Review by Damian Konopka for Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Marketing to Reach Your Customers First Rating:
Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Marketing to Reach Your Customers First I just want to thank the Internet Marketer who’s email linked me to Michael Tasner’s landing page for this Clockwork-Orange-eye-opening read (yes, like toothpicks in the eye–you just have to keep reading…it’s that good. No Beethoven, though).
I turned down more pages than not in this quick, well-laid-out-and-organized book that can honestly and absolutely claim to be a Web 3.0 book. So many others are advertised as such but it’s the same ol’ technology they’re talking about. Not here.
I subscribe to and skim through more than 500 daily RSS feeds and thought I knew everything on it’s way down the tech pipeline. Difference is, Tasner is a bit of a visionary, but one who uses sound evidence and personal examples to back up his claims.
I definitely recommend reading this book at least twice. The first time through, it’s a bit breathtaking (i.e., exciting, not overwhelming) when the author starts discussing hot topics quickly emerging today like microblogging over blogging and his highly informative chapter on the booming mobile industry and how to take advantage of it.
Only a few hours after finishing this book, I had already implemented several of Tasner’s strategies that, as of today, two weeks later, have ALL paid off for the minimal time and effort with a) more Twitter & other Social Media site followers, b) my email subscription list has increased %175 on average per week.
I also want to say how personable and helpful the author has been to me, answering emails, offering encouragement, giving out bonuses for pre-ordering, etc.
Michael Tasner, I have learned, is an everyday “Nice Guy” who happens to be a marketing prodigy with a lightning-quick mind, years and years of creative and financial success, and author of the best web marketing book of the year, hands down.
Review by Charles Ashbacher for Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Marketing to Reach Your Customers First Rating:
If you have even the slightest knowledge of modern communications, then a list of the capability of the latest generations of handheld devices, including the iPhone, iPad and Blackberry will leave you in awe. Unfortunately, if you are a businessperson and you are not leveraging that capability to improve your business, then you should also be experiencing some terror. The rapid advance of what is often (and somewhat inappropriately) referred to as social media has created enormous opportunities for businesses and organizations to dramatically increase the speed and content of their communication with customers.
Web 3.0 is a broad term used to describe a wide spectrum of communication channels that can be considered the latest iteration. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have been an effective user of Web 2.0 in order to begin the process of implementing Web 3.0. This is not to say that it is easy, just possible.
Tasner does an excellent job in making sure the word “Practical” in the subtitle is an accurate description. Some technical expertise is of course necessary to have a complete understanding, but nothing at the level of the techno-nerd is needed. There are many tools available under the Web 3.0 umbrella and Tasner not only describes them, he also explains how they can be applied in an ultra-modern business model. Making it possible for you to use them.
Many of your competitors are most certainly already using at least some of the applications in the Web 3.0 world. Your choice in this matter is simple, either use them or face the increased likelihood that your organization will be brushed aside. Tasner’s advice will help you avoid the ultimate in brush-offs.
I LOVE how easy to use this book is! The table of contents is VERY detailed so it’s easy to skim over and find exactly what you’re looking for. I don’t have a lot of extra time to read through fluff and stuff I already know..there is NO fluff in this book, it gets to the point. And as mentioned, the table of contents is super user friendly. You can easily find what you’re looking for and skip over what you already know or don’t need to.
And, this book shows you EXACTLY how to implement, it’s not just a ‘what’, but really is a ‘how’. (so refreshing to see that!) Simple icons are consistent throughout the book including one for “checklist” and “to do”.
I was impressed with this very practical, easy to use guide!
As an entrepreneur and social media junky, I found Tasner’s advice right on the mark. While most of it applies to larger operations, the small business owner can still find quite a bit of value in the book. The format really helps. The author does a bit of self-agrandizing (what marketing person doesn’t), lays out how he used a particular piece of Web 3.0 technology and then gives an action plan along with some real world implementations of the projects.
The book provides a broad overview of what he defines as the Web 3.0 landscape . Much less emphasis is placed on Twitter and Facebook (thanks), but too much emphasis was put on virtual worlds such as Second Life. In between, he includes technologies that will help not just with your marketing efforts, but with practically infrastructure. For example, instead of saying “use cell phones to market to customers, he explains how to use SMS and MMS to reach your customers and suggests vendors that will help you do so. If you don’t know what SMS or MMS is, this book is probably going to be over your head. To understand his concepts, you need basic understanding of tech terms.
For the experienced technology or marketing person, must of the information will seem obvious and old news. However, reading the book sparked some great ideas on how my business and organizations can use technology more effectively. The best audience for this book is the business owner that does a little bit of everything and wants to work strategically with the marketing and IT department to leverage technology resources to give their business a competitive advantage.
This book is a short read and a great survey of all the technology out there that can help your business.
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This book identifies four developments that continue to evolve but remain relatively untapped for their marketing opportunities when compared to other marketing channels, and starts you off in the right path on how to seize such opportunities before your competitors do.
The four developments revolve around the still rising popularity of microblogging (e.g., frequent sending of 140-character “tweets” to subscribed followers), mobile devices, virtual reality world communities, and consumption of live streaming videos.
The author’s central thesis is this: while many people may be aware of and have started participating in these developments (these developments and the technologies driving them, while still advancing, are not pie in the sky dreams anymore after all, and have been around for a while), statistics indicate that many more will eventually become participants as well, but currently only a small percentage of businesses have caught on to the opportunities offered by these new marketing “venues”.
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Once an entrepreneur has established a presence in a particular venue, he or she must be able to rise to the challenge of maintaining and growing that presence. The author provides some guidance on this as well by mentioning what some of these challenges are and what help is available. For example, for back office or collaboration help, one might look into using Google applications which currently are low-cost or free; for custom software development needs, links to businesses that provide such services are given.
The book is concise and the guidance provided, though good, tends to be minimalist. The mileage you would get from any particular piece of information will vary depending on how familiar you already are with a particular “venue”. For example, even if you know what Twitter microblogging is, if you have none to only casual experience microblogging, you will appreciate the information provided on the various ecosystems that have sprouted around Twitter and how you can leverage them to your advantage. If you already know some of those ecosystems, then the additional information may only be incrementally useful or valuable.
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Review by C. Jackson for Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications Rating:
As somebody who debugs applications for a living, I found this an outstanding resource to both refresh my memory, give me new tips and tricks, and provide a frame of reference for sharing this knowledge with others.
If you do not already have a symbol server set up for your organization, then you should order this book today for the simple step-by-step instructions for how to do this. This is an absolute requirement for success, yet for some reason seems to be consistently overlooked and considered a “black art” or something that only the largest of organizations has the resources to execute on. John debunks this myth handily, and provides the best resource I know on overcoming this initial hurdle to greater success.
I heartily recommend this book to anyone involved in software development.
Review by a reader for Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications Rating:
I’d like to second the initial review: this is an excellent book. It covers the important topics about debugging, from project level issues (setting symbols and source servers) to code level issues (how to spot handle leaks with WinDBG). The book is engaging and easy to understand. It may even make you like debugging!
Some highlights include the great coverage of Visual studio and WinDBG. I use it regularly to look up a command or a tip-and-trick.
I didn’t give it five stars because some of the topics are too developed. For example, I didn’t need or want the long explanation about writing FxCop rules. I also found the book light on topics that are relevant to debugging such as instrumentation (perf counters and logging).
Overall this is book worth reading if you want to improve your development skills.
Review by Mark W Mitchell for Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications Rating:
I bought this book over a year ago, with about 8 other books, and had ignored it. I picked this off my shelf last week, while on a support call, and took it with me while on a short personal trip.
I learned so much from this little book about the improvements in .Net 2.0 for debugging, and how to use the tools in visual studio – in extremely productive ways, I would recommend you buy this book immediately and use it for the rest of your programming career!
I found the book extremly well written and it had me laughing and reading it out loud to non-computer people for the great humour that John Robbins put within the pages.
I have a problem at work, dealing with the clipboard and the need to have a static thread to use the functions, and on page 119 he cites that exact issue and how he resolved it.
I have not finished the book, – I am almost half way. The part about setting up a Symbol server went a bit beyond what I think I can do within my employers site, and it sounds like a lot of work, however his point is that the mini dumps that a user can send you can be loaded and you can pinpoint the exception with all of the data values, and call stack that was loaded at the time – which allows you to see what the problem was. Potentially saving hundreds of hours!
I also noted that there were a few links in the book pointing to the gotdotnet website,which I know has been reduced to very few remaining links (Microsoft has abandoned) – so some of this book (a few lines at this point) is going out of date due to the reliance on some web links still being there.
I personally find the parts about FxCop and the Code Coverage in VS 2005 as a good piece of instruction on establishing your own code rules – and if you want to have standards enforced – it will help you see how you can improve on your code. If you are avoiding improving your standards, then you can skip that – I would encourage you to learn from it rather than skip it.
If you are working in .Net 2.0 (or higher) as a developer – I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I had kind of ignored it on my shelf, and that will not be the case from now on. It has started to travel with me. I read it every chance I get so I can finish it and benefit from the incredibly practical examples and enjoyment of really great writing, that can spice up the book with real humour that everyone can understand. Outstanding!
Review by SPYRIDON PRANTALOS for Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications Rating:
This is a great debugging book. It is very analytic, detailed and extremely useful for simple developers, as well as for people who are debugging specialists. I am not giving 5 stars for the simple reason that it requires extensive setup in order to follow all the examples. In fact, setting up a VPC with all components necessary for using Source Server took me 2 days. IMHO it would have been great if a CD with a VPC image was available for download to save us from the pain.
Review by Itzhak Kasovitch for Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications Rating:
This is how a book should be written. This book is full of tips and technical advice. It points you to more resources to expand your knowledge. It gives a lot of high quality code that you can use both in production and as an example.
The book starts with chapters about the debugging process and the setup. Then it talks about proactive programming techniques. And the book concludes with guidance and tips for using the Visual Studio debugger and WinDBG, SOS and ADPlus.
The last thing I want to mention is that John Robbins has a worderful blog that you should subscribe to if you are interested in the subject and you can ask him questions about his book. I was always happy with his replies.
I’m not very fit to criticize/applaud this book because I’m not a network guy but I’m trying to be!
That being said…
At a little more than halfway through I have a far better understanding about networks and network technology than I thought I would by this point. Some topics aren’t covered in depth but I wasn’t looking for an all-exhaustive reference book, I was looking for a “comprehensive understanding” book: a book that could tell me something about most things having to do with networking.
I’m really busy with homework but highly recommend this book for anyone but especially for two kinds of people:
-people starting from scratch in learning about networks
-people looking to fill in the gaps unfilled by their previous education(s)
I’m sorry if I’m not a very good reviewer but I’ve tried to elaborate my thoughts… however poorly.
The book is a textbook and follows the design dictates of our publisher. Textbooks for students in the *Guide to* series don’t contain answers. Instructors get an Instructor’s Pack that has all the answer keys. That way instructors and students can gauge progress throughout the duration of the course of study.
For the reviewer who laments a lack of answers, tell your teacher to help you grade the end of chapter material that you complete so you can see where you’re at as far as studying for the exam goes. If the instructor does not for some reason have the Instructor’s Pack, have him or her contact a McGraw-Hill rep and get one.
For self-study, readers should not buy this version of the Meyers’ book, but rather buy the trade version. That’s the *All-in-One CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Guide,* 4th edition:
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@BetaFlux My Win 98 actually handles my flash really well. I downloaded some software of the place where a bunch of computers go together, and it finally took my flash.
I loooove the blue screen of death. Lol, jk. Really, thee only main time I get the bsod is when I take my flash drive outta my windows 98 when I have somem open.
it happened to me a minute ago but there was nothing written on it
it was just blue then my system did restart but it was the first time that happens but idk what to do.
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@Parrotluver2 You would have to do some research and find a mobo that will support a guad 4, or buy a bear bones kit, that way it will all be compatible.
The wires to connect to the mobo are built into the case or tower, You will most likely also need a newer power supply to have all the plugs you need.
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Beta it is my Recovery Drive But it use to be a Short Blue Bar Now it’s a Long Red Bar and says 1.06 GB Free of 11.4 used and if I Click on it it shows a Folder That Says Recovery than SCHJW then I open it it shows a Bunch of numbers/Listed and dated and very small kb
Do I Need to Wipe it and Reformat it ? to fix it thanx
@Parrotluver2 Your D: drive should be about 100mb using about 1/2 or less of that space, it is your recovery partition that is created by windows,
You might have accidentally saved data to that drive, the needed files are hidden on that drive so if you open it you should only see things that you have stored there.
Beta Question on my H.P D: Factory Image System Restore Drive it’s Red and Long it use to Be Blue Like yours is on your E: Drive What Do I Need to Do to Fix it ? Thnx
betaflux i failed to copy the stop error at the beginning when i started to get the BSOD but still my computer keeps freezing (cause that was the problem) But now the blue screen doesn’t come up so i dont know the cause is help how can i find the cause?
@BetaFlux Okay,thanks. I just tried it, and nothing it still only goes throught windows screen loading bar, then goes right to the blue screen, and crashes.
I should be clear by memory stick I meant jump drive. I have not altered anything in the machine.
Thanks
@1positivesoul Sounds like the memory you put in might not be the same as the other stick, try leaving one in at a time.
If it will not start in safe mode try VGA mode.
If it will start you can try:
Start, Run, type “sfc /scannow” without quotes and hit Enter
It may ask you for a disk to replace broken or missing files.
After doing this reboot the computer
You could also try to install an updated driver for your video card. and your INF driver for the motherboard.
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Review by Jamie Beth Wachstein for SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Volume 1) Rating:
This book is truly unbelievable. It’s like having an SEO expert showing you and very simple, step-by-step instructions, how to get your website or blog ranked #1 on Google. When I launched my website, I was very frustrated to find that it wasn’t listed anywhere on the search engines.
After about 3 months, I was finally on page 3 of Google but has no traffic. So I was looking for an SEO book and found SEO Made Simple. When I was at the book store, there were a couple of others books on SEO but they were way too technical. The author of this book is an every day guy who cracked the Google code. This book is a MUST HAVE for anyone with a website or blog!
The book is separated into two parts. The first is about on-page optimization. Basically, it tells you what you need to do on your website to achieve #1 rankings. The second part, which focuses on off-page optimization reveals some great techniques for publishing your website across the Internet and generating TONS of in-bound links to your site in less than a week. Truly awesome book!
Judging from the content of the many laudatory reviews, this book’s primary audience is among people who are amateurs or noobies in the field of website design and functionality. If your experience in designing a webpage is limited to a WYSIWYG editor, if you don’t understand XHTML, you’re not sure what tag, element, attribute or “meta” mean, then this book is probably appropriate to your level of knowledge.
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with being inexperienced. Everybody has to start at the beginning. However, if you are an experienced website designer who, hopefully, hand-codes your pages in XHTML and CSS, makes an effort to comply with current standards for the separation of structure and presentation, and are making more than a formal bow to the need for accessibility, then there is likely to be little of interest to you in this book.
To be fair, there are certainly many good pieces of advice here, despite the author using the first 20% of the ~100 pages to toot his own horn. However, there is little information that could not be found by spending a couple of hours searching the internet for SEO topics; i.e., almost all of what the author “reveals” is rather common knowledge. Again, in the interest of fairness, the author readily admits that he is not a code expert. As a result, there are very few useful examples of actual HTML markup code. The snippets that do exist would be old news to a real developer but, occurring without the context of a real document, would be of little use to a novice designer.The glossary at the end of the book, which takes up about 10% of an already suspiciously short volume, is the last place I would turn for a cogent definition of many of the terms he includes; e.g., “Cascading style sheets (CSS) – used to manipulate and easily manage the design of a website.” Hmmm…perhaps that definition could be improved and expanded a bit for the next edition.
As an ex-professional printer (many years ago), I was disappointed with the design and typography of this book. Besides coming across with too much similarity to the “Get Rich Quick with Real Estate Foreclosures” and “Dr. X’s New Wonder Diet” genre, the book is poorly edited (too many typos) and composed in a sans-serif typeface (alright, I admit to being biased against that), making it difficult to read for long lengths of time. Also, many of the screen capture illustrations are so small that I needed a magnifying class to read them. I applaud the quite-readable choice of a large point-size for the body type, but that also helps pad out to about 100 sparse pages what should have probably been nothing more than a pamphlet half that size.
To his credit, the author seems to have adhered to the pre-eminent rule of the medical profession: “First of all, DO NO HARM!” His advice is all good, if not exhaustive, and there is certainly something here for any newcomer to website functionality. He also does a good job of steering the reader away from the “black hat” techniques that may have been effective in the not too distant past. Kudos to him for that. But, in contrast to the many other reviews declaring this book as the be-all and end-all of SEO advice, I beg to differ. There are other books on the subject as good, or better, than this one. Given the short length, the sub-standard physical design and production, the pretty well known nature of most of the advice given, I suggest it is over-priced; a price more like $7.95 would come closer to the real value of this tome.
However, if you are a noobie who is being pressured by some self-proclaimed SEO expert, who is promising to get you on Google’s first page for the mere sum of $695, then buying and reading this book at its current price may very well be a real money-saving bargain! Bottom-line: it’s not a BAD book; it’s just not that GOOD! Caveat emptor!
Review by Suzanne E. Greco for SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Volume 1) Rating:
This is the first SEO book that I’ve read. I found it to be very straight forward and to the point. There’s not much fluff in this book. It gets right to the point and shows you exactly how to implement all their ideas. It was well worth reading and gave me a much deeper understanding of how google rankings are achieved. There are many things in the book that I didn’t get from searching the internet. It’s a very short book but it’s packed with good ideas.
Review by Roderick Armstrong for SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Volume 1) Rating:
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I highly recommend it and look forward to reading it again to gain additional insights.
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Just as the title says, “SEO Made Simple”. This book is a Blue Print on what to do as well as what not to do. Although the book is a thin 100 pages or so, the auther packs in lots of golden nuggets and useful tips helping you dominate search engine positioning. Very well written easy to understand no fluff, no technobabble guide on getting well ranked in the search enginse. Best purchase so far on the subject. I love “SEO Made Simple”. I highly recommend it to anybody wanting to get their site indexed the right way.
Review by for Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition) Rating:
New Rider’s slogan “Voices That Matter” is one that I generally take with a large pinch of salt. In Zeldman’s case, that’s true. If Tim Berners-Lee is the father of the internet, Zeldman and the team at the Web Standards Project are the net’s midwives. The W3C wrote the standards (or recommendations as they apologetically and coyly them), whilst Zeldman and his gang set about the hard, political and (until now) thankless task of bullying (browser-beating?) Netscape and Microsoft to conform to the standards that they’d helped set. Having brokered the end of the Browser Wars, they turned their attentions to the WYSIWYG tools like Dreamweaver, GoLive and (ahem) FrontPage, actually advising Macromedia on how to make DMX conform to Web Standards.And now, this time, it’s personal. Zeldman and the WaSP warriors are coming for you.”Though today’s browsers support standards, tens of thousands of professional designers and developers continue to use outdated methods that yoke structure to presentation”.This book is part of the campaign to educate us, the Web Professionals. It’s part polemic, and part tutorial. Polemic because so many of us are yet a-standard (or even anti-standards), and tutorial because there’s so much talk of why standards that a lot of us are saying “We know they’re important. We know it’s evil and wrong to use tables, and we know every time we use a deprecated tag a fairy dies somewhere – but how do we sew the DOM, XHTML, CSS and Accessibility all together?”This book tells you how, and – because Zeldman is a real-life designer, just like us, he isn’t pontificating from an ivory tower. This reader has read enough standards-fascists shouting “Ignore the real world!” and wonders if those authors actually do the stuff they’re frothing about. Zeldman tells us that “My bias [is] toward getting work done under present conditions – a bias I believe most of this book’s readers share”. (page 3). Inevitably, there’s a forest of three-letter acronyms, and a lot of frankly rather dull stuff to get through, but Zeldman is (to this reader) as much a writer as he is Standards Samurai. There’s a lot of jokes in the book. This reader is the first to admit that Accessibility, CSS, XHTML isn’t the most fertile ground for thigh-slappin’ gags, but there’s enough wry smiles and flashes of personality to keep you turning the pages.That’s enough of the tone; what’s the structure? Well, the first half of the book is the polemic. If you aren’t a standards convert, this will make you one. If you’re already a convert, but your boss/ client isn’t, strategically leaving this book on the corner of their desk could result in your professional relationship with that boss suddenly becoming a whole lot easier. Like many polemic computer books, though, there’s the danger of the first half of the book preaching to the choir.The second half of the book is where the meat is. We go step-by-step through hybrid XHTML layouts, DOCTYPEs Standards Mode, Typography and Accessibility, leaning by doing it. This is not theoretical. The only depressing chapter is the one titled, “Box models, bugs and Workarounds”, on how to accommodate the nasty gremlins of today’s browsers. Unlike legacy browser-sniffing that we used to do, however, the Workarounds here are not wasted effort. Standards-compliance is not perfect in today’s technology, but it’s not going away; the WaSP have generated an unstoppable momentum.What’s bad about the book? Very little, really. It was `fast-tracked’ through production, so the occasional page has a slight layout weirdness. Like many recent New Riders books, there’s a typographical prissiness (the numerals `2′ and `7′ in the body of the text are the worst offenders). These are tiny points, from a publishing pedant, that I’ve only really included because the rest of the review is so glowing!Wholeheartedly recommended. Bruce Lawson, DMXzone.com
review { information: priceless format: real-world, example-based; clarity: crystal; history: eye-opening; audience: essential reading for ALL web profesionals; humor: witty and wise as always; timing: perfect – now is the time for standards and accessibility – zeldman explains why and how; why: save money, time and do the right thing; how: tons of techniques and proven tactics with real world examples; bottom-line: actively using dwws as a tool to move my agency and my clients towards standard compliant practices; }
Review by Leah Hicks for Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition) Rating:
During the prehistoric era of the internet, there was no real guideline for making a website. It was done how one pleased: put a table here and there and viola, you have your layout. But tables were not meant for layout, they were meant for tabular data. Examples such as these are seen in “Designing with Web Standards,” and how they can lead to the detriment of the webmaster.
While “Designing with Web Standards” is not necessarily code-intensive, it provides plenty of real-life situations where web standards are important. It is not a guide to creating your website; rather, it is a guide to improve upon it. Jeffrey Zeldman demonstrates that web standards will, in the long run, save you a lot of trouble.
This book is a good read for those who wish to clean their websites and overall make the website less time-consuming and easier to manage.
Review by Rose Levy for Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition) Rating:
I came upon this book via glowing reviews on amazon, citations on websites, and exalted praise from cutting-edge web developers. This was THE book to read if you want to build websites that didn’t rely on spaghetti code and deeply nested tables, I was told.
I was greatly disappointed. While I appreciate the overall message of this book and some of the techniques are helpful, not only is it exasperating in its lack of information, but it actually commits the very sins that it relentlessly cites as the scourge of 99.9% of websites – redundancy, verbosity, and lack of clean, clear structure of what little information it imparts.
