / 5

4. Mehmet A. Akgun
   October 31st, 2009 at 11:05 am

   Easy to understand; full of hands on explanations and practices. You will love it. Would suggest to anyone.
   Rating: 5 / 5

5. A. Sattar
   October 31st, 2009 at 12:52 pm

   Pros: Easy read. Helpful methodologies. Good references.

   I have to admit that I found the format of this book interesting. The writers’ tried to inject a lot of character, color and some lightheartedness into something that can become very dry reading. Some aspects becoming tiring after a while, but an overall good job. There are some good strategies here. The books delivers good pointers on how to handle information architecture, lay out a web page and color theory. I also appreciated that the book was sprinkled with links to great online resources for site designers and ideas on how to moved forward once you’ve read the book.

   Cons: Needs more meat

   This book is great for folks needing to build simple web sites. That being said, I wish it could have touched a little more on the back-end, server side of developing a web site. It did touch on how to build a blog, but I would have like more discussion on database technologies and how to build an application.

   Still a nice job and a learned a few things.
   Rating: 4 / 5