-REDUNDANCY AND VERBOSITY GALORE
The book really doesn’t even get started until Chapter 6 on page 153 (and even that is being generous), after mind-numbing repetition in the form of exposition, bulleted lists, and executive summaries about why one should design and build websites using web standards. There’s even a sentence on page 137 that proclaims, “Now let’s stop exulting and get down to work.” Well, guess what? It’s just a tease – and there will be plenty more — because the proselytizing never really stops.
When the author finally comes around to showing examples and their accompanying markup, it is sadly deficient. CSS that works with the markup is not even shown alongside it, although we are promised to be shown in another chapter. I learned very little about how to actually employ the techniques that Zeldman advocates so strenuously.
The meaningless subheads drove me nuts! Here’s a taste: “CSS: The First Bag is Free; The F Word; How Suite it is; Not a Panacea, But Plays One on TV; Inherit the Wind; Miss Behavior to You.” I know this might seem like a petty criticism, and maybe people are used to this style from the Dummies books, but 1. They’re stupid 2. They impart absolutely no meaning, so if the book is used for a reference, they are less than helpful and 3. The subsections are constantly referred to in all of their absurd and useless glory. This constant reference to other sections by Chapter Number, Chapter Name, Subsection Name smacked of gratuitous page lengthening to me. (If you must refer, why not just use page numbers? Takes up about 1/10th of the space (LIKE GOOD WEB CODE), or better yet, use footnotes!)
-CRINGE-MAKING BANTER
Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I don’t get this stuff. I bought a serious, technical book about the new age of coding websites. It cost $35 and at 415 pages, that’s about 8.4 cents per page. I don’t need breaks for mindless digressions about blueberry tofu pie, what title you were thinking of for chapter 6, or for that matter why you want to write in the first person plural. At times, Mr. Zeldman seems to almost flaunt it in our face that he’s wasting our time, e.g., on pg. 214 (after a discussion of how this isn’t a CSS manual, and how he’s introducing us to the “thighs” and “drumsticks” of CSS), he writes: “On the other hand, how many full-blown CSS reference manuals use the word “thighs” three times in one paragraph? You’re right none of them do. Your money was well spent on this book.”
And when he does actually explain something, it’s like being hit over the head with a jackhammer. It took more than half of page 159 to explain this XHTML rule: “write all tags in lowercase”.
-BAD TEACHING
The book is also sprinkled with pointless putdowns like “none of this is rocket science” (pg. 164), but the most egregious teaching technique occurs on page 196, when, mind you, very little actual teaching has even taken place. The author gives an example of markup from the Microsoft homepage (eek!) of what he calls “toilet debris” code and then goes on to say:
“Because redundancy is as bad in books as it is in code, we’ll avoid explaining what’s wrong with this markup. If you don’t know by now, one of us hasn’t done our job.”
Should the phrase “we’ll avoid explaining” ever be part an educational text? With all due respect Mr.Zeldman, I think it’s you who didn’t do your job.
Review by Bryan Winter for Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition) Rating:
First of all, this is an excellent book. It is well thought out, well written and provides lots of great instruction and examples. Zeldman does a wonderful job making his case for Web standards and the evolution of the WWW. But that is also the biggest problem with this book. Zeldman makes his case – and it is a great one. I’m convinced. But then he makes it again. And again. AND AGAIN. We’re fully 150 pages into the book before we actually start learing HOW to develop with standards. Now, I understand that a case needs to be made. I’m one of those “old school” designers that has been in this biz for years and years now. I’m a master of all those HTML tricks that are now taboo in StandardsLand. He was preaching right to me and I for one needed to be preached at. My methods are out of date, my skills need to be honed. No problem, happy to convert. I’m sold. So cut to the chase! Zeldman’s passion is clear and his wit is sharp. It really is an excellent read. But I also think he doesn’t trust his reader enough to understand his points quickly enough. The initial 150 pages could probably be boiled down to 50 or 75 with the same result, leaving more room for instruction and how-to. Still, highly recommended!
Review by Meryl K. Evans for Designing Websites for Every Audience Rating:
Many people learn by example. When reading documentation explaining the features of functionality, it doesn’t always make sense until seeing it in action. For instance, in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) font type is explained as: { font-family: }That isn’t going to make much sense to many of you even if you know CSS. What if I gave you an example of:{ font-family: verdana, arial, georgia, sans-serif; }Obviously, the is represented by the font names separated by commas with the first font taking priority. If the user’s computer doesn’t have verdana, then it tries arial and so on until it finds a font loaded on the user’s computer.Designing Websites for Every Audience starts with a chapter on usability with a focus on understanding users and the principles of usability. That’s the only lecture of the book and the rest is case studies.The book has 25 case studies sorted by user goals, which include learners, shoppers, connection-seekers, transactors, business browsers, and fun-seekers. Each case study covers the old site and the transition to the new design. Essentially, a before and after, which is popular these days with interior design TV programs.The case study pages are easy to scan. Every one has the company information, site information, users with their goals and tasks, goals of the redesign, and pictures. Benum uses a variety of Web sites for the case studies and discusses the problems with the old design. Then, she analyzes the new design explaining the common traps that have been disposed of and the action taken to improve the user experience.The book is beautifully colored including color screenshots of the designs. This is a good and a bad thing. Some of the side notes have a color background with black font making it hard to read, but this is the only negative thing in the book after all it impacts the usability of reading the book.We have plenty of excellent books on how to improve the user experience when designing Web pages, but there are few that guide you through actual examples. Any Web designer who learns by example will want this one on the desk for referencing when working on a redesign.
Review by richardpinneau.com for Designing Websites for Every Audience Rating:
First of all let it be said that this clearly IS an attractive, creatively designed book. Judging from the reviews (below) it has a lot of appeal for professional designers. Keep in mind that it is NOT primarily a technology how-to book. And yet there ARE some helpful clues to get a designer-new-to-web thinking about issues of how to implement pleasing, effective web sites: what is “Flash”? a “blog”? CSS? (cascading style sheets) …there are “browser compatibility” issues? But once you’ve been alerted to some of these technology quandries you’ll quickly need to turn to further education elsewhere. Fortunately, Benun has a nice selection of sites, forums, and publications listed at the back for your reference. If you are already well-versed in the technologies of the web, you may find that you can learn most of what Benun offers through a cursory scanning at the library. Certainly the sites (25 of them) discussed here are NOT analyzed “in depth” — the book is only 144pp after all. Offering a new way to think about the TYPE of audience(s) for which a site is designed is a nice contribution on Benun’s part (see elaboration in others’ reviews). If you are just beginning your design enterprise you may be upset to have laid out this much money for just a few starting ideas. For economy’s sake you may want to browse a wide selection (and it is wide) at a library or book shop.
Review by Tortorella Design for Designing Websites for Every Audience Rating:
I consider myself a print designer. But, over the past couple of years, website design has grown to account for almost 50% of my business’ revenue. So, I guess it may be time to change the way I see myself. During that transition, I learned that web work demands a different approach. Sure, print and web design share a lot of stuff. Typography, images, concept and layout among other things. The difference lies in how people use it. Print tends to be static. As such, folks often take their time mulling over the material. The web is a load more dynamic. People want and expect ease-of-use, instant information, intuitive navigation and aesthetics with functionality.If you’re like me, you’ve found that many of the rules you were taught in art school don’t all together apply to the web. That’s where Ilise Benun’s new book, Designing Websites://For Every Audience comes in real handy. This little tome is jam-packed with great info about usability, form, function and resources. It’s found a comfy home on the table next to my Mac. You’ve all seen design books out there that promise the world, but donÃ*t teach you anything you can use in real life. You’ve likely shelled out your fair of moolah only to be disappointed. Designing Websites://For Every Audience delivers the goods and is worth every penny (or currency du jour).Ilise starts off by addressing usability à what it is and why it’s important. The nice thing is her approach. It’s not a boring dictate of rules, but more of a discussion with comments from real-world designers and usability experts. The pages that follow contain a wealth of great information about what works and what doesn’t along with all the whys. She writes about research and audience profiling, understanding memory, audience demographics and more. Perhaps the biggest point she makes is that the audience isn’t just faceless “users,” theyÃ*re people. They’re your mother, father, siblings, neighbors and co-workers. We need to see the audience as such and not simply nebulous “clicks” and stats on our site logs.Beyond that, she distills web audiences down into six groups: learners; shoppers; connection seekers; transactors; business browsers and fun seekers. I found this very valuable in understanding what folks want and need during their visits to sites.The chapters begin with a typical audience profile that features their demographic, web habits, preferences and pet peeves. When you get into a site design, it can be easy to stray from the path if you’re not careful. These profiles are a great way to keep you on the straight and narrow. They also serve as a good start when developing a typical audience profile for your web projects.Each audience group section contains case studies that go into great detail about the hows and whys of the design. For instance, the “Learners” section covers a wide span of topics: The Organization; The Site; The Users and Their Goals; Goals of the Redesign; Navigation and Typography. The words come straight from the horses’ mouths – the client, the designer/developer and the audience. No guessing games here. The information is presented in a clear, digestible manner from the people in-the-know.Ilise sums up with featured site URLs and a page of additional resources that include web sites, books, organizations, forums and blogs, magazines and a list of the design and consulting firms featured within the book. All in all, a very thorough job.This oneÃ*s a mandatory addition to any web designerÃ*s library. Good beat. Easy to dance to. I give it a 9 out 10.Neil Tortorella Tortorella Design
Review by Robert W. Bly for Designing Websites for Every Audience Rating:
This is a solid book on Web site design and online marketing, but of course there are many solid books on these topics already published. What distinguishes Ilise’s book is its emphasis on the visual. Oversize pages and four-color printing on glossy stock allow you to really see what the Web sites she is analyzing look like much better than a conventional black and white book. Each site review presents the inside story on the strategy of the site plus tips you can glean from the sites and apply to your own Web work. A+.
Review by Harold McFarland for Designing Websites for Every Audience Rating:
There are a lot of books on the market today that teach website design. Very few teach the importance of creating a web site that is friendly and usable so the visitor has a positive experience and wants to come back. “Designing Websites for Every Audience” falls into that second category. It does not teach HTML or CSS or anything like that but what it does teach is much more important – how to create a website that people can use and want to return to time after time. The beginning of the book covers pretty typical usability information, but starting with Chapter 2 the book separates itself from the crowd. At this point Ilise Benum starts several chapters that not only discuss web site design but also tailors that discussion to specific types of users. A website designed for learners should be different from one designed for shoppers, or one designed for transactors, or one designed for business browsers. Ilise Benum goes through these and other user types as she discusses how websites should be designed just for them. Using specific examples from existing websites, she discusses usability factors before and after changing them. Complete with multiple detailed illustrations and analysis it is a highly recommended book.
Review by Adrienne Rice Adams for Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites Rating:
“Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites” is the first book on web design to focus on integrating marketing, customer service, accessibility, and web standards into the design process. It’s an accessible, clear, and up-to-date resource on best practices for modern business- and service-oriented websites.
Kevin Potts begins the book by pointing out that the internet is now an essential medium for businesses of all shapes and sizes; at the same time, customers are more sophisticated than in the early days of the internet, and have little patience for poorly designed websites. In order for a company to present an effective presence on the web, it “must deliver beyond customer expectations; better content, sharper design, smarter architecture, and more proactive communication and interaction are all components of websites that produce exceptional results for corporations.”
In the first chapter, the author begins by outlining what a company’s website should be doing:
* Providing customer support & company information
* Creating branding & market awareness
He then covers planning, researching, and selling the design (or redesign) within the company, then moves on to a brief overview of platforms and technologies.
The rest of the book proceeds to show the designer how to create an effective and compelling site for his or her client. He covers content creation, accessibility, architecture & navigation; essential sections of a company website such as the Homepage, About page, Products, and Support pages; error pages, print-friendly pages, legal considerations, and SEO; email marketing, RSS, and advertising campaigns and metrics.
This book is an amazing collection of diverse information presented in a clear and concise fashion. It’s not intended as an in-depth treatment of any of the subjects he covers–rather it’s an invaluable checklist of essential tools and considerations for designing a top-notch company website.
“Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites” has become a valuable addition to my reference library, and it is one that I know I will reach for first when I am planning a new or redesigned business or service website.
Review by Stephen E. Adams for Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites Rating:
“Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites,” by Kevin Potts,was first brought to my attention by my wife, Adrienne, a website designer whose business, Cloud Islands, develops business identity plans for internet marketing.
She recommended it to me as an extraordinarily useful text. I’ve found it particularly readable, including the chapters on platforms, content management, standards-based development, and other topics which normally are either over my head or simply difficult to read.
Potts’ chapters on content and SEO are cogent, provide excellent examples, and are as useful as any I’ve ever read. The book is only several months old, so he is even using illustrations from Google Analytics new web configurations.
It’s published by […], which is a publishing house run by and for web designers.
I don’t often recommend books for other people’s professional libraries, but this one is proving very useful to me.
Review by Nate Klaiber for Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites Rating:
Kevin Potts has done an incredible job of presenting the logical steps to make your site usable, accessible, and marketable. The web industry is a noisy one. Everyone has a website, and with the help of some text editors, anyone can theoretically create a website. There is, however, a big difference between simply creating a website and creating a usable website. I found the key to reading this book is to let yourself step outside of your projects. Take a look from the outside in and truly think about how to create value. Too many times we get attached to our projects and can become very narrow minded. The journey to creating a successful website isn’t always an easy one. There are many decisions that need to be made before designs are created or markup is crafted. This book starts us at the beginning of that journey, and walks us through some necessary steps to creating a successful website that meets our business goals as well as connects and interacts with those around us.
The decision making process
The beauty of the web is that things can constantly shift and change. We are not working within a static environment. We have the ability to change on the fly and monitor and respond to our needs. The first 4 chapters set the foundation for creating a marketable site. Addressing your goals, visions, and needs, and setting up the proper building blocks to give you the solid foundation you need. These things include redesigning your site and your objectives, planning your platform and content management, gathering up your content, addressing accessibility issues to give your site maximum visibility, and setting up your site architecture and navigation. Within these items you find a way to tell your story. Chances are there are many other’s out there with similar stories, so you need to take the time to plan properly.
Craft your words wisely. Understand the technology and the constraints. Ultimately, you need to understand your target audience and how they use the web. Without users, your beautifully designed site will be nothing more than decoration. Take the time to plan your architecture and navigation to match your user’s mental models. You need to first realize that, in most cases, you are not your target audience. Step back and empathize with your users and their browsing habits. These chapters give you all of the little details you need to build a solid foundation. You now understand your goals, you have designed to the needs of your users, and you are aware of the proper tools to use (and to avoid) to let your story be heard.
It’s all about the content
Now that we have the foundation, the next 6 chapters will walk use through some of the more common pieces of content found within an array of different websites. Pieces of content such as the homepage, an about us section, products and services – whichever it is that you happen to offer, harnessing the words that others have said about you, engaging your users through blogging features, and ultimately supporting your story and communicating with your audience. These pieces of content need to be structured wisely. No one piece should exist without the others. When done well, you will find ways to inter-weave your content between each of the different sections. Your homepage is a prime example of a page that has valuable real-estate and can be used to direct your visitors when you want them to go. The goal here is to not create your content in small islands, but to craft your content in a way that encourages scanability, readability, and interaction from your users.
Now we have build a solid foundation, and added our content on top of that foundation. Things are starting to fill out nicely and you are becoming proud of the the work you have accomplished. Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves, though. While things may look great, you still need to find a way to make your story known to others. That is, after all, the goal of this book, to market your website. Let’s now look at some ways to get in the game.
Shout it to the hills
You have a solid foundation. You have a well crafted architecture and quality content. Now the time has come to release your site into the wild. The next 5 chapters walk through some steps you can take to become more visible. The first of these steps involve planning your server to respond to an array of different request from your users such as proper redirects, searching both outside and within your website, gracefully handling errors and respectfully guiding the users, and understanding the different contexts users may be accessing your content (online, print, devices, etc). Next up you want to cover your bases with the legalese. This can be useful in many cases to protect your business, your content, and your users. Having this in place comforts both you, the owner of the website, and the user visiting your website.
The next section compresses what could have taken an entire book. This is the process of SEO: optimizing your architecture, your content, and your requests to give you maximum visibility. This chapter gives you some very useful tips for understanding how search engines find your content, and how you can let them freely crawl your newly built website or a re-worked existing website. Careful considerations need to be taken in both instances. This leads into the last 2 chapters that discuss outbound marketing and online marketing. All of these come under the umbrella of telling your story inside of a very crowded Internet. These chapters give way to very powerful techniques to getting into the community and interacting within it. It is the art of building relationships with those around you – both websites and users.
Now what?
Building a successful website takes time. You need to allow time nurture your website and watch it grow. As we recognized in the beginning, the beauty of the web is that we can constantly shift and change to fit our needs and goals. While this book covers a broad array of topics, it covers them in a very concise and readable manner. Whether you are a site owner with little understanding of how the web works, or you are a seasoned web developer trying to find the next steps, this book will be able to point you in the right direction.
Kevin shows the very value of connecting with those around you, by providing a very useful appendix of useful resources such as books, websites, and articles that expand on each of the topics found within the book. If you do any marketing on the web, then this book will prove to be an extremely valuable resource both now and in the future.
Review by M. McDonald for Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites Rating:
When I purchased this book, I thought I was getting a step-by-step guide for beginners who build websites. Unfortunately, it turns out this book is for the experienced web designer whose looking for more ideas. I found a better book for beginners through the “Dummies” series. Oh yeah, if you can afford it, hire someone to build your website!
@jmwwd LOL! Yes, Infoseek!! OMG, I would create a doorway page and be ranked #1 in 2 days. Wow, those days are long gone. You took me down memory lane with that one!
A blog would likely be a good choice, and platforms like WordPress and Community Server — which are both free and are widely supported — allow you to easily add binary and text content for others to download. Most blog frameworks are highly customizable and can be skinned to match the look-and-feel of your website.
There are literally hundreds of platforms to choose from. Which you pick will ultimately depend on your technical ability, the features you require, and what type of server you’ll be hosting on.
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What people need to do is to get off the google trap and start advertising their website on radio and tv. Google is unfair to the smallest sites. And what’s going to happen is what happened to ebay. All the major players stayed in, and many of the average Joe’s had to leave. And now ebay is just another scam site that serious vendors are staying out. Specially the ones from China.
One thing that people should know is that automated content is getter better and better impersonating genuine content especially when it can be copied from genuine content. The methods SE needs to tackle that problem will more and more affect people writing their content.
Really like your work, just come across it.
I’ve heard mention of the importance of a robot.txt file in root folders having some significance in SEO. Do you have an opinion?
You imply there’s less relevance to keyword density, do you think that may have some relation to the age of a particular site?
Hope you don’t mind my direct questioning 🙂 I’m relatively new to SEO with clients and projects, but I’m a confident reader and writer of xhtml,CSS and JS. All the best.
Thank you for your info, I think that all you need to do, is just buld a good website, and put information that people are looking for, and don’t worry about all this SEO & Metatags.
My site, has only been going for a few months and I have had over several hundred views as counted on my counter.
And the site is slowy starting to work for me.
Never pay much too to advertise, as it is a ripp off by the big players out there.
I loved the ideas of “not-liking-that-much” of the current seo’s concept which manipulate the Meta tags and keywords in becoming more popular on search engine. Thank you, Lisa. It’s worth my time just to sign in and comment on this video.
I’m launching 2 sites soon(not up yet, as of this comment.Under construction.)
But seo by itself isn’t all about meta tags. its about relevant content,keywords,networking web 2.0 to the fullest, and creating backlinks(to create popularity.)
It’s “all of this” and then some.
I take a Bruce lee approach to it. It’s like water, it “must” be adapted.
Use whatever works,discard what doesn’t.
And content will always be king.
My site coming August 20, 2010!
peace!
You just said engines ignore metatags for backlinks, which is obviously true – that’s the whole idea of google, AND engines ignore backlinks now too….WTF? Google doesn’t look for content quality; of course it looks for back links, no matter how you get them…
i have a question that needs to answered(PLZ help) .i made a click bank account and i started to promote a link.i made a video with the link i am trying to promote.now most people say that on clickbank you work for one day and money starts to flow “in”.now i don’t know how to get my link on the search engines.i don’t have a website nor a blog or much of any type of internet influence.i am underage thought i understood how click bank works but now i am quickly becoming confused.
I think what really matters in the Local Business field , is that you have a lot of traffic going to the site and maybe worry about ranking later . Focus on the costumer. the rest will follow. Key words aren’t really the capital in what I do as long as I flow traffic to the costumers site . Thanks Good Video !
Hi Lisa, I’m trying to get into digital marketing and need to take a course in SEO and SEM. I’m worried it may involve too much IT I’m not savvy in the field. I know enough to build and design websites. I’m hoping to earn a qualification with would get me into a digital marketing role. Is SEO too technical for beginners?
Review by J. Rose for Jumping Into Web Design >Head> First: Your Guide To Designing and Building Your First Website Rating:
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and putting the things I learned into practice. It really helped me to understand exactly what I needed to do in order to start up my website successfully. Things are humming along nicely now. I definitely could not have accomplished this much without the help of “Jumping Into Web Design >Head> First: Your Guide To Designing and Building Your First Website.”
Review by Ms. J. Butler for Jumping Into Web Design >Head> First: Your Guide To Designing and Building Your First Website Rating:
Its been something I have wanted to learn for ages, and after bying over 5 different books on web design I have found Jumping Into Web Design to be the best one. The main problem I found was that other books were too complicated and as am not that computer literate I wanted something simple and easy to understand. Within a few weeks I have my very own basic website.
Review by PMM for Jumping Into Web Design >Head> First: Your Guide To Designing and Building Your First Website Rating:
This text is a very useful guide for those wishing to gain fundamental knowledge about web design. Starting with the basics this guide helps build a foundation for one to start designing websites. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in learning how to create their own website. A step-by-step approach is used and in an organized manner which makes it possible for anyone to use this guide and learn effectively.
Review by Michael J. Schuhler for Jumping Into Web Design >Head> First: Your Guide To Designing and Building Your First Website Rating:
If you are looking to do some web designing, look no further! I purchased this book along with other similar ones, and Id have to say this was the most informative. Anything you need to know about starting out is here. It is well written and easily understood. This book is a deal compared to the texts used by universities and tech schools that teach the same material at triple the price!
The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design
Like the first volume, this is full of carefully picked examples of the best in modern web design. It’s organized into very clever topics making it the perfect reference book. It’s loaded with screenshots, screenshots, and more screenshots… just as before, but all new, and more recent.
In this version, the screenshots are even larger and easier to pick up on detail and text. They’ve also included “Developer Notes” which I think are pretty insightful and in context.
If you are involved in web design in any way (even if you’re hiring other people to do it), this book will be super handy. The two editions are the same size and style… they’re intended to be on the bookshelf together. With the two combined, there must be a thousand organized designs to look through. The amount of work that went into collecting such quality work without “filler” junk is astounding.
I’m really impressed… if you can’t tell!
On the negative side: I’d personally prefer these came in large hardback coffee-table books. While maybe not as handy, it certainly would be great to have around the agency. Maybe after the 3rd edition, they should release a combined volume!
Anyone who wants to know where design is going should buy this book. I have ordered several for my friends who are thinking of getting into this field or already are…!
Review by Jason Beaird for The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design Rating:
As a web design author, I often get asked what books I recommend. This of course depends on who is asking and what they want to learn, but one book I often pass along is Curt Cloninger’s original* Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground from 2001. The specific design examples are quite outdated now, but to me, that book was a pivotal source of inspiration at a time when everything online seemed to be either boringly corporate or awkwardly amateur. Cloninger helped me to see the web differently; I learned to creatively tag design trends and techniques so that I could mentally catalog them for my own use.
This process of mentally classifying design inspiration has become a critical part of my growth as a designer as well as my ability to explain web design to the non-designer. In The Web Designer’s Idea Book, Patrick McNeil takes the task of cataloging current trends and styles to a meticulous new level. Within the book’s 256 pages, McNeil has sorted over 700 screenshots of stellar site design by color, design style, type, theme, element and structure. Within these 6 chapters, he has defined a total of 75 individual design categories. Some examples of these categories include: Blogs, E-Commerce, Minimalist, Wood, Pink & Blue, Muted, Rays, Gradients, Tabs and Massive Footers. Then, within each of these seemingly exclusive categories there are a few paragraphs explaining when, how, and why it should be used along with an average of 8 or 9 example screenshots.
Obviously, reading this book will not teach you to be a great website designer. What it will do is expand your design vocabulary and train you to break down your favorite sources of design inspiration into bite-sized chunks that you can use in your own work. I spent a good portion of the cold, rainy weekend reading through the text in each category and pouring over the pages of screenshots. I saw quite a few familiar examples of good design, but was amazed by quantity of inspirational sites that I had never heard of. If I had one complaint about the book it would be that I wish all of the screenshots were full-size, or perhaps if they couldn’t be, that there was an archive of the full-size screenshots posted somewhere on the web. Regardless, I’m sure the book will be a huge source of inspiration for me for years to come. Then, when it is too old to serve as inspiration, it will most certainly be an excellent resource for web design history.
* As I was writing this review, I discovered that Curt Cloninger just released a sequel to this book: Fresher Styles for Web Designers: More Eye Candy from the Underground You can be sure that I’ll be reviewing this book as well in the near future.
Review by Keith Donegan for The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design Rating:
This book does just one thing, it showcases beautifully made websites and the author does this extremely well. The Web Designer’s Idea Book is a must have for any web designer/graphic designer out there to have real world examples of good design on hand.
The actual sites themselves are pretty good. I wasn’t blown away by them, but was impressed and inspired. I keep a folder of bookmarks of sites that I think look good, categorized by “theme”. This is a nice little handheld thing to quickly scan through to get some quick ideas or some quick inspiration.
I do wish some of the thumbnails would have been bigger, the pages a little larger, or the book itself a little taller. Some of the pages are stuffed with thumbnails and it can be a little difficult to discern what that header really looks like, or what that button really says.
Also, some of the themes could have used a couple more sites. Some categories like blogs are literally 2 pages. If you’re gonna have a whole category I’m sure you can find a few more pages of nice sites to fill.
With all that being said this is a good book for 15 bucks. Especially if you are a web designer of any sort, this is a great resource to just have and flip through right before a new project.
Review by Thomas C. O’Malley for Web Marketing For Dummies Rating:
Jan Zimmerman’s Web Marketing For Dummies gives you an excellent overview or summary of internet marketing tactics and strategies. She clearly helps you determine the purpose of your website and how to drive traffic to your website or landing page. She covers many topics from search engine optimization to blogging.
This book helps anyone who is starting online marketing and it provides an excellent checklist for experienced webmarketers. In fact, her Web Marketing Methods Checklist in chapter 2 is worth the purchase price of the book alone.
When you want to “drill deeper” on any particular online marketing strategy, you will then have to explore other online marketing resources and information. For example, Peter Kent’s Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing For Dummies provides thorough information about pay per click advertising, including Google Adwords.
In short, I highly recommend Web Marketing for Dummies for both new and experienced internet marketers.
Review by Lloyd Metcalf for Web Marketing For Dummies Rating:
As a small tackle shop owner, and not a marketing Guru, I found this (as well as many of the Dummies books) to be worth every penny a hundred times over.
Because of this book, our web site and plan got an overhaul that WORKED. Straight forward advice, links and dos and don’t about getting your website out there, useable, web friendly, and real world ideas on how to bring qualified traffic to your site.
I would suggest this before you dump money into adwords, or any other strategy you find online at random.
We found connections inside to usability studies, digital customer service tips, real working costs of aquiring new customers, guerrilla marketing techniques.
Simply put, if you have a website, or are getting one, you need this book. I will be buying an updated copy with every new release to keep on the cutting edge of what REALLY works in the digital world.
Review by Jeremy J. Baker for Web Marketing For Dummies Rating:
This books is a good primer on Web Marketing, but it does not go into detail(as is the case with most Dummies books). I already knew most of the material in this book.
If you are new to web marketing, this is probably a good book to get you started. If are not a novice, you will probably not learn anything new.
All of the material in this book can be found on the web for free, but it is nice to have a bunch of nice introductory marketing information in a book.
Review by Paige Petersen for Web Marketing For Dummies Rating:
Web Marketing for Dummies is so clearly written that even a “dummie” can learn how to market a product or service on the internet. This book covers everything from building a web marketing plan and establishing a strong web presence, to promoting a product with e-mail marketing, search engine optimization, and other social networking tools. With this marketing guidebook you can also learn how to expand your visibility and measure your marketing success. The amount of money spent on this book will exponentially increase your return on investment. This book will help you “translate your marketing skills to the online world.”
The author of Web Marketing for Dummies was trying to give all the tools necessary to succeed when creating or improving an online presence and marketing a product or service on your website. They tell the reader in the introduction to “keep a picture of your customers or clients in mind as you read this book,” then later explains that in order to make the right decisions, consider the customers’ question, “what’s in it for me?” I thought that question was essential to note. It is important to keep in mind your customer when trying to develop any kind of web marketing strategy. This book is organized into eight separate categories to help achieve that goal.
1. Prepare your plan: set goals, define your market, know why people buy, and craft an online marketing plan
2. Draw them in: learn what makes an effective online storefront and what your site must offer to encourage shoppers
3. Direct mail (21st century style): use e-mail marketing effectively and spread the word via e-newsletters
4. Improve search engine rankings: optimize your site and search terms with best practices and online tools
5. Be a smart shopper: develop a pay-per-click and banner ad strategy that ensures you get your money’s worth
6. Keep it legal: safeguard copyrights, link legally, and use disclaimers, terms of use, and privacy policies
7. Tease them with technology: entice customers with video, blogs, webinars, podcasts, or widgets on your site
8. Analyze: track site activity with web analytics, interpret sales statistics, and determine where problems originate
I really liked “The Part of Tens” that follows these eight main categories. This section of the book describes ten free ways to market your website, the ten most common mistakes of web marketing, and ten tips for tired sites. If you already have an online presence and some sort of marketing plan in place or in mind, these are probably the most crucial chapters to focus on. I found that this section was the most helpful and easiest to apply.
The Pros for this book greatly out-weigh the Cons. Web marketing for Dummies is well organized and easy to read. It is definitely written for people without background knowledge of internet tools or technology. There is a web marketing glossary of need-to-know terms as well as useful market research sites that can help research your target market online. Icons are used throughout the book to indicate when something is important to remember, when there is a helpful tip or a warning, real world example, technical skill that may require additional help, and who to call for assistance. These icons make the book easier to scan and reference in the future. Throughout the book there are also numerous lists of websites to look at. There are websites listed for sample web provider directories, social networks, sources for automated content updates, international search engines, classified ad sites, and many more. Inside the front cover of this book there is also a $25 coupon for Google AdWords to get you started advertising your website. After that there is a cheat sheet that lists the important points of the book. It is broken down into website secrets for marketing success, what every successful website must do, the search engines that matter, ways to attract repeat visits, useful marketing research sites, and a glossary of terms. This was a huge pro for me because I could refer back to the important topics to remember.
There are a few cons I noted while reading this book. There are a few times when the reader is instructed to have “their web developer” add a specific feature to their website; however if a small business or single entrepreneur is trying to perform these tasks there are no instructions. It is also implied that it would be too difficult to write into the HTML what is suggested. There is also a lot of information that pertains to marketing for an online store. I personally am working on a web marketing strategy for a website that doesn’t require any purchasing and therefore skipped those chapters.
Overall this book is essential for web marketing. I would definitely recommend it for anyone that is looking to learn more about web marketing or start a marketing campaign on the internet. Web marketing for Dummies can be used to spread your marketing message to businesses and consumers while establishing a strong web presence.
Review by E. Calamusa for Web Marketing For Dummies Rating:
This book is a must have for anyone who is just beginning or wants to learn some new tricks. It is so hard to get to the top and even harder to stay there. With these tools at your disposal you will be able to overcome most of the difficulties associated with web marketing.
@wicked4u2c I know right! “I’m Not On Matt’s Team..” Like bitch Matt cutts will own your Google expertise! Kanye should have went up on stage and be like, “Vanessa I know you cool and everything, but, MATT CUTTS IS THE SHIET!!!!!”
Matt does state that the MayDay update was an attempt to get better quality sites ranked higher for long tail keywords. I know that IM gurus, lazy webmasters, scrapers and auto bloggers tend to target long tail keywords. Its easier to get high rankings because of lower competition than popular keywords. However Google and real site visitors don’t want to see that poorly assembled duplicate content. Or worse still spun content that doesn’t make grammtical sense. Be real, write real.
Review by Tommy Olsson for The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Rating:
I’m not a graphic designer, I’m a techie. This book is a good introduction to graphic design for the web that even I can understand.
Jason Beaird takes us through the design process in a number of steps: layout, colour, texture, typography and images. He shares his wealth of in-depth knowledge in a way that makes it accessible even to those of us who do not have a university degree in design. He doesn’t dumb it down, he just explains things very well using an easygoing literary style sprinkled with good-natured humour.
By itself this book will not teach you good web design. It doesn’t go into any technical details and it (naturally) focuses on the visual part and aesthetics. Things like semantics and accessibility are subordinate and some of the practices he suggests are less than ideal from those points of view.
There are even some fairly serious errors in the code samples, but those are most likely introduced by the editor rather than the author.
If you know your way around (X)HTML and CSS, but struggle with making your sites more visually attractive, this book is a very good resource. It won’t automagically make you a top-notch designer, but it will teach you the foundations and – most importantly – explain WHY things are the way they are.
If you are a web design beginner the book is a good resource for the graphic design part, but don’t pay too much attention to the technical parts.
Review by TheOriginalH for The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Rating:
Having “stumbled” into web design almost ten years ago, with no real visual design background to speak of, I have over the course of time picked up principals. This was no easy task, and meant trawling countless websites and articles, being intimidated and awed by the breadth of knowledge and theory that is required to even suggest that you have an idea of what visual design is all about. Some of the articles I read required obscene amounts of concentration and application to the task at hand, as well as some difficult and surprising mental leaps.
A couple of years ago, “The Zen of CSS design” went some way to solidifying some of the pricipals I had learned, and helped guide me in new directions, yet still at times was a little inaccessible and while it is a great reference for themed ideas and principles, this new book has frankly blown me away…and I really wish it had been written a long time ago!
I possess several SitePoint books, but only two others have I read cover to cover in almost one sitting, and then revisited; Kevin Yanks’s PHP book and Stuart Langridges Java/ECMA script and DOM book. Not only was the content of these books superb, but the writing style was infectious and consequently the ideas were absorbed quickly. The same is most definitely true of this publication.
Targetted largely at the coding/programming end of the market, it essentially provides the reader with a firm grounding in the ideas, theory and some history of visual design, breaking it down into sensible chunks and providing just the right level of information to leave you not only with a solid base, but thirsting for further knowledge.
This publication could have saved me quite literally weeks and months of stumbling research had I discovered it years ago, and even now is a brilliant refresher for those of us unfortunate enough to have pursued a “proper” degree ;).
For budding and established web designers, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Review by James Holmes for The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Rating:
This is perhaps one of the best books I’ve read in a long time, mostly because it’s targeted specifically to folks like myself: those who are technically sound but graphically impaired. My solid skills behind a camera translate not at all to good site design and layout, so I was really excited to look through this book when I first heard about it.
Beaird has written a very concise, gloriously illustrated work that does a tremendous job of covering everything from layout/composition to textures and color. Throughout the book Beaird uses real-world examples of sites that illustrate the particular point he’s working on. Sitepoint’s willingness to spring for full-color printing helps nail down Beaird’s content.
The book clearly discusses layout fundamentals like balance, grid theory, and symetry/asymetry. The chapter on color hits color psychology (“Feeling a bit blue today?”), palatte selection, and the value of using color wheels to pick complementary and contrasting colors.
The rest of the book is every bit as golden, hitting texture, typography, and imagery. There are a number of terrific resources for fonts, colors, and images with a mix between free and commercial resources.
This isn’t a book to find out the details of how blocks flow and clear in CSS, nor is it a book to learn about the latest and greatest in AJAX/Javascript. What this book does cover, and covers well, are the higher-level, vital concepts you need to grok before you start wiring up AJAX controls and laying out elements.
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design isn’t just for lame design folks like myself. I imagine even accomplished web designers could learn a thing or two from it. It’s that good.
Review by Marten K for The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Rating:
A more appropriate title for this book is `things to think about when making a website and how me and my friends do it – for dummies’. The book does a fine job for such a title.
This book does NOT articulate a set of principles and explain their application; there is little to generalize to other problem solving contexts (or my context at least).
I am new to web development and for other self directed learning (Java, XHTML, AJAX and OO) I have started with a funky Head First book followed by more formal academic books (Booch, Bloch, Dietal, Larman, Jeremy Keith).
This book is neither funky or formal. Where the Head First series successfully uses cultural references and idioms to engage the reader in learning complex concepts and principles, this book uses similar devices with no obvious intent other than being familiar. Where the formal books locate material by referencing a broader academic context, this author references the somewhat creative work of his own and that of his friends. There is no bibliography and this is not a primer to the broader discipline.
The author admits difficulty in `verbalizing the procedures’ because much of his design is `subconscious’ (p24), he follows with four pages of stream of consciousness explanation on the realization of a design that includes over sixty `I’ references – and scant reference to design principles. There is NO discussion of the design principles underpinning well-known successful sites, nor how principles unfold in various contexts such as corporate sites, e-commerce sites, blog sites, sales sites, Gothic music and games sites, and so forth.
For example, fixed versus liquid layouts is addressed with pros and cons listed. The author concludes that ‘the decision [is]…determined by the target audience and accessibility goals of each individual web site’ (p29). However, principles for determining audience needs and their accessibility goals for different contexts is NOT really covered.
There seems disdain for academic rigor and technical knowledge: `the rule of thirds or…rule of turds’ (p10). `besides, my maths is a little rusty’ (p9) `Describing …emotional connections … with colors can be a hippy-esque topic’ (p39). There is no sense that the author is in command of the discipline, instead he appears embarrassed by its technical aspects.
Color blindness and accessibility are NOT covered. `Principle/s’ is NOT listed in the index.
I give two stars as it may be useful for some, as demonstrated by other reviews; and the book is well presented. However, I will fulfill my needs by looking for more substantial and perhaps non web directed books on color and graphic design.
[addendum 24 Nov 07 – See my review on “The Complete Color Harmony” by Sutton and Whelan The Complete Color Harmony: Expert Color Information for Professional Color Results (Color Harmony)for a book I used for principles of color]
Review by Nate Klaiber for The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Rating:
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird is a concise book about basic design principles. To some, design is something that is tough to grasp and is a mystery to understand. To others it simply comes naturally. If you find yourself struggling with design and need some direction, then this book is for you. Throughout each of the chapters Jason breaks down the specifics of layout and composition, color, texture, typography, and imagery.
Jason states his intended audience as someone who might be:
…squeamish about choosing colors, feel uninspired by a blank browser window, or get lost trying to choose the right font.
It is important to note that this book is not a book about code, but is about principles, inspiration, and education. With that brief disclaimer out of the way, here is a breakdown of the content found in the book.
The journey starts with chapter 1 and layout and composition. Before any keys are pressed on a keyboard, there is much work and research to be done. Jason talks about his design process and starting things off right with your clients. He gives a brief definition of what makes up good design. I am sure this could be many different things to different people, but he stresses the key points in relation to user interaction on the web. How easy is it for people to find what they are looking for? Does the design help them achieve their goals, or is the design visual eye-candy that inhibits them completing a specific task? Is the navigation and information easy to understand? Can the user navigate without feeling lost? The design process takes time.
Next he looks to the anatomy of a web page. Many pages have a consistency to them. There is a navigation, sub navigation. A masthead with branding information. There might be a search field to help locate different pages. There are an array of columns used for placement. There is a footer that usually has more details or contact information. These are just a few, and they don’t all have to look the same.
The next few pieces discuss grid theory, balance, unity, and emphasis. Each of these play an important role on how your information is presented. Aligning your items to a grid. Aligning your type to a vertical rhythm. Having balance between your sections. Having unity in your sub-pages as the navigation gets deeper. Placing emphasis on any given section. Each of these are discussed in detail and are accompanied by examples found on the web.
This chapter rounds off by Jason showing some bread and butter layouts, finding inspiration on and off the web, giving introduction to some new and fresh trends (you know, the Web 2.0 stuff), and then begins the application that we will watch unfold throughout the rest of the book, a website for Florida Country Tile.
With a firm foundation of layout and composition beneath us, it is time to address the aspect of color. We have all seen beautiful color combinations, and most likely our fair share of not-so-friendly-to-the-eyes color combinations. How do you go about selecting a color scheme for your website? Jason starts this chapter off by discussing the psychology of color. Color theory simply addresses how people react and relate to different colors. There are many variables involved, and some of them are even geographical in nature. What types of colors should you choose for your target audience? Looking to develop a site for a restaurant? Find out how different colors convey different emotions in your users. Color theory gives great insight into how people perceive colors found on your website.
The next few sections discuss things such as the temperature of your colors, the value of your colors, and then into a little bit of color theory. Each of these pieces are given adequate attention with even more examples shown. Things start to get fun as he moves into color theory. Here is where we see some methods used to creating elegant color schemes. No longer do you have to randomly select colors, now you can give your entire website some of that balance that we discussed above. Selecting a color scheme can be very difficult, but as Jason shows there are many options to selecting a color scheme that will fit the needs of your site. As he shows the process for creating a color palette, he moves on to the process of selecting a color palette for the application section. The Florida Country Tile website is starting to get filled out with an elegant color scheme.
The application is starting to come to life. We have a layout, we have a color scheme, and now it is time to see how we can make some subtle improvements through the use of texture. This chapter defines such things as points, line, shape, volume and depth, and pattern. Each of these come with illustrations to further elaborate on the topics. After looking through each of these things, Jason moves to the practical side and building your own textures for your website. This includes subtle background textures, textures for use as borders, and textures are backgrounds for different elements on a page. He gives the application a subtle enhancement by adding a textured background. Things are starting to evolve even more, and the site is starting to take form and life. Background images, drop-shadows, and section separators are just a few ways textures can be used to enhance a layout.
One of the often overlooked aspect of a website is that of typography. This is mainly due in part to the small selection of fonts available to web designers. Jason covers some ways to get around this shortcoming by use of sIFR and other image replacement techniques. Image replacement has been discussed in depth in many different avenues, and Jason doesn’t spend much time discussing these. This is an out of classroom assighment for you as the reader.
Now it’s time to dive in a little deeper. The next few sections are a brief history lesson. He discusses things like letterform, text spacing, letter spacing, text alignment, adjusting line height for an optimal reading experience, and some of distinctions of typefaces. Here you will see a breakdown of serif versus sans-serif, and some of the different variations of each.
With the history behind us, we move forward to what it takes to choose the right font for your project. This is always dependent on the client and the branding that needs to take place. Choosing a typeface is sometimes a difficult process, especially with the large amounts of fonts and variants available to you as a designer. Jason moves on to apply some of these principles to the application that we have been working on. He chooses the fonts he will use throughout the website, both in images and in the body of the pages. He proceeds to add some text on top of the imagery, as well as give some breathing room and separation to the content on the homepage.
Our journey to design bliss is coming to a close. The last chapter discusses adding imagery to give your site a bit of visual flair. Again, Jason begins with a few sections covering some history, what to look for, and where to look for it. This includes the legal implications of the different kinds of images that you may come across. Once we safely secure the images we want to use for the website, and are sure we have full permission to do so, we then move to cropping, adjustments with photoshop, and the different formats and resolutions available to use. Here we see a brief discussion of applying CSS to achieve some re-usable border treatments to our images. Finally, all of this knowledge is used to extend upon the application and give it its final touches.
verall, this book is an excellent resource for those seeking design instruction and inspiration.
Overall, this book is an excellent resource for those seeking design instruction and inspiration. The book is filled with screenshots of different sites and sources for inspiration as the author encourages us to look around for inspiration in our own designs. Seeking inspiration doesn’t always mean emulation. Find a way to make things your own for you and your client. As a reminder, this book might seem elementary for those who have a background and education in design. This book is for those looking to take small steps to improve their websites.
I did have one qualm with this book. This book is primarily constructed of principles, history, and philosophy of design. This means discussion of code and application specific techniques are kept to a minimal. However, given the target audience, it seems as though Jason makes many assumptions about the understanding of Photoshop and the techniques described therein. I know that it would take extra time to explain this process, and he even gives a disclaimer that it is hard for him to explain his entire process. Maybe it would have been nice to have an appendix with some more details to the Photoshop techniques he discusses throughout the book.
To make everything easier you can just hire a web design company to build and manage the website for you, I used these guys 24/7 NY Web Design they’re quick, cheap and reliable. Their number is 718-233-3120, glad I can help 🙂 Goodluck to all!
It is a very good tutorial about how to design a site. But the explanation is too fast. Search engines like Google cache text rather than images that are fast and your site will index ASAP. Design your site using text as much as possible and not images. Thanks for the information.
@candywrapp
its better if you know it. with photoshop you can save your website directly as html. however, the code can be very shitty messy (but the site works).
And with photoshop alone you can really do much. I mean, if you want to edit te site, you have to basically edit and clean the code that photoshop made.
It may seem easier to do web design through this video. But in reality, it really takes time to search for best designs and how to develop a certain design to come up with good website. That’s why I seek for professional help from create webworks dot com. They really have great collection of web designs.
Review by Michael J Woznicki for Network Troubleshooting Tools (O’Reilly System Administration) Rating:
I have been involved with networks and networking for over 12 years and I am always looking for new ways to make sure the network is running at its best, this book has provided me ideas that I hadn’t thought of before and the information is easy enough to understand. The author packs a serious amount of information in the 325 plus pages. Well documented and well laid out the author begins by showing you how to troubleshoot and what steps you’ll have to take in the problem resolution process. Using NETSTAT, IFCONFIG, IPCONFIG and WINIPCFG, ARP and PING are some of the utilities that are broken down and included in the book. Working with Windows, Windows NT/2000 and UNIX networks is the focus of the book. Other topics included are working with and the breakdown of cables and cabling, use of TRACEROUTE or TRACERT, analyzing traffics and packets through filtering and SNMP. Checking out the performance of the network is also an essential item and the author shows what traffic and bandwidth tools you can use. Finally FTP and TFTP servers and utilities are covered as well as troubleshooting planning. Overall for the network technician of all skill levels should be able to benefit from something in this book – well done.
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This might be a decent reference book if it contained more detailed information. I am a junior in college and was required to read this book from cover to cover and it was extremely boring. Anything the author discussed could easily be learned from help files or a quick glance at the website the product came from. THe author uses the phrase ‘this is beyond the scope of this book’ just when he begins to talk about something you may not have already known. In conclusion, this would probably be an excellent book for somebody just starting out using troubleshooting tools, but if you have had more then 6 months experience in the field you already know most of the topics he covers.
Review by M. P. Schiesl for Network Troubleshooting Tools (O’Reilly System Administration) Rating:
Eh, book was okay, but didn’t really flip my burger. If you want a nice primer on some of the software tools and commands that you can use for monitoring system performance, this book would probably be just fine. Could have used more graphics. Good for reading at bedtime or in your time off, but just a little too wordy looking if you’re in the field actually trying to get something done.
Review by Ron C. for Network Troubleshooting Tools (O’Reilly System Administration) Rating:
I bot this book for a friend who is a Jr-Mid level network (Unix) admin., who needed advice on this topic. This book does cover all the necessary topics. It’s understandable, not overwhelming, and, as the TOC shows, covers lots of useful, relevant topics. It’s also very practical. Worth buying!
Exactly what the person above stated…so i thought 2 ppl agreeing would help you. CMOS is nothing more than that little lithium battery that holds the memory of the hardware. And also the internal clock. This is why you can turn a computer off and a week later turn it on and the time is correct. Now, what you can do is if someone has a password connected to their BIOS and forgets it…you can remove the CMOS battery for a while and sometimes there is a jumper right next to it that will clear the BIOS password then that person can get to the windows boot screen.
if your repairing windows using a floppy or cd program you need it to ,change boot order, if you add a hard drive or disc player that dosent work, you can find out if bios even recognized it, if your buss or processor isn,t running at proper speed, you can check and change settings, you can enable a bios password, you can change the start up screen to show diagnostics or not
Review by Ian Peterson for Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols (CCIE Professional Development Series) Rating:
This is the best book I have seen in troubleshooting. Especially covering a tough topic like IP routing protocol. I particularly like the error message in each routing protocol. This allows me to understand the meaning of the error message that is not covered in any of the Cisco manuals. This saves me the trouble of calling Cisco TAC. This is a must book to have if you are in Network operations.
Review by William Katari for Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols (CCIE Professional Development Series) Rating:
This is an excellent book to have. The flowcharts guide me through different problem scenerios, I have already solved many routing problems already using this book. If you want to be a network expert, I say this is a book that you must have.
Review by Sean E. Connelly for Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols (CCIE Professional Development Series) Rating:
CiscoPress’s “Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols” by Shamim, Azis, Liu and Martey is mislabeled. CiscoPress has labeled this book as part of their `CCIE Professional Development’ series – I really do not see the value of placing this book in the same vein as other CCIE books in the series (such as Doyle, Solie, & Clark). However, having been employed as a Network Administrator for a number of years, the book does help troubleshoot and isolate routing protocol issues.
Each major IGP (RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF & IS-IS) along with PIM and BGP is discussed at depth. Each routing protocol is dedicated 2 chapters – one chapter discussing the protocol and one chapter discussing troubleshooting methodologies. The troubleshooting chapters start out with flow charts that can help isolate the issue. Too be honest though, the flow-charts are lacking in depth, and I found only helped verify simple routing issues. The book is also missing a much needed chapter on route redistribution.
There are not that many typos in the book. I give this book four stars as it takes a unique approach to troubleshooting routing protocol issues. However, I fail to find the reason this book needs to be on a CCIE’s bookshelf.
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This is an absolutely wonderful book to have. The flowcharts are easy to follow and it actually helps me to solve network problems for me. I am currently preparing for CCIE lab exam and I am sure this book will help me tremendously in the exam. Kudos to the authors who put this book together.
Review by Danial Peterson for Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols (CCIE Professional Development Series) Rating:
I strongly disagree with the comments “Same old stuff and that its a cut n paste from the materials that are already out there” posted by one of the reviewer previously. How could someone read the whole book comprises of 846 pages in 2 weeks with true understanding of what Author is trying to convey. Also I have been through half of the book in 3 weeks and its pretty help full is undertstanding in-depth nature of protocols and troubleshooting strategies to follow to nail them down in the real world scenario.I agree there is some common stuff that is already there but the best is that Authors try to convey the strategies to debug the problem in a logical manners. At last I would rather say it is very easy to give comments rather than to take step and write that kinda book.
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I have several books on Web promotion, but this is one of the best. Not only really updated analyze of search engines and useful engine tips, but plenty of valuable and little-known information about getting real business on-line, with real-life examples… Software recommendations also really useful. By implementing only a few suggestions, I am already enjoying increased traffic of returning shoppers! Thanks, Derek for sharing your experience! Good stuff!
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Well, my Web traffic increased about 200% over last 3 months, after implementing recommended changes and additions. When after reading I was not so sure about few steps, I visited the book’s Web site and e-mailed author with my questions. I received prompt and detailed answer, explaining my thoughts. The author also visited my Web site and made several additional suggestions! At last my little business is not in red, but making a real profit…
Review by David Pye for THE savvy way to successful website promotion; Attracting on-line traffic; Guide to top positioning on search engines Rating:
I read this book after buying it from Amazon. I used lots ofthe techniques mentioned for my websites to some success with my ownknowledge. As a search engine specialist I would reccommend this book to the begginer as a good resource but remind them that search engines change their workings very frequently making some of the figures out of date.My advice is a good buy as a useful general guide. END
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This review is from: Build Your Own Electronics Workshop: Everything You Need to Design a Work Space, Use Test Equipment, Build and Troubleshoot Circuits (TAB Electronics Technician Library) (Paperback)
I am an amature in electronics and have been waiting for this book to hit the book stores. I finally picked up a copy. I like the subjects covered. The content on at least some subjects leaves a little to be desired. There is a lot of verbal descriptiion but diagrams would have been helpful when discussing how to use controls on an oscilloscope, for instance. A fuzzy photo of an oscilloscope is shown, and then a detailed discussion is presented of how to use various dials, buttons and so on without any diagram showing where these controls are on the oscilloscope. Similar problems of what waveforms should look like without any diagrams, or photos of how they appear.
I am particularly concerned about the description of how to build your own waveform generator. A discussion of how to do this is given along with a parts list. A photo is then shown of the “assembled function generator”. However, the photo shows that this is really a Canakit (www.canakit.com) funtion generator. No credit is given to Canakit for this photo and the Canakit does not appear to be the same assembled function generator as the one described in the text.
Unfortunately, the author does not wish to be contacted about any questions about what he has presented in this book, since he has given no method of contacting him. A brief search of the WEB did not show any way to contact him.
I realize that writing a book of this size and range of topics is quite a labor, and I will try to get any missing info from other sources.
Electonics amateur/hobbyist
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This review is from: Build Your Own Electronics Workshop: Everything You Need to Design a Work Space, Use Test Equipment, Build and Troubleshoot Circuits (TAB Electronics Technician Library) (Paperback)
This book has lots of useful information for the beginner and overall I enjoyed the content of the book. However, it could have been a great book if PCBs or wiring guide diagrams were provided for the construction projects provided throughout the book. This is detail the beginner requires. Perhaps this can be provided through downloads from the publishers site? In addition, I found some references to components, such as resistors and diodes for example, from some of the projects listings that could not be located in the accompanying schematic.
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This review is from: Build Your Own Electronics Workshop: Everything You Need to Design a Work Space, Use Test Equipment, Build and Troubleshoot Circuits (TAB Electronics Technician Library) (Paperback)
Overall, I found this to be a helpful book as I try to re-kindle my interest in electronics after many years away from the hobby. It contains much good information and a great deal of detail with respect to setting up a home electronics workshop. In addition to suggesting commercially available products it also offers plans and parts lists for home built testing equipment. It would have been more useful if the author had provided PCB diagrams for the various projects outlined or a least a source for these boards.
My major complaint is that the book needs some serious editing. I have not read the whole book yet, but I have come across several sentences that were clearly overlooked in the editing process. Parts of the book are needlessly repeated almost word for word from earlier sections. The whole book is in much need of a critical re-editing and corrections.
Apart from these problems I did find it a helpful and useful addition to my library of electronics books.
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This review is from: Mastering Online Marketing: 12 Keys to Transform Your Website into a Sales Powerhouse (Paperback)
This book is great for anyone who is thinking about starting an online business, or about promoting an offline business on the internet. It really covers ALL the bases and is clearly organized and for this alone the book is a great investment. After all, online marketing can be very disorienting and this book does a fantastic job of laying out the playing field.
However, while it serves as a very useful overview, it is somewhat lacking in great detail which is my only gripe with the book, since it is called “mastering online marketing” and NOT “getting started with online marketing.” I know the author is extremely knowledgeable but I wish he had given more specific details about the logistics and mechanics of the strategies presented.
And to be quite frank, I also find the book a little too self-promotional, since it talks at length about the author and his site and related projects. I don’t mind a plug here or there, but at times the book reads more like a promotional tool than a self-contained how-to book.
Again, I’m not knocking this book, in fact, I have my sights set on reading Meyerson’s previous work, “Success Secrets of the Online Marketing Superstars” — so I think this author is giving us some valuable information, that I’m more than happy to absorb, and would not hesitate to recommend to others.
No doubt, Mastering Online Marketing is filled with useful information that beginners absolutely need to understand. However, for those of us with a little more experience, people seeking to “master” online marketing as the book’s title suggests, this work falls a bit short of the mark.
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This review is from: Mastering Online Marketing: 12 Keys to Transform Your Website into a Sales Powerhouse (Paperback)
Most of us who hang out on the Internet find ourselves suckered by those offers of books or “just $97” or “just $27.” We forget the truth: we can just go to the library and get a head start on a good marketing education.
I’m recommending this book to folks who are clueless about getting started on the Internet. It’s an excellent overview — clear and well-written in step by step format.
As a web site copywriter myself, I wish Meyerson had emphasized the importance of copy. There’s a nice quote from copywriting guru Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero (p. 86), but it’s in the design section.
Just about every Internet marketing guru says copywriting is the single most important skill for Internet marketers, so this chapter could have been much longer. I would also encourage newbies to start with copy and strategy rather than calling the designer first (which is what most people do).
And I wish we had a section on features vs benefits with examples of bullet points.
Still, this book is one of the best (if not *the* best) I’ve seen for broad overviews of Internet marketing. You can always dig deeper once you’ve got a sense of the basics.
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This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
I agree with other reviewers, Jakob does present his ideas as Rules You Must Follow, rather than observations or suggestions. On a few things, he offers no data to back up his assertion, and on a couple things I know he’s factually incorrect. I also agree that there are a lot of typos in this book, but only if you’re observant.
However, what he does present is just great. I like the writing style. I like the example images. For example, when he says to design for “any” screen size, and then shows you 3 screenshots of Web sites that lock themselves into a certain size, that certainly illuminates how stupid some designers can be.
One other point. Jakob is writing for usability, about how people get information. He pays no attention to marketing issues, such as branding, creating product interest, giving the customer a memorable experience, entertainment, etc. It is fine that he concentrates on other areas, but know before you buy the book that you will have to make up you own mind in those areas (at least). For instance, site reports from the Web site I work on show that any time I throw a DHTML “whiz-bang” widget onto the site, the area it is promoting gets a doubling to a quadrupling of traffic. That flies in the face of his “don’t use whiz-bang features” philosophy. But I’ve learned that his data and my data don’t always agree. So take Jakob with a grain of salt.
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This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
Desigining Web Usability is, overall, an excellent book. I agree with one of the previous reviewers who stated that if you are a seasoned Web designer/developer there is not a ton of information here that is new. But it is nice to have it all in one place and so lavishly presented. The production value of this book is very high and is itself an example of excellent information presentation (albeit in the print world).
The book is especially good for those new to Web site design and usability. I have seen all too often how graphic designers or especially marketing types and executives new to the Web insist on designing a Web page THEY like instead of one usable for the intended audience.
Overall you may not agree with everything Dr. Nielsen says but if you take the basic principles to heart your Web pages will be much better. A key principle is that just because a page looks good does not mean it functions well. Dr. Nielsen will show you how to do that.
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I gave up with mine to be honest! I just went and bought a new one! They are so cheap these days and after messing around with the old one for several hours, I just got annoyed and thought, “Oh bugg** this for a game of soldiers!”
This review is from: Mastering Online Marketing: 12 Keys to Transform Your Website into a Sales Powerhouse (Paperback)
I loved this book. The author wrote it after noticing an emerging group of coaches, counselors, and trainers starting to build virtual businesses (ones being conducted over the phone and Internet). He was a professional with his established practice in cold and dreary Illinois. And he wanted to escape from that climate and location, but didn’t see how since his meal ticket was in Illinois. He researched how to build a virtual office for himself. Then took the plunge to do so. And now, by writing this book, he is selling what he learned in the process.
This book is very well outlined and written. Not a word is wasted. It has 12 chapters:
1. The entrepreneurial shift: The key to creating an integrated business mindset
2. Strategic marketing: The key to sustainable online success
3. Products and services: The key to smart selling
4. Design and navigation: Making your Web site dynamic and visitor-friendly
5. Dynamic Web copy: The key to getting people to respond
6. Traffic conversion: The key to increased sales and list building
7. Automation: The key to increasing e-commerce profits
8. Multimedia: Increasing your impact using audio, video, and conferencing
9. Traffic strategies: The key to getting more visitors to your site
10. People power: The key to successful affiliate programs and partnership
11. Web 2.0: The key to using social media effectively
12. Momentum: The key to systemmatizing your business and building your virtual team
I’m in the process of building my own virtual business. And although I didn’t learn anything new by reading this book, I highly recommend it to others who are considering creating a virtual business of their own. Those people are typically coaches, counselors, and trainers of one sort or another.
I liked almost all of the chapters with the exception of Chapter 10. I’m not much of a believer in affiliate programs. I realize they work well for some businesses, like porn, but most others don’t benefit from them. The part of Chapter 10 regarding partnership is right on, though. 5 stars!
PS. A great book to read along with this one is “Four Steps to Building a Profitable Coaching Practice” (ISBN: 0595296602). Read my book review for it that I posted on Amazon. And you might also like “Web Business Success” (ISBN: 0974924504), and “Make a Fortune Promoting Other People’s Stuff Online” (ISBN: 0071478132)? I have written book reviews for both, too. :)
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This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
Nielson’s book offers a straightforward and intelligent presentation of web design with a keen awareness of the big picture and what actually happens when users visit a web site. All times the practice of simplicity and ease of use are emphasized in page design, navigation, content and overall web site development.
The book is heavy (literally!) with high quality color printing featuring hundreds of web sites to illustrate each of the points discussed. This could be regarded as a serious textbook that takes a deeper cut into the art and science of effective web site design than the more amusing (and also valuable) reads such as “Web Pages that Suck.”
Nielson addresses such issues as users with disabilities, the global nature of the web and the implications of multilingual sites, the use of metaphors, and the numerous other issues including download times, URL design, graphics, streaming video vs. downloadable video, site structure, color and text design, and so on. The book really “gets into it” and does not shy away from the nitty, gritty details, using its large quantity of illustrations to fully address each point. While it comes across as heavy handed on some occasions (“Do it this way”) where an experienced web designer may see alternatives, this detail provides a great introduction for those new to web design.
This one text effectively captures the most significant topics associated with designing effective web sites that will accomplish the task at hand. Reading it will put the overly zealous gif animators and latest plug-in proponents in touch with the world of the average user. Given some of the hideous web sites I’ve seen even from Fortune 500 companies with large web development budgets, Nielson’s book is a voice of reason and intelligence in an area where hype and flash can cause people to lose sight of their objectives.
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This review is from: Designing for the Social Web (Paperback)
The book is a fast read. It’s written in a conversational style, which means it’s sometimes very verbose but rarely difficult to understand. There are some references, most of them to blog posts or web sites. A lot of the information sounds more like opinions and the background info is not really explained. The writer makes many unnecessary comments and opinions on things that are very loosely related to the treated subject.
The scope of the book is large. This means that the treatment of topics is shallow. Inside one chapter I could find very interesting paragraphs and then a couple of pages of uninteresting (too shallow or repetition of something that was self evident or repetition) musings. The book would have benefited from more editing and condensation of ideas, as it seems the writer would have had more to say on many topics. This is why it’s a shame that the expression is not more condensed and organized.
I would recommend the book as an introduction to many issues concerning modern web site design from a non-technical perspective. I didn’t find many new things in the book, but found some inspiring thoughts or comments on existing sites. The problem was that due to the unevenness, there was no fast way of recognizing the less interesting material. But, it’s a fast & easy read, so not too much time is lost on the boring parts. I felt i got some ideas & inspiration from it which is always nice.
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This review is from: Designing for the Social Web (Paperback)
Joshua Porter pours his knowledge about user interface design in social media in this title. While the AOF method (Activities, Objects and Features) he presents early in the book gets a bit confusing when you first read about it, very quickly you get his point.
The design framework he presents is aimed at taking new users of a social site through the steps that make up the usage lifecycle: not being aware of the site > becoming interested in it > using the site for the first time > becoming a regular user > becoming a passionate user.
I see a practical application of Joshua’s design philosophy in the way Ning.com (a platform for you to create your own social network) is put together: it is easy for a new member to sign up and create/manage a profile page, interact with other members and sharing with others inside or outside the network so as to make more people aware of the network.
The main downside I found to the book was that, in an attempt to be more comprehensive, it went into certain topics that had little to do with design, such as the case with the chapter on “Authentic Conversations” (why they are the most important thing you can do for your social web site) and the closing chapter on “Funnel Analysis” which seemed a bit rushed and disconnected from the rest. Still, the chapter on authentic conversations was useful and even the one on metrics carried weight and useful tips, just not as much as the rest of the book.
Overall, a very good reference for folks needing to catch up with the social web in the sites they manage.
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This review is from: Designing for the Social Web (Paperback)
First, this is not a programming book- there are no lines of code. Instead, this is about the design of social websites. It is very well written, with many illustrations and examples, in a style which makes it both easy to read and useful as a reference. It’s clear that the author put a lot of time into this- probably because he’s read countless books himself lacking in these areas. You can probably find books with more information on each topic he discusses but I have never seen one that pulls the information together so completely and coherently. For this alone, he deserves high marks.
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This review is from: Troubleshooting Oracle Performance (Paperback)
“Troubleshooting Oracle Performance” is the most thorough, yet physically compact book covering performance tuning with Oracle 9i R2 through 11g R1 on the market. It is quite clear that a great deal of effort was made by the author to carefully verify the tips and test results contained in the book and to organize the material in a logical progression, thus building a bridge between the reader’s current understanding to the understanding of complex tuning approaches.
What this book accomplishes, which most other performance tuning books seem to miss, is to indicate which performance tuning features are available in each Oracle release (and which are available at no additional licensing cost) as the various performance tuning approaches are discussed. Not only does the book indicate when a feature would be appropriate, but also potential problems (“Pitfalls and Fallacies”) associated with each feature.
The depth of coverage of Oracle 11g R1 features is surprisingly thorough given the short amount of time which that version has been on the market. A little more detail in a couple areas, such as hacking stored outlines, would have been helpful; at the same time, everyone who reads the book might have a different opinion of what needed additional detail, the book could have grown to 2500 or more pages, and likely would have been obsolete by the time it was published.
The Apress Roadmap on the back cover of the book indicates that this book should be read before “Forecasting Oracle Performance”, “Expert Oracle Database Architecture”, and “Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals”. The “Troubleshooting Oracle Performance” book seems to assume that the Oracle database concepts are well understood. As such, it is probably wise to read “Expert Oracle Database Architecture” first, followed by this book, “Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals”, and finally “Forecasting Oracle Performance”.
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This review is from: Troubleshooting Oracle Performance (Paperback)
BOTH Developers and DBAs can learn from this book. Along the line of “Optimizing Oracle Performance” by Cary Milsap; this books shows by clear examples how to Identify Performance Problems (Chapter 3) and how to solve those problems (the remainder of the book).
Developers can learn how to Instrument code to help the tuning process.
DBAs can then trace the code and find the bottleneck/waits.
This book bridges the gap between Developers and DBAs and points out indirectly that Performance is a teams effort and solution.
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This review is from: Troubleshooting Oracle Performance (Paperback)
This book is exremely useful for Oracle Administrators and Developers alike. It is easy to understand and contains valuable information for everybody interested in understanding Oracle performance issues. The author demonstrates an excellent method to identify wrong Optimizer estimates that lead to suboptimal execution plans.
The author shares dozens of “best-practices” and advices from his personal consulting experience as well es detailed information which is not available in Oracle documentation.
My personal highlight was the introduction to a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use SQL Trace Analyzer TVD$XTAT which overcomes the limits of tkprof for SQL Response Time Analysis.
This book is a must-have for every Oracle professional.
Martin Decker
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This review is from: SEO Made Simple (Second Edition): Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Paperback)
I have had a chance to read all of Michael’s books on SEO and have yet to be disappointed. This one is no exception. Michael clearly outlines the steps needed to search engine optimize your website. I have recommended this book to many of my friends and business contacts who are interested in learning about SEO. If you are a small business owner or a blogger and would like to get more traffic your site, this is the book you need.
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As the owner of a web design firm that offers a growing bundle of SEO services, I have spent thousands of dollars staying up-to-date with the latest strategies for search engine optimization.
But despite the big-name conferences I’ve attended, this $30 book is the best investment I’ve made in SEO.
The author does a phenomenal job of covering every phase of the process. In fact, I hit Amazon this evening, because I’m buying 4 more copies that will be distributed to every part of my team… 1 for our lead web programmer, 1 for the people doing keyword research, 1 for our copywriter and 1 for the people who focus on link building strategies. There’s stuff in here from which everybody can benefit.
I also appreciate how it’s organized. If you like text – there’s a section in each chapter with text. If you prefer pictures, the second part of each chapter is chock full of diagrams and images that would allow somebody to learn a lot with minimal reading.
I highly recommend this book.
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This review is from: Ranking Number One: 50 Essential SEO Tips To Boost Your Search Engine Results (Paperback)
As a business owner I’ve been looking for an understandable book on this for ages. Well written, with comprehensive coverage of how to get my website ranked high. Highly recommend.
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This review is from: Search Engine Optimization: Your visual blueprint for effective Internet marketing (Paperback)
I did not read the 1st edition, but I just finished the 2nd edition of this ‘visual’ book. As an instructor of search engine optimization both offline at AcademyX in San Franciso and online at JM Internet Group, I try to read every new SEO book that comes out. It’s one way I keep my mind fresh and learn from the best and brightest.
Kristopher Jones has updated what is one of the landmark do-it-yourself books on SEO. I really hoped that the visual method would be more helpful than the word-heavy books that plague the SEO industry. That said, this book is also quite heavy on text and very, very light on theory. My students need simple step-by-step instructions that do not overwhelm them. This book has too many options, too many items, and not enough coherence about what is more important vs. less important in SEO.
Even on particular topics – like the Google keyword tool – he doesn’t give you enough detail. It would have been better to have more information, more visuals for the major resources like that, and drop the cornucopia of details on all the other, lesser tools. One tragic error – he indicates that Google does not use the meta description tool, and that is patently wrong.
At any rate, it is still a very good book and deserves a spot on anyone’s reference library for SEO. Some of the tools and tricks can be found nowhere else.
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This review is from: SEO Made Simple (Second Edition): Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Paperback)
As someone who has been around search engine optimization for a long time, I have to say how happy I am with the second edition of SEO Made Simple. The book took some time to revise given all of the changes to Google and the time required to expand the techniques originally introduced a couple of years ago. There are plenty of SEO books out there but only one that shows you exactly what to do in order to achieve the results you’re looking for on the world’s largest search engine – Google.
Others have tried to emulate the success of SEO Made Simple… but don’t be fooled. There’s only one guide that time and again is getting results for those who want the number one position on Google and other major search engines. The techniques are proven and have been expanded in the new edition. Not only have the original techniques been updated to reflect appropriate changes, but new techniques have been added to cover algorithm changes from the latest Google updates.
The book is very comprehensive and covers everything you need to know to achieve #1 rankings – plain and simple. It gives enough information to help with your understanding, without over complicating things. The book is designed to explain what to do and show you exactly how to do it without the fluff.
I’m personally most pleased with the new content that’s been added. Not only is the topic of universal search covered in detail, but a step-by-step plan is revealed that shows you exactly how to build an authority web site that can command top rankings as you seek out and expand search terms. If you’re looking for search engine results, than SEO Made Simple (second edition) is the book for you!
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Many SEO books focus on keyword optimization, but this little number is a veritable compendium of techniques. If you applied half of what you’ll find in here, your site would be more optimized than you can even imagine. This covers everything from content to links to blogs to micro-blogs to forums to reviews to directories and communities and ad copy and keyword bidding… whew. No other books comes even close to the variety of options that Kristopher’s book has. You’ll learn more about variations of SEO techniques from this book than any other source. So start here, and if you need to go further in depth on any of the topics, you can branch off into some of the other fine books out there on specific topics like landing page and keyword optimization.
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At […], we operate in one of THE most competitive businesses: How To Make Money Online and like most Internet Marketers, we’ve avoided SEO like the plague, because everything we’ve heard tells us it’s too complex, that the sands shift too quickly and that we can’t beat the big players. James and his book have turned all that around for us and we got to keep our sanity and our savings intact. Our rankings are rocketing & we’ve understood a thousand times more about the process than we thought we would. Technical knowledge is one thing, but interpersonal skills are just as important to the client: James has both and he deploys them both with equal skill. Highly recommended – every SME owner and every Internet Marketer should buy a copy.
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This review is from: SEO Made Simple (Second Edition): Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Paperback)
“SEO Simplificado: Estratégias para Dominar o maior Buscador do Mundo.” (tradução livre).
Ainda sem versão em português (setembro/2010), um excelente livro para iniciantes (como eu!) no assunto – SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – Otimização (de sites) para Buscadores.
Algumas palavrinhas sobre SEO
A inclusão digital e o crescimento da penetração da internet na população fazem cada vez mais com que pessoas juridicas e físicas busquem seu “lugar ao sol” no mundo virtual. No longo prazo, quem não estiver na internet e não tiver papel ativo nela, infelizmente será considerado um cidadão de 2a categoria. Quase que se não possuir um site, um blog, um dominio que seja, seria como se não tivesse um RG nesse “cibermundo”. Isso desencadeou entre os que já tem seu site, seja institucional, loja virtual, blog, etc., a necessidade de competir para ser “encontrado”. Isso tem dado aos Buscadores – sites de busca como o Google, Yahoo, Bing e tantos outros – poder para direcionar o tráfego de internautas para determinados sites. Cada buscador tem seus parâmetros e métodos para considerar um site mais relevante que outro. Portanto, para serem “achados” pelos buscadores com mais facilidade os sites estão alterando suas arquiteturas dentro de um conceito de Otimização para Busca, o tal SEO em inglês.
Sobre o Livro
Junto com o recém publicado “PPC made Simple” – algo como “Pay-per-click Simplificado” – forma a dupla de livros do Autor sobre como melhorar a performance de um site nas buscas do Google, o maior buscador mundial, seja otimizando-o internamente, seja criando links de outros sites, seja pagando anuncios (pay-per click).
É relevante a quantidade de opções gratuitas ou de baixo custo para otimizar a arquitetura de um site para torná-lo mais facilmente “achavél” pela máquina de busca do Google.
Fleischner divide o livro basicamente em duas partes: otimização no próprio site (On-page optimization) e otimizações na popularidade do seu site (Off-page optimization)
Vamos às principais idéias do Livro.
Otimizações “On-page”:
. certifique-se de incuir suas palavras-chave entre os meta-tags.
. cuidado ao selecionar sua URL. Tem de fazer sentido com as palavras-chave.
. confira se o HTML está correto (W3C).
. nomes das imagens devem ser completos e ter relação com as palavras-chave.
. as palavras-chave devem aparecer entre as 25 primeiras e as 25 últimas de cada página.
. use itálico, negrito e sublinhado para destacar palavras-chave.
. elimine arquivos em Flash.
. use o mínimo possível de Java.
. tenha sempre o mapa do site atualizado (isso ajuda o Googlebot a navegar).
. pesquise palavras-chave e use as menos competitivas.
Otimizações “Off-page”:
. ao desenvolver links externos, lembre-se que links de uma via (para seu site) valem mais que os de duas vias. E que links valem pelo PageRank do site de origem. Portanto um único link de um site com bom PageRank vale mais que inúmeros links de PageRank ínfimos. Não abuse dos links recíprocos (de duas vias), principalmente se o PageRank “barganhado” não for maior que o do seu site. “Qualidade atrai qualidade”.
. certifique-se de ter as palavras-chave escritas no link externo.
. pesquise os concorrentes, principalmente os de PageRank maior. Veja quem dá link para o site do concorrente.
. adicione marcadores de sites sociais em seu site, para que os vistantes possam não apenas marcar seu site/matéria, mas encaminhar e dividir com mais pessoas.
. distribua matérias-notícias para a mídia com links para seu site.
. tenha um blog com link para seu site.
Enfim, o livro é muito bom no que se propõe ser: direto, simples e claro. Uma ótima referência para quem precisa saber de SEO mas tem baixos conhecimentos como programador.
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This is an amazing book for marketers; you can read from the beginning to end or pick up where you want depending on your level of expertise or need for SEO. As a marketer I am always looking for ways to improve online marketing and awareness. This book is just that: provide you with practical tips and tools to make your company rank #1.
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It depends on how much freedom you want when designing a website. You can start easily by learning some basic HTML, there are many tutorials of the internet. However, if you plan on making dynamic web content such as forums or blogs, hard coding it would take a long time. There are many pre-designed packages available for free that allow you to create dynamic web content.
Graphic design comes in pretty handy in web design, mostly for resizing and compressing images. But you can do that without any expensive software packages.
Well you can either use a WYSIWYG like Dreamweaver or learn HTML, http://www.w3schools.com. Dreamweaver I find is a little hard to understand so I would start with HTML to see how you do first.
If you need a free webhost to practice there’s http://www.000webhost.com or you can use Notepad.
hit the windows button on your keyboard. it should be next to your ctrl button on the left. it will open up your start menu. then you can use your arrow buttons to get to my computer there. good luck!
Hold down the Windows key and hit the Pause/Break key (beside ScrollLock). This should open the My Computer properties screen. More such keyboard shortcuts at the link below.
Hold down the Windows key (next to Ctrl) and press Break (usually at the top right of your keyboard).
Alternatively:
Hold down the Windows key (next to Ctrl) and press E. This will open Windows Explorer and My Computer will probably be highlighted (if it isn’t use the arrow keys to select it). You can press the Context menu key (next to Ctrl on the right hand side of your keyboard) and choose Properties.
press ALT+TAB then when the icon is highlighted click the keyboard key near CTRL,, it is like a paper and a arrow.. hit it then a drop down will appear then choose properties by keyboard.. hope it helps… please rate my answer… thanks!
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This is a great introduction to designing web pages for mobile phones because it covers the basic knowledge one needs to understand the design challenges posed by mobile phones. It does require a basic understanding of XHTML, CSS, and a little Javascript to work the examples in the book but the information is great and the examples are thorough and clear.
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The book is great!! The authors explain a potentially complicated subject in such a way that even a relative technology notice like myself understood it. This is the first “for dummies” book I’ve purchased, but I’m tempted to stock up now.
On a side note, I was also surprised and pleased to see that they prominently mentioned the mobile website of indie songwriter Tori Sparks. My husband and I have been a big fan of hers for years.
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I wish more authors of this type of content would take the time you did to research and write so well. I am very impressed with your vision and insight.
Review by Damian Konopka for Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Marketing to Reach Your Customers First
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Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Marketing to Reach Your Customers First I just want to thank the Internet Marketer who’s email linked me to Michael Tasner’s landing page for this Clockwork-Orange-eye-opening read (yes, like toothpicks in the eye–you just have to keep reading…it’s that good. No Beethoven, though).
I turned down more pages than not in this quick, well-laid-out-and-organized book that can honestly and absolutely claim to be a Web 3.0 book. So many others are advertised as such but it’s the same ol’ technology they’re talking about. Not here.
I subscribe to and skim through more than 500 daily RSS feeds and thought I knew everything on it’s way down the tech pipeline. Difference is, Tasner is a bit of a visionary, but one who uses sound evidence and personal examples to back up his claims.
I definitely recommend reading this book at least twice. The first time through, it’s a bit breathtaking (i.e., exciting, not overwhelming) when the author starts discussing hot topics quickly emerging today like microblogging over blogging and his highly informative chapter on the booming mobile industry and how to take advantage of it.
Only a few hours after finishing this book, I had already implemented several of Tasner’s strategies that, as of today, two weeks later, have ALL paid off for the minimal time and effort with a) more Twitter & other Social Media site followers, b) my email subscription list has increased %175 on average per week.
I also want to say how personable and helpful the author has been to me, answering emails, offering encouragement, giving out bonuses for pre-ordering, etc.
Michael Tasner, I have learned, is an everyday “Nice Guy” who happens to be a marketing prodigy with a lightning-quick mind, years and years of creative and financial success, and author of the best web marketing book of the year, hands down.
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If you have even the slightest knowledge of modern communications, then a list of the capability of the latest generations of handheld devices, including the iPhone, iPad and Blackberry will leave you in awe. Unfortunately, if you are a businessperson and you are not leveraging that capability to improve your business, then you should also be experiencing some terror. The rapid advance of what is often (and somewhat inappropriately) referred to as social media has created enormous opportunities for businesses and organizations to dramatically increase the speed and content of their communication with customers.
Web 3.0 is a broad term used to describe a wide spectrum of communication channels that can be considered the latest iteration. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have been an effective user of Web 2.0 in order to begin the process of implementing Web 3.0. This is not to say that it is easy, just possible.
Tasner does an excellent job in making sure the word “Practical” in the subtitle is an accurate description. Some technical expertise is of course necessary to have a complete understanding, but nothing at the level of the techno-nerd is needed. There are many tools available under the Web 3.0 umbrella and Tasner not only describes them, he also explains how they can be applied in an ultra-modern business model. Making it possible for you to use them.
Many of your competitors are most certainly already using at least some of the applications in the Web 3.0 world. Your choice in this matter is simple, either use them or face the increased likelihood that your organization will be brushed aside. Tasner’s advice will help you avoid the ultimate in brush-offs.
Review by M. Buehl for Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Marketing to Reach Your Customers First
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I’m not completely clueless when it comes to web marketing/social networking/blogging etc. but there was a lot I needed to learn and actually implement.
I LOVE how easy to use this book is! The table of contents is VERY detailed so it’s easy to skim over and find exactly what you’re looking for. I don’t have a lot of extra time to read through fluff and stuff I already know..there is NO fluff in this book, it gets to the point. And as mentioned, the table of contents is super user friendly. You can easily find what you’re looking for and skip over what you already know or don’t need to.
And, this book shows you EXACTLY how to implement, it’s not just a ‘what’, but really is a ‘how’. (so refreshing to see that!) Simple icons are consistent throughout the book including one for “checklist” and “to do”.
I was impressed with this very practical, easy to use guide!
Review by D. Greenbaum for Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Marketing to Reach Your Customers First
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I really enjoyed this book!
As an entrepreneur and social media junky, I found Tasner’s advice right on the mark. While most of it applies to larger operations, the small business owner can still find quite a bit of value in the book. The format really helps. The author does a bit of self-agrandizing (what marketing person doesn’t), lays out how he used a particular piece of Web 3.0 technology and then gives an action plan along with some real world implementations of the projects.
The book provides a broad overview of what he defines as the Web 3.0 landscape . Much less emphasis is placed on Twitter and Facebook (thanks), but too much emphasis was put on virtual worlds such as Second Life. In between, he includes technologies that will help not just with your marketing efforts, but with practically infrastructure. For example, instead of saying “use cell phones to market to customers, he explains how to use SMS and MMS to reach your customers and suggests vendors that will help you do so. If you don’t know what SMS or MMS is, this book is probably going to be over your head. To understand his concepts, you need basic understanding of tech terms.
For the experienced technology or marketing person, must of the information will seem obvious and old news. However, reading the book sparked some great ideas on how my business and organizations can use technology more effectively. The best audience for this book is the business owner that does a little bit of everything and wants to work strategically with the marketing and IT department to leverage technology resources to give their business a competitive advantage.
This book is a short read and a great survey of all the technology out there that can help your business.
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Technological advances are giving us new ways to communicate with one another, express ourselves, get informed or entertained, and research or buy products. These developments in turn are providing businesses that want to grow new marketing opportunities.
This book identifies four developments that continue to evolve but remain relatively untapped for their marketing opportunities when compared to other marketing channels, and starts you off in the right path on how to seize such opportunities before your competitors do.
The four developments revolve around the still rising popularity of microblogging (e.g., frequent sending of 140-character “tweets” to subscribed followers), mobile devices, virtual reality world communities, and consumption of live streaming videos.
The author’s central thesis is this: while many people may be aware of and have started participating in these developments (these developments and the technologies driving them, while still advancing, are not pie in the sky dreams anymore after all, and have been around for a while), statistics indicate that many more will eventually become participants as well, but currently only a small percentage of businesses have caught on to the opportunities offered by these new marketing “venues”.
To help entrepreneurs seize these marketing opportunities before their competitors do, the author provides guidance on how to tap into each of these marketing venues, how to build a presence and play nice with and behave like the “natives” (e.g., acquire knowledge about lingo and etiquette), how to encourage people to interact with you (e.g., provide feedback on how well you’re meeting their needs or not) and opt in to give you information such as email addresses and mobile phone numbers, etc.
Once an entrepreneur has established a presence in a particular venue, he or she must be able to rise to the challenge of maintaining and growing that presence. The author provides some guidance on this as well by mentioning what some of these challenges are and what help is available. For example, for back office or collaboration help, one might look into using Google applications which currently are low-cost or free; for custom software development needs, links to businesses that provide such services are given.
The book is concise and the guidance provided, though good, tends to be minimalist. The mileage you would get from any particular piece of information will vary depending on how familiar you already are with a particular “venue”. For example, even if you know what Twitter microblogging is, if you have none to only casual experience microblogging, you will appreciate the information provided on the various ecosystems that have sprouted around Twitter and how you can leverage them to your advantage. If you already know some of those ecosystems, then the additional information may only be incrementally useful or valuable.
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@ZitrokLaus Get a 1024px width, make some rulers at 28 px (left and right), and work between that. 960 px grid is standard. 🙂
width normally is 1005px 😉 cause with an 17″ monitor (1024x768pixels) the page would fill the complete width of the monitor. the 19px-gap come with the scrolldownbar from the browser 😉
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any1 can link to my site number 1 on all search engine
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@SweetSaryna it’s only a header not a layout that’s why it’s small
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I think you should re-layout it with CSS.
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most serps have 3 sponsored listings above the 10 organic listing and often maps sitting above the organic.
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wow this is the first tutorial where i felt “dizzy”… dude zoomed in too much and moves around too much :s
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good tut but after watching I felt soo dizzy…
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zoom out a bit dude!! gees
very nice tips thanks…
2) 10:20 DON’T USE border=”0″ inside img tag. Instead try use css selector: img {border: none;}
3) FIRST OF ALL dont use tables!!! For positioning graphic layout. Instead CSS + DIV tags!
Thanks for the tips!
helpful tutoriale, but two things in in are really bad habits in use:
1) 9:02 DON’T USE align=”center” in html tags(deprecated). Instead try use css for example: table {margin: 0 auto} – aligning horizontal or i you want to align align objects inside element: table {text-align: center; [or] vertical-align: top, middle, or bottom; }
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Well Done! Good Tutorial. Subscribed.
@Th3ycallm3tom “It’s a bad idea to have your site coded in tables let alone have it automaticly coded by photoshop.”
Why is this the case? (I am a noob)
Great video! I like the beginning of the video! Can you tell me how you did it? Is it just a load of images from Photoshop with transitions or what? Thanks and well done!!!
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This is disturbingly bad. Deprecated tags, invalid tags and a mixing of style and markup. You’re teaching some very bad habits.
LOL HTML Center should be aviod. It is deprecated.!!!!!
What pisses me off is that when you put the colour in you have to use the american way of spelling it(color) instead of the normal way
This is very good thank you.
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This video is very helpful for beginners to design a site like this. By using notepads its useful for small sites but if you want to design a big site it will not be helpful. You need to type all tags in the notepad. If you want to design a site, editplus and note tab pro are very helpful.
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That’s the problem with me. The first I usually do is start utorrent…
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@iyz7 Intersting sight to see this vid. Okay, you’re right..
@Th0nixx Now I when I learned some on my own I can see your point but it was his video that finally made me to start learning it, I was procrastinating for a decade, just found a book I bought in 1999, I am really enjoying studying web design now and without this guy, I doubt to start until my job demands it. I think he, like a true talented teacher, is more about inspiration than facts.
I appreciate the video…but it’s really laggy for me and it’s stressing me out………
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4:57 – who wrote that? *lol*
Matt………. he is very genius.. all information which he is providing through his blog or etc.. all are very useful for all websites..
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Crazy men, they won’t never understood. Matt you can spend a lot of time recording this video, but they probably don’t know youtube exists 😀
MATT ROCKS. I WISH I COULD BE HIM 🙂
love you Matt
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Yeah, whatever..
A useful video of Matt Cutt about blog visibility
hey this james from acapidia – looks like the white guy so confident most of its discussions are so pathetic..boink boink..those are no longer accepted
hey what the hell is this?
@MrHuddy working for a multimillionaire company and doing the job he studied for , god what else can you wish for.
one secret of Google Advertising GOAL is true about TAGS! it’s definitly true! ;D
Go to my channel for cool stuff!!!
I INSIST PEOPLE, YOU WONT REGRET IT PEOPLE!!!
YOU WILL SEE, GO TO MY CHANNEL 🙂
You might even like my videos… Even if i’m just a kid…
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yes many kids now depending on their dads luck on the serps, but i can tell u theres ALWAYS a niche, a juicy keyword, and an oportunity, he says san diego quiropractic or sort, well thats not possible for a regular site
How do you know what is of value? My theory goes back to sales – ie. finding a problem that has not been solved yet….?
My site has a pagerank 3 after started for 1 year while other older (4-5 years older) site only have pagerank 2. But when i looked at their content and mine….i discovered why.
Wonder-full video
Clearly explained how to get your website visibility on google.
Matt Cutts = Number One
Review by C. Jackson for Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications
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As somebody who debugs applications for a living, I found this an outstanding resource to both refresh my memory, give me new tips and tricks, and provide a frame of reference for sharing this knowledge with others.
If you do not already have a symbol server set up for your organization, then you should order this book today for the simple step-by-step instructions for how to do this. This is an absolute requirement for success, yet for some reason seems to be consistently overlooked and considered a “black art” or something that only the largest of organizations has the resources to execute on. John debunks this myth handily, and provides the best resource I know on overcoming this initial hurdle to greater success.
I heartily recommend this book to anyone involved in software development.
Review by a reader for Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications
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I’d like to second the initial review: this is an excellent book. It covers the important topics about debugging, from project level issues (setting symbols and source servers) to code level issues (how to spot handle leaks with WinDBG). The book is engaging and easy to understand. It may even make you like debugging!
Some highlights include the great coverage of Visual studio and WinDBG. I use it regularly to look up a command or a tip-and-trick.
I didn’t give it five stars because some of the topics are too developed. For example, I didn’t need or want the long explanation about writing FxCop rules. I also found the book light on topics that are relevant to debugging such as instrumentation (perf counters and logging).
Overall this is book worth reading if you want to improve your development skills.
Review by Mark W Mitchell for Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications
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I bought this book over a year ago, with about 8 other books, and had ignored it. I picked this off my shelf last week, while on a support call, and took it with me while on a short personal trip.
I learned so much from this little book about the improvements in .Net 2.0 for debugging, and how to use the tools in visual studio – in extremely productive ways, I would recommend you buy this book immediately and use it for the rest of your programming career!
I found the book extremly well written and it had me laughing and reading it out loud to non-computer people for the great humour that John Robbins put within the pages.
I have a problem at work, dealing with the clipboard and the need to have a static thread to use the functions, and on page 119 he cites that exact issue and how he resolved it.
I have not finished the book, – I am almost half way. The part about setting up a Symbol server went a bit beyond what I think I can do within my employers site, and it sounds like a lot of work, however his point is that the mini dumps that a user can send you can be loaded and you can pinpoint the exception with all of the data values, and call stack that was loaded at the time – which allows you to see what the problem was. Potentially saving hundreds of hours!
I also noted that there were a few links in the book pointing to the gotdotnet website,which I know has been reduced to very few remaining links (Microsoft has abandoned) – so some of this book (a few lines at this point) is going out of date due to the reliance on some web links still being there.
I personally find the parts about FxCop and the Code Coverage in VS 2005 as a good piece of instruction on establishing your own code rules – and if you want to have standards enforced – it will help you see how you can improve on your code. If you are avoiding improving your standards, then you can skip that – I would encourage you to learn from it rather than skip it.
If you are working in .Net 2.0 (or higher) as a developer – I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I had kind of ignored it on my shelf, and that will not be the case from now on. It has started to travel with me. I read it every chance I get so I can finish it and benefit from the incredibly practical examples and enjoyment of really great writing, that can spice up the book with real humour that everyone can understand. Outstanding!
Review by SPYRIDON PRANTALOS for Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications
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This is a great debugging book. It is very analytic, detailed and extremely useful for simple developers, as well as for people who are debugging specialists. I am not giving 5 stars for the simple reason that it requires extensive setup in order to follow all the examples. In fact, setting up a VPC with all components necessary for using Source Server took me 2 days. IMHO it would have been great if a CD with a VPC image was available for download to save us from the pain.
Review by Itzhak Kasovitch for Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications
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This is how a book should be written. This book is full of tips and technical advice. It points you to more resources to expand your knowledge. It gives a lot of high quality code that you can use both in production and as an example.
The book starts with chapters about the debugging process and the setup. Then it talks about proactive programming techniques. And the book concludes with guidance and tips for using the Visual Studio debugger and WinDBG, SOS and ADPlus.
The last thing I want to mention is that John Robbins has a worderful blog that you should subscribe to if you are interested in the subject and you can ask him questions about his book. I was always happy with his replies.
Enjoy!
Review by Gizmo for Mike Meyers’ CompTIA Network+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting Networks, Second Edition (Mike Meyers’ Guides)
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This book is very helpful!
I’m not very fit to criticize/applaud this book because I’m not a network guy but I’m trying to be!
That being said…
At a little more than halfway through I have a far better understanding about networks and network technology than I thought I would by this point. Some topics aren’t covered in depth but I wasn’t looking for an all-exhaustive reference book, I was looking for a “comprehensive understanding” book: a book that could tell me something about most things having to do with networking.
I’m really busy with homework but highly recommend this book for anyone but especially for two kinds of people:
-people starting from scratch in learning about networks
-people looking to fill in the gaps unfilled by their previous education(s)
I’m sorry if I’m not a very good reviewer but I’ve tried to elaborate my thoughts… however poorly.
Review by Scott Jernigan for Mike Meyers’ CompTIA Network+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting Networks, Second Edition (Mike Meyers’ Guides)
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The *Mike Meyers’ CompTIA Network+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting Networks* offers students a comprehensive view of every topic needed to become both CompTIA Network+ certified and a great network tech.
The book is a textbook and follows the design dictates of our publisher. Textbooks for students in the *Guide to* series don’t contain answers. Instructors get an Instructor’s Pack that has all the answer keys. That way instructors and students can gauge progress throughout the duration of the course of study.
For the reviewer who laments a lack of answers, tell your teacher to help you grade the end of chapter material that you complete so you can see where you’re at as far as studying for the exam goes. If the instructor does not for some reason have the Instructor’s Pack, have him or her contact a McGraw-Hill rep and get one.
For self-study, readers should not buy this version of the Meyers’ book, but rather buy the trade version. That’s the *All-in-One CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Guide,* 4th edition:
CompTIA Network+ All-in-One Exam Guide, Fourth Edition
Kind regards,
Scott Jernigan
Editor in Chief
Total Seminars
Review by Karl Rhoda for Mike Meyers’ CompTIA Network+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting Networks, Second Edition (Mike Meyers’ Guides)
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No answer key to the end of Chapter tests. I’m taking Network+ at CC and this is the text selected by the instructor. Now I want to do well in my class, but no answer key makes the book useless for helping me retain what I’ve read by doing the end of chapter tests.
Hi,
I like your blog its interesting and helpful to others.
Welcome to McDonalds! How can I help you today? Uhh… Theres a blue screen on the computer in front of me… But…. I’ll have the double cheese burger…. With extra cheese…
STOP : 0x0000007E (0xC0000005,0x00004oD8,0xF7A36548,0xF7A36244)
that show to me.pls help me with problem.
@LRCProductionsUS I probably did, I work on cars too, My dad was a master mechanic so I tinker with mechanics in my spare time. lol
haha, nice video, thank you! it looks like you just replaced your car’s head gasket when you did this too lol…
first time it got me was when i got a theme on windows blinds meant for xp so i install it and did not no
@BetaFlux My Win 98 actually handles my flash really well. I downloaded some software of the place where a bunch of computers go together, and it finally took my flash.
@jebug29 Win 98 is terrible fro usb devices, it can burn them out real easy.
I loooove the blue screen of death. Lol, jk. Really, thee only main time I get the bsod is when I take my flash drive outta my windows 98 when I have somem open.
it happened to me a minute ago but there was nothing written on it
it was just blue then my system did restart but it was the first time that happens but idk what to do.
i hope it doesn’t happen to me again -_-”
@Parrotluver2 You don’t want to format your recovery drive, It is red because it is getting full,
@Parrotluver2 You would have to do some research and find a mobo that will support a guad 4, or buy a bear bones kit, that way it will all be compatible.
The wires to connect to the mobo are built into the case or tower, You will most likely also need a newer power supply to have all the plugs you need.
Beta Question I Have a old Compaq Evo P-4 d51c with X.P 133mhz Ram it’s not worth nothing! the Case is Very Big I was Wondering if you Could Suggest what Kind of Mobo I Could Put in it I Would Like to Make a Very Fast Quad Core is it Possible? I Never Built a P.C Before! Does a Mobo Kit Come with all the Connecting Wires I Would need and for the I/O panel ? thanks
Beta it is my Recovery Drive But it use to be a Short Blue Bar Now it’s a Long Red Bar and says 1.06 GB Free of 11.4 used and if I Click on it it shows a Folder That Says Recovery than SCHJW then I open it it shows a Bunch of numbers/Listed and dated and very small kb
Do I Need to Wipe it and Reformat it ? to fix it thanx
@Parrotluver2 Your D: drive should be about 100mb using about 1/2 or less of that space, it is your recovery partition that is created by windows,
You might have accidentally saved data to that drive, the needed files are hidden on that drive so if you open it you should only see things that you have stored there.
Beta Question on my H.P D: Factory Image System Restore Drive it’s Red and Long it use to Be Blue Like yours is on your E: Drive What Do I Need to Do to Fix it ? Thnx
betaflux i failed to copy the stop error at the beginning when i started to get the BSOD but still my computer keeps freezing (cause that was the problem) But now the blue screen doesn’t come up so i dont know the cause is help how can i find the cause?
@1positivesoul Have you tried my video on Recovery Console?
If that does not help than you will need to reinstall windows.
@BetaFlux Okay,thanks. I just tried it, and nothing it still only goes throught windows screen loading bar, then goes right to the blue screen, and crashes.
I should be clear by memory stick I meant jump drive. I have not altered anything in the machine.
Thanks
@everyoneSalegend No Worries Mate..
@1positivesoul Sounds like the memory you put in might not be the same as the other stick, try leaving one in at a time.
If it will not start in safe mode try VGA mode.
If it will start you can try:
Start, Run, type “sfc /scannow” without quotes and hit Enter
It may ask you for a disk to replace broken or missing files.
After doing this reboot the computer
You could also try to install an updated driver for your video card. and your INF driver for the motherboard.
OK, I have it copied. here it is. Please help thanks again.
***STOP: 0x0000001E (0xc0000005, 0xA008E56D, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
***ADDRESS A008E56D base at A0000000, DateStamp 45ed063d win32l.sys
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete. Contact your system administrator or technical group,
Mine shuts off so fast I can’t read it.
i bought htis used, and put in a memory stick, and it broke.
Mine says physical dump
@25heineken Sounds like it cant find your hard drive, make sure all your cables are plugged in correctly. if you go into your bios (F1, F2 or DEL) you should see it will list your hard drive if it sees it.
hi,when i turn on my latop it says (os not found!!) wat should i do? pls help me..thnkzz
@BetaFlux thank you very much for the answer. you were great help! :)))
Review by Jamie Beth Wachstein for SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Volume 1)
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This book is truly unbelievable. It’s like having an SEO expert showing you and very simple, step-by-step instructions, how to get your website or blog ranked #1 on Google. When I launched my website, I was very frustrated to find that it wasn’t listed anywhere on the search engines.
After about 3 months, I was finally on page 3 of Google but has no traffic. So I was looking for an SEO book and found SEO Made Simple. When I was at the book store, there were a couple of others books on SEO but they were way too technical. The author of this book is an every day guy who cracked the Google code. This book is a MUST HAVE for anyone with a website or blog!
The book is separated into two parts. The first is about on-page optimization. Basically, it tells you what you need to do on your website to achieve #1 rankings. The second part, which focuses on off-page optimization reveals some great techniques for publishing your website across the Internet and generating TONS of in-bound links to your site in less than a week. Truly awesome book!
Review by Gary E. Albers for SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Volume 1)
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I think it’s time that someone gives this book something other than a five star review which, in my opinion, it doesn’t merit. Toward that end, here’s my take:
Judging from the content of the many laudatory reviews, this book’s primary audience is among people who are amateurs or noobies in the field of website design and functionality. If your experience in designing a webpage is limited to a WYSIWYG editor, if you don’t understand XHTML, you’re not sure what tag, element, attribute or “meta” mean, then this book is probably appropriate to your level of knowledge.
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with being inexperienced. Everybody has to start at the beginning. However, if you are an experienced website designer who, hopefully, hand-codes your pages in XHTML and CSS, makes an effort to comply with current standards for the separation of structure and presentation, and are making more than a formal bow to the need for accessibility, then there is likely to be little of interest to you in this book.
To be fair, there are certainly many good pieces of advice here, despite the author using the first 20% of the ~100 pages to toot his own horn. However, there is little information that could not be found by spending a couple of hours searching the internet for SEO topics; i.e., almost all of what the author “reveals” is rather common knowledge. Again, in the interest of fairness, the author readily admits that he is not a code expert. As a result, there are very few useful examples of actual HTML markup code. The snippets that do exist would be old news to a real developer but, occurring without the context of a real document, would be of little use to a novice designer.The glossary at the end of the book, which takes up about 10% of an already suspiciously short volume, is the last place I would turn for a cogent definition of many of the terms he includes; e.g., “Cascading style sheets (CSS) – used to manipulate and easily manage the design of a website.” Hmmm…perhaps that definition could be improved and expanded a bit for the next edition.
As an ex-professional printer (many years ago), I was disappointed with the design and typography of this book. Besides coming across with too much similarity to the “Get Rich Quick with Real Estate Foreclosures” and “Dr. X’s New Wonder Diet” genre, the book is poorly edited (too many typos) and composed in a sans-serif typeface (alright, I admit to being biased against that), making it difficult to read for long lengths of time. Also, many of the screen capture illustrations are so small that I needed a magnifying class to read them. I applaud the quite-readable choice of a large point-size for the body type, but that also helps pad out to about 100 sparse pages what should have probably been nothing more than a pamphlet half that size.
To his credit, the author seems to have adhered to the pre-eminent rule of the medical profession: “First of all, DO NO HARM!” His advice is all good, if not exhaustive, and there is certainly something here for any newcomer to website functionality. He also does a good job of steering the reader away from the “black hat” techniques that may have been effective in the not too distant past. Kudos to him for that. But, in contrast to the many other reviews declaring this book as the be-all and end-all of SEO advice, I beg to differ. There are other books on the subject as good, or better, than this one. Given the short length, the sub-standard physical design and production, the pretty well known nature of most of the advice given, I suggest it is over-priced; a price more like $7.95 would come closer to the real value of this tome.
However, if you are a noobie who is being pressured by some self-proclaimed SEO expert, who is promising to get you on Google’s first page for the mere sum of $695, then buying and reading this book at its current price may very well be a real money-saving bargain! Bottom-line: it’s not a BAD book; it’s just not that GOOD! Caveat emptor!
Review by Suzanne E. Greco for SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Volume 1)
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This is the first SEO book that I’ve read. I found it to be very straight forward and to the point. There’s not much fluff in this book. It gets right to the point and shows you exactly how to implement all their ideas. It was well worth reading and gave me a much deeper understanding of how google rankings are achieved. There are many things in the book that I didn’t get from searching the internet. It’s a very short book but it’s packed with good ideas.
Review by Roderick Armstrong for SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Volume 1)
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I have been assisting clients with web marketing for a number of years now. I bought SEO Made Simple because even as a professional you never stop learning and as I am committed to my continuing education as an SEO professional I was extremely pleased after I read SEO Made Simple. Any SEO pro who wants to learn more as a means of providing additional value to their clients MUST read this book ASAP. It is very well written, concise and to the point. The book can easily be read in one sitting as the author didn’t fill the book with a bunch of unusable information; he gets straight to the point on everything you need to get your sites ranked fast. You get everything you need and nothing you don’t here. The author also wrote the book from a perspective of all learning levels. If you just want to crack the code on how to get sites ranked on the search engines or are a seasoned SEO expert, you will find many points of value in this book.
As soon as you start reading from the very first page, you know you are in for a real treat and are going to come away “smarter” in the SEO businessSEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Volume 1). If you need a competitive advantage on the real SEO secrets and what the search engines are really looking for, it is revealed in these pages. It should be a staple on any SEO person’s library.
I highly recommend it and look forward to reading it again to gain additional insights.
Review by J. Valentin for SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Volume 1)
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Just as the title says, “SEO Made Simple”. This book is a Blue Print on what to do as well as what not to do. Although the book is a thin 100 pages or so, the auther packs in lots of golden nuggets and useful tips helping you dominate search engine positioning. Very well written easy to understand no fluff, no technobabble guide on getting well ranked in the search enginse. Best purchase so far on the subject. I love “SEO Made Simple”. I highly recommend it to anybody wanting to get their site indexed the right way.
Review by for Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)
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New Rider’s slogan “Voices That Matter” is one that I generally take with a large pinch of salt. In Zeldman’s case, that’s true. If Tim Berners-Lee is the father of the internet, Zeldman and the team at the Web Standards Project are the net’s midwives. The W3C wrote the standards (or recommendations as they apologetically and coyly them), whilst Zeldman and his gang set about the hard, political and (until now) thankless task of bullying (browser-beating?) Netscape and Microsoft to conform to the standards that they’d helped set. Having brokered the end of the Browser Wars, they turned their attentions to the WYSIWYG tools like Dreamweaver, GoLive and (ahem) FrontPage, actually advising Macromedia on how to make DMX conform to Web Standards.And now, this time, it’s personal. Zeldman and the WaSP warriors are coming for you.”Though today’s browsers support standards, tens of thousands of professional designers and developers continue to use outdated methods that yoke structure to presentation”.This book is part of the campaign to educate us, the Web Professionals. It’s part polemic, and part tutorial. Polemic because so many of us are yet a-standard (or even anti-standards), and tutorial because there’s so much talk of why standards that a lot of us are saying “We know they’re important. We know it’s evil and wrong to use tables, and we know every time we use a deprecated tag a fairy dies somewhere – but how do we sew the DOM, XHTML, CSS and Accessibility all together?”This book tells you how, and – because Zeldman is a real-life designer, just like us, he isn’t pontificating from an ivory tower. This reader has read enough standards-fascists shouting “Ignore the real world!” and wonders if those authors actually do the stuff they’re frothing about. Zeldman tells us that “My bias [is] toward getting work done under present conditions – a bias I believe most of this book’s readers share”. (page 3). Inevitably, there’s a forest of three-letter acronyms, and a lot of frankly rather dull stuff to get through, but Zeldman is (to this reader) as much a writer as he is Standards Samurai. There’s a lot of jokes in the book. This reader is the first to admit that Accessibility, CSS, XHTML isn’t the most fertile ground for thigh-slappin’ gags, but there’s enough wry smiles and flashes of personality to keep you turning the pages.That’s enough of the tone; what’s the structure? Well, the first half of the book is the polemic. If you aren’t a standards convert, this will make you one. If you’re already a convert, but your boss/ client isn’t, strategically leaving this book on the corner of their desk could result in your professional relationship with that boss suddenly becoming a whole lot easier. Like many polemic computer books, though, there’s the danger of the first half of the book preaching to the choir.The second half of the book is where the meat is. We go step-by-step through hybrid XHTML layouts, DOCTYPEs Standards Mode, Typography and Accessibility, leaning by doing it. This is not theoretical. The only depressing chapter is the one titled, “Box models, bugs and Workarounds”, on how to accommodate the nasty gremlins of today’s browsers. Unlike legacy browser-sniffing that we used to do, however, the Workarounds here are not wasted effort. Standards-compliance is not perfect in today’s technology, but it’s not going away; the WaSP have generated an unstoppable momentum.What’s bad about the book? Very little, really. It was `fast-tracked’ through production, so the occasional page has a slight layout weirdness. Like many recent New Riders books, there’s a typographical prissiness (the numerals `2′ and `7′ in the body of the text are the worst offenders). These are tiny points, from a publishing pedant, that I’ve only really included because the rest of the review is so glowing!Wholeheartedly recommended.
Bruce Lawson,
DMXzone.com
Review by Revelee for Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)
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review {
information: priceless
format: real-world, example-based;
clarity: crystal;
history: eye-opening;
audience: essential reading for ALL web profesionals;
humor: witty and wise as always;
timing: perfect – now is the time for standards and accessibility – zeldman explains why and how;
why: save money, time and do the right thing;
how: tons of techniques and proven tactics with real world examples;
bottom-line: actively using dwws as a tool to move my agency and my clients towards standard compliant practices;
}
Review by Leah Hicks for Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)
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During the prehistoric era of the internet, there was no real guideline for making a website. It was done how one pleased: put a table here and there and viola, you have your layout. But tables were not meant for layout, they were meant for tabular data. Examples such as these are seen in “Designing with Web Standards,” and how they can lead to the detriment of the webmaster.
While “Designing with Web Standards” is not necessarily code-intensive, it provides plenty of real-life situations where web standards are important. It is not a guide to creating your website; rather, it is a guide to improve upon it. Jeffrey Zeldman demonstrates that web standards will, in the long run, save you a lot of trouble.
This book is a good read for those who wish to clean their websites and overall make the website less time-consuming and easier to manage.
Review by Rose Levy for Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)
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I came upon this book via glowing reviews on amazon, citations on websites, and exalted praise from cutting-edge web developers. This was THE book to read if you want to build websites that didn’t rely on spaghetti code and deeply nested tables, I was told.
I was greatly disappointed. While I appreciate the overall message of this book and some of the techniques are helpful, not only is it exasperating in its lack of information, but it actually commits the very sins that it relentlessly cites as the scourge of 99.9% of websites – redundancy, verbosity, and lack of clean, clear structure of what little information it imparts.
-REDUNDANCY AND VERBOSITY GALORE
The book really doesn’t even get started until Chapter 6 on page 153 (and even that is being generous), after mind-numbing repetition in the form of exposition, bulleted lists, and executive summaries about why one should design and build websites using web standards. There’s even a sentence on page 137 that proclaims, “Now let’s stop exulting and get down to work.” Well, guess what? It’s just a tease – and there will be plenty more — because the proselytizing never really stops.
When the author finally comes around to showing examples and their accompanying markup, it is sadly deficient. CSS that works with the markup is not even shown alongside it, although we are promised to be shown in another chapter. I learned very little about how to actually employ the techniques that Zeldman advocates so strenuously.
The meaningless subheads drove me nuts! Here’s a taste: “CSS: The First Bag is Free; The F Word; How Suite it is; Not a Panacea, But Plays One on TV; Inherit the Wind; Miss Behavior to You.” I know this might seem like a petty criticism, and maybe people are used to this style from the Dummies books, but 1. They’re stupid 2. They impart absolutely no meaning, so if the book is used for a reference, they are less than helpful and 3. The subsections are constantly referred to in all of their absurd and useless glory. This constant reference to other sections by Chapter Number, Chapter Name, Subsection Name smacked of gratuitous page lengthening to me. (If you must refer, why not just use page numbers? Takes up about 1/10th of the space (LIKE GOOD WEB CODE), or better yet, use footnotes!)
-CRINGE-MAKING BANTER
Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I don’t get this stuff. I bought a serious, technical book about the new age of coding websites. It cost $35 and at 415 pages, that’s about 8.4 cents per page. I don’t need breaks for mindless digressions about blueberry tofu pie, what title you were thinking of for chapter 6, or for that matter why you want to write in the first person plural. At times, Mr. Zeldman seems to almost flaunt it in our face that he’s wasting our time, e.g., on pg. 214 (after a discussion of how this isn’t a CSS manual, and how he’s introducing us to the “thighs” and “drumsticks” of CSS), he writes: “On the other hand, how many full-blown CSS reference manuals use the word “thighs” three times in one paragraph? You’re right none of them do. Your money was well spent on this book.”
And when he does actually explain something, it’s like being hit over the head with a jackhammer. It took more than half of page 159 to explain this XHTML rule: “write all tags in lowercase”.
-BAD TEACHING
The book is also sprinkled with pointless putdowns like “none of this is rocket science” (pg. 164), but the most egregious teaching technique occurs on page 196, when, mind you, very little actual teaching has even taken place. The author gives an example of markup from the Microsoft homepage (eek!) of what he calls “toilet debris” code and then goes on to say:
“Because redundancy is as bad in books as it is in code, we’ll avoid explaining what’s wrong with this markup. If you don’t know by now, one of us hasn’t done our job.”
Should the phrase “we’ll avoid explaining” ever be part an educational text? With all due respect Mr.Zeldman, I think it’s you who didn’t do your job.
Review by Bryan Winter for Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)
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First of all, this is an excellent book. It is well thought out, well written and provides lots of great instruction and examples. Zeldman does a wonderful job making his case for Web standards and the evolution of the WWW. But that is also the biggest problem with this book. Zeldman makes his case – and it is a great one. I’m convinced. But then he makes it again. And again. AND AGAIN. We’re fully 150 pages into the book before we actually start learing HOW to develop with standards. Now, I understand that a case needs to be made. I’m one of those “old school” designers that has been in this biz for years and years now. I’m a master of all those HTML tricks that are now taboo in StandardsLand. He was preaching right to me and I for one needed to be preached at. My methods are out of date, my skills need to be honed. No problem, happy to convert. I’m sold. So cut to the chase! Zeldman’s passion is clear and his wit is sharp. It really is an excellent read. But I also think he doesn’t trust his reader enough to understand his points quickly enough. The initial 150 pages could probably be boiled down to 50 or 75 with the same result, leaving more room for instruction and how-to. Still, highly recommended!
A great article indeed and a very detailed, realistic and superb analysis, of this issue,
very nice write up, Thanks.
It’s great to see good information being shared.
Review by Meryl K. Evans for Designing Websites for Every Audience
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Many people learn by example. When reading documentation explaining the features of functionality, it doesn’t always make sense until seeing it in action. For instance, in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) font type is explained as: {
font-family:
}That isn’t going to make much sense to many of you even if you know CSS. What if I gave you an example of:{
font-family: verdana, arial, georgia, sans-serif;
}Obviously, the is represented by the font names separated by commas with the first font taking priority. If the user’s computer doesn’t have verdana, then it tries arial and so on until it finds a font loaded on the user’s computer.Designing Websites for Every Audience starts with a chapter on usability with a focus on understanding users and the principles of usability. That’s the only lecture of the book and the rest is case studies.The book has 25 case studies sorted by user goals, which include learners, shoppers, connection-seekers, transactors, business browsers, and fun-seekers. Each case study covers the old site and the transition to the new design. Essentially, a before and after, which is popular these days with interior design TV programs.The case study pages are easy to scan. Every one has the company information, site information, users with their goals and tasks, goals of the redesign, and pictures. Benum uses a variety of Web sites for the case studies and discusses the problems with the old design. Then, she analyzes the new design explaining the common traps that have been disposed of and the action taken to improve the user experience.The book is beautifully colored including color screenshots of the designs. This is a good and a bad thing. Some of the side notes have a color background with black font making it hard to read, but this is the only negative thing in the book after all it impacts the usability of reading the book.We have plenty of excellent books on how to improve the user experience when designing Web pages, but there are few that guide you through actual examples. Any Web designer who learns by example will want this one on the desk for referencing when working on a redesign.
Review by richardpinneau.com for Designing Websites for Every Audience
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First of all let it be said that this clearly IS an attractive, creatively designed book. Judging from the reviews (below) it has a lot of appeal for professional designers.
Keep in mind that it is NOT primarily a technology how-to book. And yet there ARE some helpful clues to get a designer-new-to-web thinking about issues of how to implement pleasing, effective web sites: what is “Flash”? a “blog”? CSS? (cascading style sheets) …there are “browser compatibility” issues?
But once you’ve been alerted to some of these technology quandries you’ll quickly need to turn to further education elsewhere. Fortunately, Benun has a nice selection of sites, forums, and publications listed at the back for your reference.
If you are already well-versed in the technologies of the web, you may find that you can learn most of what Benun offers through a cursory scanning at the library. Certainly the sites (25 of them) discussed here are NOT analyzed “in depth” — the book is only 144pp after all. Offering a new way to think about the TYPE of audience(s) for which a site is designed is a nice contribution on Benun’s part (see elaboration in others’ reviews).
If you are just beginning your design enterprise you may be upset to have laid out this much money for just a few starting ideas. For economy’s sake you may want to browse a wide selection (and it is wide) at a library or book shop.
Review by Tortorella Design for Designing Websites for Every Audience
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I consider myself a print designer. But, over the past couple of years, website design has grown to account for almost 50% of my business’ revenue. So, I guess it may be time to change the way I see myself. During that transition, I learned that web work demands a different approach. Sure, print and web design share a lot of stuff. Typography, images, concept and layout among other things. The difference lies in how people use it. Print tends to be static. As such, folks often take their time mulling over the material. The web is a load more dynamic. People want and expect ease-of-use, instant information, intuitive navigation and aesthetics with functionality.If you’re like me, you’ve found that many of the rules you were taught in art school don’t all together apply to the web. That’s where Ilise Benun’s new book, Designing Websites://For Every Audience comes in real handy. This little tome is jam-packed with great info about usability, form, function and resources. It’s found a comfy home on the table next to my Mac. You’ve all seen design books out there that promise the world, but donÃ*t teach you anything you can use in real life. You’ve likely shelled out your fair of moolah only to be disappointed. Designing Websites://For Every Audience delivers the goods and is worth every penny (or currency du jour).Ilise starts off by addressing usability à what it is and why it’s important. The nice thing is her approach. It’s not a boring dictate of rules, but more of a discussion with comments from real-world designers and usability experts. The pages that follow contain a wealth of great information about what works and what doesn’t along with all the whys. She writes about research and audience profiling, understanding memory, audience demographics and more. Perhaps the biggest point she makes is that the audience isn’t just faceless “users,” theyÃ*re people. They’re your mother, father, siblings, neighbors and co-workers. We need to see the audience as such and not simply nebulous “clicks” and stats on our site logs.Beyond that, she distills web audiences down into six groups: learners; shoppers; connection seekers; transactors; business browsers and fun seekers. I found this very valuable in understanding what folks want and need during their visits to sites.The chapters begin with a typical audience profile that features their demographic, web habits, preferences and pet peeves. When you get into a site design, it can be easy to stray from the path if you’re not careful. These profiles are a great way to keep you on the straight and narrow. They also serve as a good start when developing a typical audience profile for your web projects.Each audience group section contains case studies that go into great detail about the hows and whys of the design. For instance, the “Learners” section covers a wide span of topics: The Organization; The Site; The Users and Their Goals; Goals of the Redesign; Navigation and Typography. The words come straight from the horses’ mouths – the client, the designer/developer and the audience. No guessing games here. The information is presented in a clear, digestible manner from the people in-the-know.Ilise sums up with featured site URLs and a page of additional resources that include web sites, books, organizations, forums and blogs, magazines and a list of the design and consulting firms featured within the book. All in all, a very thorough job.This oneÃ*s a mandatory addition to any web designerÃ*s library. Good beat. Easy to dance to. I give it a 9 out 10.Neil Tortorella
Tortorella Design
Review by Robert W. Bly for Designing Websites for Every Audience
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This is a solid book on Web site design and online marketing, but of course there are many solid books on these topics already published. What distinguishes Ilise’s book is its emphasis on the visual. Oversize pages and four-color printing on glossy stock allow you to really see what the Web sites she is analyzing look like much better than a conventional black and white book. Each site review presents the inside story on the strategy of the site plus tips you can glean from the sites and apply to your own Web work. A+.
Review by Harold McFarland for Designing Websites for Every Audience
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There are a lot of books on the market today that teach website design. Very few teach the importance of creating a web site that is friendly and usable so the visitor has a positive experience and wants to come back. “Designing Websites for Every Audience” falls into that second category. It does not teach HTML or CSS or anything like that but what it does teach is much more important – how to create a website that people can use and want to return to time after time. The beginning of the book covers pretty typical usability information, but starting with Chapter 2 the book separates itself from the crowd. At this point Ilise Benum starts several chapters that not only discuss web site design but also tailors that discussion to specific types of users. A website designed for learners should be different from one designed for shoppers, or one designed for transactors, or one designed for business browsers. Ilise Benum goes through these and other user types as she discusses how websites should be designed just for them. Using specific examples from existing websites, she discusses usability factors before and after changing them. Complete with multiple detailed illustrations and analysis it is a highly recommended book.
Review by Adrienne Rice Adams for Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites
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“Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites” is the first book on web design to focus on integrating marketing, customer service, accessibility, and web standards into the design process. It’s an accessible, clear, and up-to-date resource on best practices for modern business- and service-oriented websites.
Kevin Potts begins the book by pointing out that the internet is now an essential medium for businesses of all shapes and sizes; at the same time, customers are more sophisticated than in the early days of the internet, and have little patience for poorly designed websites. In order for a company to present an effective presence on the web, it “must deliver beyond customer expectations; better content, sharper design, smarter architecture, and more proactive communication and interaction are all components of websites that produce exceptional results for corporations.”
In the first chapter, the author begins by outlining what a company’s website should be doing:
* Marketing, selling products, & promoting services
* Providing customer support & company information
* Creating branding & market awareness
He then covers planning, researching, and selling the design (or redesign) within the company, then moves on to a brief overview of platforms and technologies.
The rest of the book proceeds to show the designer how to create an effective and compelling site for his or her client. He covers content creation, accessibility, architecture & navigation; essential sections of a company website such as the Homepage, About page, Products, and Support pages; error pages, print-friendly pages, legal considerations, and SEO; email marketing, RSS, and advertising campaigns and metrics.
This book is an amazing collection of diverse information presented in a clear and concise fashion. It’s not intended as an in-depth treatment of any of the subjects he covers–rather it’s an invaluable checklist of essential tools and considerations for designing a top-notch company website.
“Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites” has become a valuable addition to my reference library, and it is one that I know I will reach for first when I am planning a new or redesigned business or service website.
Review by Stephen E. Adams for Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites
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“Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites,” by Kevin Potts,was first brought to my attention by my wife, Adrienne, a website designer whose business, Cloud Islands, develops business identity plans for internet marketing.
She recommended it to me as an extraordinarily useful text. I’ve found it particularly readable, including the chapters on platforms, content management, standards-based development, and other topics which normally are either over my head or simply difficult to read.
Potts’ chapters on content and SEO are cogent, provide excellent examples, and are as useful as any I’ve ever read. The book is only several months old, so he is even using illustrations from Google Analytics new web configurations.
It’s published by […], which is a publishing house run by and for web designers.
I don’t often recommend books for other people’s professional libraries, but this one is proving very useful to me.
Review by Nate Klaiber for Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites
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Kevin Potts has done an incredible job of presenting the logical steps to make your site usable, accessible, and marketable. The web industry is a noisy one. Everyone has a website, and with the help of some text editors, anyone can theoretically create a website. There is, however, a big difference between simply creating a website and creating a usable website. I found the key to reading this book is to let yourself step outside of your projects. Take a look from the outside in and truly think about how to create value. Too many times we get attached to our projects and can become very narrow minded. The journey to creating a successful website isn’t always an easy one. There are many decisions that need to be made before designs are created or markup is crafted. This book starts us at the beginning of that journey, and walks us through some necessary steps to creating a successful website that meets our business goals as well as connects and interacts with those around us.
The decision making process
The beauty of the web is that things can constantly shift and change. We are not working within a static environment. We have the ability to change on the fly and monitor and respond to our needs. The first 4 chapters set the foundation for creating a marketable site. Addressing your goals, visions, and needs, and setting up the proper building blocks to give you the solid foundation you need. These things include redesigning your site and your objectives, planning your platform and content management, gathering up your content, addressing accessibility issues to give your site maximum visibility, and setting up your site architecture and navigation. Within these items you find a way to tell your story. Chances are there are many other’s out there with similar stories, so you need to take the time to plan properly.
Craft your words wisely. Understand the technology and the constraints. Ultimately, you need to understand your target audience and how they use the web. Without users, your beautifully designed site will be nothing more than decoration. Take the time to plan your architecture and navigation to match your user’s mental models. You need to first realize that, in most cases, you are not your target audience. Step back and empathize with your users and their browsing habits. These chapters give you all of the little details you need to build a solid foundation. You now understand your goals, you have designed to the needs of your users, and you are aware of the proper tools to use (and to avoid) to let your story be heard.
It’s all about the content
Now that we have the foundation, the next 6 chapters will walk use through some of the more common pieces of content found within an array of different websites. Pieces of content such as the homepage, an about us section, products and services – whichever it is that you happen to offer, harnessing the words that others have said about you, engaging your users through blogging features, and ultimately supporting your story and communicating with your audience. These pieces of content need to be structured wisely. No one piece should exist without the others. When done well, you will find ways to inter-weave your content between each of the different sections. Your homepage is a prime example of a page that has valuable real-estate and can be used to direct your visitors when you want them to go. The goal here is to not create your content in small islands, but to craft your content in a way that encourages scanability, readability, and interaction from your users.
Now we have build a solid foundation, and added our content on top of that foundation. Things are starting to fill out nicely and you are becoming proud of the the work you have accomplished. Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves, though. While things may look great, you still need to find a way to make your story known to others. That is, after all, the goal of this book, to market your website. Let’s now look at some ways to get in the game.
Shout it to the hills
You have a solid foundation. You have a well crafted architecture and quality content. Now the time has come to release your site into the wild. The next 5 chapters walk through some steps you can take to become more visible. The first of these steps involve planning your server to respond to an array of different request from your users such as proper redirects, searching both outside and within your website, gracefully handling errors and respectfully guiding the users, and understanding the different contexts users may be accessing your content (online, print, devices, etc). Next up you want to cover your bases with the legalese. This can be useful in many cases to protect your business, your content, and your users. Having this in place comforts both you, the owner of the website, and the user visiting your website.
The next section compresses what could have taken an entire book. This is the process of SEO: optimizing your architecture, your content, and your requests to give you maximum visibility. This chapter gives you some very useful tips for understanding how search engines find your content, and how you can let them freely crawl your newly built website or a re-worked existing website. Careful considerations need to be taken in both instances. This leads into the last 2 chapters that discuss outbound marketing and online marketing. All of these come under the umbrella of telling your story inside of a very crowded Internet. These chapters give way to very powerful techniques to getting into the community and interacting within it. It is the art of building relationships with those around you – both websites and users.
Now what?
Building a successful website takes time. You need to allow time nurture your website and watch it grow. As we recognized in the beginning, the beauty of the web is that we can constantly shift and change to fit our needs and goals. While this book covers a broad array of topics, it covers them in a very concise and readable manner. Whether you are a site owner with little understanding of how the web works, or you are a seasoned web developer trying to find the next steps, this book will be able to point you in the right direction.
Kevin shows the very value of connecting with those around you, by providing a very useful appendix of useful resources such as books, websites, and articles that expand on each of the topics found within the book. If you do any marketing on the web, then this book will prove to be an extremely valuable resource both now and in the future.
Review by Ana Nunes for Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites
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very useful, very simple, very objective. If you are a web designer that had never draw a e-commerce site you should read it!
Review by M. McDonald for Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites
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When I purchased this book, I thought I was getting a step-by-step guide for beginners who build websites. Unfortunately, it turns out this book is for the experienced web designer whose looking for more ideas. I found a better book for beginners through the “Dummies” series. Oh yeah, if you can afford it, hire someone to build your website!
@jmwwd LOL! Yes, Infoseek!! OMG, I would create a doorway page and be ranked #1 in 2 days. Wow, those days are long gone. You took me down memory lane with that one!
A blog would likely be a good choice, and platforms like WordPress and Community Server — which are both free and are widely supported — allow you to easily add binary and text content for others to download. Most blog frameworks are highly customizable and can be skinned to match the look-and-feel of your website.
There are literally hundreds of platforms to choose from. Which you pick will ultimately depend on your technical ability, the features you require, and what type of server you’ll be hosting on.
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Ah the good ole days. I used to beat that Infoseek mule silly and I won’t be messing with you. That thing talked.
Okey, i see:)
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What people need to do is to get off the google trap and start advertising their website on radio and tv. Google is unfair to the smallest sites. And what’s going to happen is what happened to ebay. All the major players stayed in, and many of the average Joe’s had to leave. And now ebay is just another scam site that serious vendors are staying out. Specially the ones from China.
very nice video lisa thanks for sharing with us yes you are correct .
One thing that people should know is that automated content is getter better and better impersonating genuine content especially when it can be copied from genuine content. The methods SE needs to tackle that problem will more and more affect people writing their content.
seo
noob ^^
I can get anybody ranked on the first page on the top. PM me if you are interested.
Thanks, you are ZZZZZ B E S T !
Just ask Intelligent positioning because they are the best at what they do my company worked with them and they still worked really well
Gotta love Lisa speaks the truth shame there is not a lot of ppl on here just talk BS
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Anthony
Portadown Ireland
good point
Really like your work, just come across it.
I’ve heard mention of the importance of a robot.txt file in root folders having some significance in SEO. Do you have an opinion?
You imply there’s less relevance to keyword density, do you think that may have some relation to the age of a particular site?
Hope you don’t mind my direct questioning 🙂 I’m relatively new to SEO with clients and projects, but I’m a confident reader and writer of xhtml,CSS and JS. All the best.
SEO !!!!!!!
Thank you for your info, I think that all you need to do, is just buld a good website, and put information that people are looking for, and don’t worry about all this SEO & Metatags.
My site, has only been going for a few months and I have had over several hundred views as counted on my counter.
And the site is slowy starting to work for me.
Never pay much too to advertise, as it is a ripp off by the big players out there.
I loved the ideas of “not-liking-that-much” of the current seo’s concept which manipulate the Meta tags and keywords in becoming more popular on search engine. Thank you, Lisa. It’s worth my time just to sign in and comment on this video.
I’m launching 2 sites soon(not up yet, as of this comment.Under construction.)
But seo by itself isn’t all about meta tags. its about relevant content,keywords,networking web 2.0 to the fullest, and creating backlinks(to create popularity.)
It’s “all of this” and then some.
I take a Bruce lee approach to it. It’s like water, it “must” be adapted.
Use whatever works,discard what doesn’t.
And content will always be king.
My site coming August 20, 2010!
peace!
hey SIS you really laid this out .. really good job .. Keep it up and stay focus
You just said engines ignore metatags for backlinks, which is obviously true – that’s the whole idea of google, AND engines ignore backlinks now too….WTF? Google doesn’t look for content quality; of course it looks for back links, no matter how you get them…
wow i found you on youtube. i read an article of yours like 4 years ago that helped my adsense earnings. great video. I subbed
You are so cute.
i have a question that needs to answered(PLZ help) .i made a click bank account and i started to promote a link.i made a video with the link i am trying to promote.now most people say that on clickbank you work for one day and money starts to flow “in”.now i don’t know how to get my link on the search engines.i don’t have a website nor a blog or much of any type of internet influence.i am underage thought i understood how click bank works but now i am quickly becoming confused.
I think what really matters in the Local Business field , is that you have a lot of traffic going to the site and maybe worry about ranking later . Focus on the costumer. the rest will follow. Key words aren’t really the capital in what I do as long as I flow traffic to the costumers site . Thanks Good Video !
Hi Lisa, I’m trying to get into digital marketing and need to take a course in SEO and SEM. I’m worried it may involve too much IT I’m not savvy in the field. I know enough to build and design websites. I’m hoping to earn a qualification with would get me into a digital marketing role. Is SEO too technical for beginners?
thanks
Review by J. Rose for Jumping Into Web Design >Head> First: Your Guide To Designing and Building Your First Website
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and putting the things I learned into practice. It really helped me to understand exactly what I needed to do in order to start up my website successfully. Things are humming along nicely now. I definitely could not have accomplished this much without the help of “Jumping Into Web Design >Head> First: Your Guide To Designing and Building Your First Website.”
Review by Ms. J. Butler for Jumping Into Web Design >Head> First: Your Guide To Designing and Building Your First Website
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Its been something I have wanted to learn for ages, and after bying over 5 different books on web design I have found Jumping Into Web Design to be the best one. The main problem I found was that other books were too complicated and as am not that computer literate I wanted something simple and easy to understand. Within a few weeks I have my very own basic website.
Review by PMM for Jumping Into Web Design >Head> First: Your Guide To Designing and Building Your First Website
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This text is a very useful guide for those wishing to gain fundamental knowledge about web design. Starting with the basics this guide helps build a foundation for one to start designing websites. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in learning how to create their own website. A step-by-step approach is used and in an organized manner which makes it possible for anyone to use this guide and learn effectively.
Review by Michael J. Schuhler for Jumping Into Web Design >Head> First: Your Guide To Designing and Building Your First Website
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If you are looking to do some web designing, look no further! I purchased this book along with other similar ones, and Id have to say this was the most informative. Anything you need to know about starting out is here. It is well written and easily understood. This book is a deal compared to the texts used by universities and tech schools that teach the same material at triple the price!
Review by TexasAggie for The Web Designer’s Idea Book Volume 2: The Latest Themes, Trends and Styles in Website Design (Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Latest Themes, Trends & Styles in Website Design)
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First, if you don’t have the first one, you’re missing out. They fit together perfectly… hopefully the start of a long series!
The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design
Like the first volume, this is full of carefully picked examples of the best in modern web design. It’s organized into very clever topics making it the perfect reference book. It’s loaded with screenshots, screenshots, and more screenshots… just as before, but all new, and more recent.
In this version, the screenshots are even larger and easier to pick up on detail and text. They’ve also included “Developer Notes” which I think are pretty insightful and in context.
If you are involved in web design in any way (even if you’re hiring other people to do it), this book will be super handy. The two editions are the same size and style… they’re intended to be on the bookshelf together. With the two combined, there must be a thousand organized designs to look through. The amount of work that went into collecting such quality work without “filler” junk is astounding.
I’m really impressed… if you can’t tell!
On the negative side: I’d personally prefer these came in large hardback coffee-table books. While maybe not as handy, it certainly would be great to have around the agency. Maybe after the 3rd edition, they should release a combined volume!
Review by m burwell for The Web Designer’s Idea Book Volume 2: The Latest Themes, Trends and Styles in Website Design (Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Latest Themes, Trends & Styles in Website Design)
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This the second of two comprehensive, up to date books. Great for the talented wanna-be web designer or already-is web designer but needs inspiration to get to the next level and see patterns in beautiful web design. Organization of this book is beautifully laid out and easy to reference. The author really knows good web design. The pictures are rich with color. Absolutely love the spot varnish on the cover.
Anyone who wants to know where design is going should buy this book. I have ordered several for my friends who are thinking of getting into this field or already are…!
Review by Jason Beaird for The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design
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As a web design author, I often get asked what books I recommend. This of course depends on who is asking and what they want to learn, but one book I often pass along is Curt Cloninger’s original* Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground from 2001. The specific design examples are quite outdated now, but to me, that book was a pivotal source of inspiration at a time when everything online seemed to be either boringly corporate or awkwardly amateur. Cloninger helped me to see the web differently; I learned to creatively tag design trends and techniques so that I could mentally catalog them for my own use.
This process of mentally classifying design inspiration has become a critical part of my growth as a designer as well as my ability to explain web design to the non-designer. In The Web Designer’s Idea Book, Patrick McNeil takes the task of cataloging current trends and styles to a meticulous new level. Within the book’s 256 pages, McNeil has sorted over 700 screenshots of stellar site design by color, design style, type, theme, element and structure. Within these 6 chapters, he has defined a total of 75 individual design categories. Some examples of these categories include: Blogs, E-Commerce, Minimalist, Wood, Pink & Blue, Muted, Rays, Gradients, Tabs and Massive Footers. Then, within each of these seemingly exclusive categories there are a few paragraphs explaining when, how, and why it should be used along with an average of 8 or 9 example screenshots.
Obviously, reading this book will not teach you to be a great website designer. What it will do is expand your design vocabulary and train you to break down your favorite sources of design inspiration into bite-sized chunks that you can use in your own work. I spent a good portion of the cold, rainy weekend reading through the text in each category and pouring over the pages of screenshots. I saw quite a few familiar examples of good design, but was amazed by quantity of inspirational sites that I had never heard of. If I had one complaint about the book it would be that I wish all of the screenshots were full-size, or perhaps if they couldn’t be, that there was an archive of the full-size screenshots posted somewhere on the web. Regardless, I’m sure the book will be a huge source of inspiration for me for years to come. Then, when it is too old to serve as inspiration, it will most certainly be an excellent resource for web design history.
* As I was writing this review, I discovered that Curt Cloninger just released a sequel to this book: Fresher Styles for Web Designers: More Eye Candy from the Underground You can be sure that I’ll be reviewing this book as well in the near future.
Review by Keith Donegan for The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design
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This book does just one thing, it showcases beautifully made websites and the author does this extremely well. The Web Designer’s Idea Book is a must have for any web designer/graphic designer out there to have real world examples of good design on hand.
Review by TexasAggie for The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design
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This book has a huge selection of design style examples, all organized in a very intelligent way. The print quality is very good. As a reference book, this is a must have for any web designer looking for some inspiration.
Review by Brian Martin for The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design
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This book is pretty much what you think it is, about 200 pages of site thumbnails. Interspersed throughout are write-ups on the category that is being presented and a little intro by the author.
The actual sites themselves are pretty good. I wasn’t blown away by them, but was impressed and inspired. I keep a folder of bookmarks of sites that I think look good, categorized by “theme”. This is a nice little handheld thing to quickly scan through to get some quick ideas or some quick inspiration.
I do wish some of the thumbnails would have been bigger, the pages a little larger, or the book itself a little taller. Some of the pages are stuffed with thumbnails and it can be a little difficult to discern what that header really looks like, or what that button really says.
Also, some of the themes could have used a couple more sites. Some categories like blogs are literally 2 pages. If you’re gonna have a whole category I’m sure you can find a few more pages of nice sites to fill.
With all that being said this is a good book for 15 bucks. Especially if you are a web designer of any sort, this is a great resource to just have and flip through right before a new project.
Review by Brian M. White for The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design
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The main problem on the book is needing to print the website photos at 300 dpi. The website shots are maybe 2″ inch wide.. not very helpful to see details.
Review by Thomas C. O’Malley for Web Marketing For Dummies
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Jan Zimmerman’s Web Marketing For Dummies gives you an excellent overview or summary of internet marketing tactics and strategies. She clearly helps you determine the purpose of your website and how to drive traffic to your website or landing page. She covers many topics from search engine optimization to blogging.
This book helps anyone who is starting online marketing and it provides an excellent checklist for experienced webmarketers. In fact, her Web Marketing Methods Checklist in chapter 2 is worth the purchase price of the book alone.
When you want to “drill deeper” on any particular online marketing strategy, you will then have to explore other online marketing resources and information. For example, Peter Kent’s Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing For Dummies provides thorough information about pay per click advertising, including Google Adwords.
In short, I highly recommend Web Marketing for Dummies for both new and experienced internet marketers.
Review by Lloyd Metcalf for Web Marketing For Dummies
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As a small tackle shop owner, and not a marketing Guru, I found this (as well as many of the Dummies books) to be worth every penny a hundred times over.
Because of this book, our web site and plan got an overhaul that WORKED. Straight forward advice, links and dos and don’t about getting your website out there, useable, web friendly, and real world ideas on how to bring qualified traffic to your site.
I would suggest this before you dump money into adwords, or any other strategy you find online at random.
We found connections inside to usability studies, digital customer service tips, real working costs of aquiring new customers, guerrilla marketing techniques.
Simply put, if you have a website, or are getting one, you need this book. I will be buying an updated copy with every new release to keep on the cutting edge of what REALLY works in the digital world.
Review by Jeremy J. Baker for Web Marketing For Dummies
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This books is a good primer on Web Marketing, but it does not go into detail(as is the case with most Dummies books). I already knew most of the material in this book.
If you are new to web marketing, this is probably a good book to get you started. If are not a novice, you will probably not learn anything new.
All of the material in this book can be found on the web for free, but it is nice to have a bunch of nice introductory marketing information in a book.
Review by Paige Petersen for Web Marketing For Dummies
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Web Marketing for Dummies is so clearly written that even a “dummie” can learn how to market a product or service on the internet. This book covers everything from building a web marketing plan and establishing a strong web presence, to promoting a product with e-mail marketing, search engine optimization, and other social networking tools. With this marketing guidebook you can also learn how to expand your visibility and measure your marketing success. The amount of money spent on this book will exponentially increase your return on investment. This book will help you “translate your marketing skills to the online world.”
The author of Web Marketing for Dummies was trying to give all the tools necessary to succeed when creating or improving an online presence and marketing a product or service on your website. They tell the reader in the introduction to “keep a picture of your customers or clients in mind as you read this book,” then later explains that in order to make the right decisions, consider the customers’ question, “what’s in it for me?” I thought that question was essential to note. It is important to keep in mind your customer when trying to develop any kind of web marketing strategy. This book is organized into eight separate categories to help achieve that goal.
1. Prepare your plan: set goals, define your market, know why people buy, and craft an online marketing plan
2. Draw them in: learn what makes an effective online storefront and what your site must offer to encourage shoppers
3. Direct mail (21st century style): use e-mail marketing effectively and spread the word via e-newsletters
4. Improve search engine rankings: optimize your site and search terms with best practices and online tools
5. Be a smart shopper: develop a pay-per-click and banner ad strategy that ensures you get your money’s worth
6. Keep it legal: safeguard copyrights, link legally, and use disclaimers, terms of use, and privacy policies
7. Tease them with technology: entice customers with video, blogs, webinars, podcasts, or widgets on your site
8. Analyze: track site activity with web analytics, interpret sales statistics, and determine where problems originate
I really liked “The Part of Tens” that follows these eight main categories. This section of the book describes ten free ways to market your website, the ten most common mistakes of web marketing, and ten tips for tired sites. If you already have an online presence and some sort of marketing plan in place or in mind, these are probably the most crucial chapters to focus on. I found that this section was the most helpful and easiest to apply.
The Pros for this book greatly out-weigh the Cons. Web marketing for Dummies is well organized and easy to read. It is definitely written for people without background knowledge of internet tools or technology. There is a web marketing glossary of need-to-know terms as well as useful market research sites that can help research your target market online. Icons are used throughout the book to indicate when something is important to remember, when there is a helpful tip or a warning, real world example, technical skill that may require additional help, and who to call for assistance. These icons make the book easier to scan and reference in the future. Throughout the book there are also numerous lists of websites to look at. There are websites listed for sample web provider directories, social networks, sources for automated content updates, international search engines, classified ad sites, and many more. Inside the front cover of this book there is also a $25 coupon for Google AdWords to get you started advertising your website. After that there is a cheat sheet that lists the important points of the book. It is broken down into website secrets for marketing success, what every successful website must do, the search engines that matter, ways to attract repeat visits, useful marketing research sites, and a glossary of terms. This was a huge pro for me because I could refer back to the important topics to remember.
There are a few cons I noted while reading this book. There are a few times when the reader is instructed to have “their web developer” add a specific feature to their website; however if a small business or single entrepreneur is trying to perform these tasks there are no instructions. It is also implied that it would be too difficult to write into the HTML what is suggested. There is also a lot of information that pertains to marketing for an online store. I personally am working on a web marketing strategy for a website that doesn’t require any purchasing and therefore skipped those chapters.
Overall this book is essential for web marketing. I would definitely recommend it for anyone that is looking to learn more about web marketing or start a marketing campaign on the internet. Web marketing for Dummies can be used to spread your marketing message to businesses and consumers while establishing a strong web presence.
Review by E. Calamusa for Web Marketing For Dummies
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This book is a must have for anyone who is just beginning or wants to learn some new tricks. It is so hard to get to the top and even harder to stay there. With these tools at your disposal you will be able to overcome most of the difficulties associated with web marketing.
Good luck all!!
Liz Calamusa
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Vanessa is great. Stop hating on the girl.
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Matt does state that the MayDay update was an attempt to get better quality sites ranked higher for long tail keywords. I know that IM gurus, lazy webmasters, scrapers and auto bloggers tend to target long tail keywords. Its easier to get high rankings because of lower competition than popular keywords. However Google and real site visitors don’t want to see that poorly assembled duplicate content. Or worse still spun content that doesn’t make grammtical sense. Be real, write real.
Well worth watching for any webmaster and SEO/SEM person. It gives good insights into how Google’s algorithm looks and ranks our sites in 2010.
Vanessa Fox is a quite a little pepper!
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@Darkdude38 who has money can have anything else.
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Review by Tommy Olsson for The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
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I’m not a graphic designer, I’m a techie. This book is a good introduction to graphic design for the web that even I can understand.
Jason Beaird takes us through the design process in a number of steps: layout, colour, texture, typography and images. He shares his wealth of in-depth knowledge in a way that makes it accessible even to those of us who do not have a university degree in design. He doesn’t dumb it down, he just explains things very well using an easygoing literary style sprinkled with good-natured humour.
By itself this book will not teach you good web design. It doesn’t go into any technical details and it (naturally) focuses on the visual part and aesthetics. Things like semantics and accessibility are subordinate and some of the practices he suggests are less than ideal from those points of view.
There are even some fairly serious errors in the code samples, but those are most likely introduced by the editor rather than the author.
If you know your way around (X)HTML and CSS, but struggle with making your sites more visually attractive, this book is a very good resource. It won’t automagically make you a top-notch designer, but it will teach you the foundations and – most importantly – explain WHY things are the way they are.
If you are a web design beginner the book is a good resource for the graphic design part, but don’t pay too much attention to the technical parts.
Review by TheOriginalH for The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
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Having “stumbled” into web design almost ten years ago, with no real visual design background to speak of, I have over the course of time picked up principals. This was no easy task, and meant trawling countless websites and articles, being intimidated and awed by the breadth of knowledge and theory that is required to even suggest that you have an idea of what visual design is all about. Some of the articles I read required obscene amounts of concentration and application to the task at hand, as well as some difficult and surprising mental leaps.
A couple of years ago, “The Zen of CSS design” went some way to solidifying some of the pricipals I had learned, and helped guide me in new directions, yet still at times was a little inaccessible and while it is a great reference for themed ideas and principles, this new book has frankly blown me away…and I really wish it had been written a long time ago!
I possess several SitePoint books, but only two others have I read cover to cover in almost one sitting, and then revisited; Kevin Yanks’s PHP book and Stuart Langridges Java/ECMA script and DOM book. Not only was the content of these books superb, but the writing style was infectious and consequently the ideas were absorbed quickly. The same is most definitely true of this publication.
Targetted largely at the coding/programming end of the market, it essentially provides the reader with a firm grounding in the ideas, theory and some history of visual design, breaking it down into sensible chunks and providing just the right level of information to leave you not only with a solid base, but thirsting for further knowledge.
This publication could have saved me quite literally weeks and months of stumbling research had I discovered it years ago, and even now is a brilliant refresher for those of us unfortunate enough to have pursued a “proper” degree ;).
For budding and established web designers, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Review by James Holmes for The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
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This is perhaps one of the best books I’ve read in a long time, mostly because it’s targeted specifically to folks like myself: those who are technically sound but graphically impaired. My solid skills behind a camera translate not at all to good site design and layout, so I was really excited to look through this book when I first heard about it.
Beaird has written a very concise, gloriously illustrated work that does a tremendous job of covering everything from layout/composition to textures and color. Throughout the book Beaird uses real-world examples of sites that illustrate the particular point he’s working on. Sitepoint’s willingness to spring for full-color printing helps nail down Beaird’s content.
The book clearly discusses layout fundamentals like balance, grid theory, and symetry/asymetry. The chapter on color hits color psychology (“Feeling a bit blue today?”), palatte selection, and the value of using color wheels to pick complementary and contrasting colors.
The rest of the book is every bit as golden, hitting texture, typography, and imagery. There are a number of terrific resources for fonts, colors, and images with a mix between free and commercial resources.
This isn’t a book to find out the details of how blocks flow and clear in CSS, nor is it a book to learn about the latest and greatest in AJAX/Javascript. What this book does cover, and covers well, are the higher-level, vital concepts you need to grok before you start wiring up AJAX controls and laying out elements.
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design isn’t just for lame design folks like myself. I imagine even accomplished web designers could learn a thing or two from it. It’s that good.
Review by Marten K for The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
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A more appropriate title for this book is `things to think about when making a website and how me and my friends do it – for dummies’. The book does a fine job for such a title.
This book does NOT articulate a set of principles and explain their application; there is little to generalize to other problem solving contexts (or my context at least).
I am new to web development and for other self directed learning (Java, XHTML, AJAX and OO) I have started with a funky Head First book followed by more formal academic books (Booch, Bloch, Dietal, Larman, Jeremy Keith).
This book is neither funky or formal. Where the Head First series successfully uses cultural references and idioms to engage the reader in learning complex concepts and principles, this book uses similar devices with no obvious intent other than being familiar. Where the formal books locate material by referencing a broader academic context, this author references the somewhat creative work of his own and that of his friends. There is no bibliography and this is not a primer to the broader discipline.
The author admits difficulty in `verbalizing the procedures’ because much of his design is `subconscious’ (p24), he follows with four pages of stream of consciousness explanation on the realization of a design that includes over sixty `I’ references – and scant reference to design principles. There is NO discussion of the design principles underpinning well-known successful sites, nor how principles unfold in various contexts such as corporate sites, e-commerce sites, blog sites, sales sites, Gothic music and games sites, and so forth.
For example, fixed versus liquid layouts is addressed with pros and cons listed. The author concludes that ‘the decision [is]…determined by the target audience and accessibility goals of each individual web site’ (p29). However, principles for determining audience needs and their accessibility goals for different contexts is NOT really covered.
There seems disdain for academic rigor and technical knowledge: `the rule of thirds or…rule of turds’ (p10). `besides, my maths is a little rusty’ (p9) `Describing …emotional connections … with colors can be a hippy-esque topic’ (p39). There is no sense that the author is in command of the discipline, instead he appears embarrassed by its technical aspects.
Color blindness and accessibility are NOT covered. `Principle/s’ is NOT listed in the index.
I give two stars as it may be useful for some, as demonstrated by other reviews; and the book is well presented. However, I will fulfill my needs by looking for more substantial and perhaps non web directed books on color and graphic design.
[addendum 24 Nov 07 – See my review on “The Complete Color Harmony” by Sutton and Whelan The Complete Color Harmony: Expert Color Information for Professional Color Results (Color Harmony)for a book I used for principles of color]
Review by Nate Klaiber for The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird is a concise book about basic design principles. To some, design is something that is tough to grasp and is a mystery to understand. To others it simply comes naturally. If you find yourself struggling with design and need some direction, then this book is for you. Throughout each of the chapters Jason breaks down the specifics of layout and composition, color, texture, typography, and imagery.
Jason states his intended audience as someone who might be:
…squeamish about choosing colors, feel uninspired by a blank browser window, or get lost trying to choose the right font.
It is important to note that this book is not a book about code, but is about principles, inspiration, and education. With that brief disclaimer out of the way, here is a breakdown of the content found in the book.
The journey starts with chapter 1 and layout and composition. Before any keys are pressed on a keyboard, there is much work and research to be done. Jason talks about his design process and starting things off right with your clients. He gives a brief definition of what makes up good design. I am sure this could be many different things to different people, but he stresses the key points in relation to user interaction on the web. How easy is it for people to find what they are looking for? Does the design help them achieve their goals, or is the design visual eye-candy that inhibits them completing a specific task? Is the navigation and information easy to understand? Can the user navigate without feeling lost? The design process takes time.
Next he looks to the anatomy of a web page. Many pages have a consistency to them. There is a navigation, sub navigation. A masthead with branding information. There might be a search field to help locate different pages. There are an array of columns used for placement. There is a footer that usually has more details or contact information. These are just a few, and they don’t all have to look the same.
The next few pieces discuss grid theory, balance, unity, and emphasis. Each of these play an important role on how your information is presented. Aligning your items to a grid. Aligning your type to a vertical rhythm. Having balance between your sections. Having unity in your sub-pages as the navigation gets deeper. Placing emphasis on any given section. Each of these are discussed in detail and are accompanied by examples found on the web.
This chapter rounds off by Jason showing some bread and butter layouts, finding inspiration on and off the web, giving introduction to some new and fresh trends (you know, the Web 2.0 stuff), and then begins the application that we will watch unfold throughout the rest of the book, a website for Florida Country Tile.
With a firm foundation of layout and composition beneath us, it is time to address the aspect of color. We have all seen beautiful color combinations, and most likely our fair share of not-so-friendly-to-the-eyes color combinations. How do you go about selecting a color scheme for your website? Jason starts this chapter off by discussing the psychology of color. Color theory simply addresses how people react and relate to different colors. There are many variables involved, and some of them are even geographical in nature. What types of colors should you choose for your target audience? Looking to develop a site for a restaurant? Find out how different colors convey different emotions in your users. Color theory gives great insight into how people perceive colors found on your website.
The next few sections discuss things such as the temperature of your colors, the value of your colors, and then into a little bit of color theory. Each of these pieces are given adequate attention with even more examples shown. Things start to get fun as he moves into color theory. Here is where we see some methods used to creating elegant color schemes. No longer do you have to randomly select colors, now you can give your entire website some of that balance that we discussed above. Selecting a color scheme can be very difficult, but as Jason shows there are many options to selecting a color scheme that will fit the needs of your site. As he shows the process for creating a color palette, he moves on to the process of selecting a color palette for the application section. The Florida Country Tile website is starting to get filled out with an elegant color scheme.
The application is starting to come to life. We have a layout, we have a color scheme, and now it is time to see how we can make some subtle improvements through the use of texture. This chapter defines such things as points, line, shape, volume and depth, and pattern. Each of these come with illustrations to further elaborate on the topics. After looking through each of these things, Jason moves to the practical side and building your own textures for your website. This includes subtle background textures, textures for use as borders, and textures are backgrounds for different elements on a page. He gives the application a subtle enhancement by adding a textured background. Things are starting to evolve even more, and the site is starting to take form and life. Background images, drop-shadows, and section separators are just a few ways textures can be used to enhance a layout.
One of the often overlooked aspect of a website is that of typography. This is mainly due in part to the small selection of fonts available to web designers. Jason covers some ways to get around this shortcoming by use of sIFR and other image replacement techniques. Image replacement has been discussed in depth in many different avenues, and Jason doesn’t spend much time discussing these. This is an out of classroom assighment for you as the reader.
Now it’s time to dive in a little deeper. The next few sections are a brief history lesson. He discusses things like letterform, text spacing, letter spacing, text alignment, adjusting line height for an optimal reading experience, and some of distinctions of typefaces. Here you will see a breakdown of serif versus sans-serif, and some of the different variations of each.
With the history behind us, we move forward to what it takes to choose the right font for your project. This is always dependent on the client and the branding that needs to take place. Choosing a typeface is sometimes a difficult process, especially with the large amounts of fonts and variants available to you as a designer. Jason moves on to apply some of these principles to the application that we have been working on. He chooses the fonts he will use throughout the website, both in images and in the body of the pages. He proceeds to add some text on top of the imagery, as well as give some breathing room and separation to the content on the homepage.
Our journey to design bliss is coming to a close. The last chapter discusses adding imagery to give your site a bit of visual flair. Again, Jason begins with a few sections covering some history, what to look for, and where to look for it. This includes the legal implications of the different kinds of images that you may come across. Once we safely secure the images we want to use for the website, and are sure we have full permission to do so, we then move to cropping, adjustments with photoshop, and the different formats and resolutions available to use. Here we see a brief discussion of applying CSS to achieve some re-usable border treatments to our images. Finally, all of this knowledge is used to extend upon the application and give it its final touches.
verall, this book is an excellent resource for those seeking design instruction and inspiration.
Overall, this book is an excellent resource for those seeking design instruction and inspiration. The book is filled with screenshots of different sites and sources for inspiration as the author encourages us to look around for inspiration in our own designs. Seeking inspiration doesn’t always mean emulation. Find a way to make things your own for you and your client. As a reminder, this book might seem elementary for those who have a background and education in design. This book is for those looking to take small steps to improve their websites.
I did have one qualm with this book. This book is primarily constructed of principles, history, and philosophy of design. This means discussion of code and application specific techniques are kept to a minimal. However, given the target audience, it seems as though Jason makes many assumptions about the understanding of Photoshop and the techniques described therein. I know that it would take extra time to explain this process, and he even gives a disclaimer that it is hard for him to explain his entire process. Maybe it would have been nice to have an appendix with some more details to the Photoshop techniques he discusses throughout the book.
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what software was used to design that website?
@jmoviesj how do you think websites are built??? It all starts with images.
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This is not a site 😉 this is an image, you can’t select text, and If you wanna edit the text, you have to create a new image 😉 noob site 😀
@pjongjang yeah
@cakelover33 ya but it should be u can only use it for than I mean.
hi i’m a beginner i dont know nothing about web designing plzz tell me how to make a website or tell any link from where i learn it
@pjongjang ehhhh i still use it to preview my website without opening a browser
@cakelover33 They should just remove the design part
@andorvaelis YES. well i use dreamweaver but i never touch the design part. just use it because it has some handy features.
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It is a very good tutorial about how to design a site. But the explanation is too fast. Search engines like Google cache text rather than images that are fast and your site will index ASAP. Design your site using text as much as possible and not images. Thanks for the information.
slow please
This is my job 🙂 I also write tutorials, check code-spot(dot)net. It’s quite useful 🙂
What about Zackles?
@candywrapp
its better if you know it. with photoshop you can save your website directly as html. however, the code can be very shitty messy (but the site works).
And with photoshop alone you can really do much. I mean, if you want to edit te site, you have to basically edit and clean the code that photoshop made.
It may seem easier to do web design through this video. But in reality, it really takes time to search for best designs and how to develop a certain design to come up with good website. That’s why I seek for professional help from create webworks dot com. They really have great collection of web designs.
So you dont need to use HTML or CSS know how to make this?
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Review by Michael J Woznicki for Network Troubleshooting Tools (O’Reilly System Administration)
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I have been involved with networks and networking for over 12 years and I am always looking for new ways to make sure the network is running at its best, this book has provided me ideas that I hadn’t thought of before and the information is easy enough to understand. The author packs a serious amount of information in the 325 plus pages. Well documented and well laid out the author begins by showing you how to troubleshoot and what steps you’ll have to take in the problem resolution process. Using NETSTAT, IFCONFIG, IPCONFIG and WINIPCFG, ARP and PING are some of the utilities that are broken down and included in the book. Working with Windows, Windows NT/2000 and UNIX networks is the focus of the book. Other topics included are working with and the breakdown of cables and cabling, use of TRACEROUTE or TRACERT, analyzing traffics and packets through filtering and SNMP. Checking out the performance of the network is also an essential item and the author shows what traffic and bandwidth tools you can use. Finally FTP and TFTP servers and utilities are covered as well as troubleshooting planning. Overall for the network technician of all skill levels should be able to benefit from something in this book – well done.
Review by for Network Troubleshooting Tools (O’Reilly System Administration)
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This might be a decent reference book if it contained more detailed information. I am a junior in college and was required to read this book from cover to cover and it was extremely boring. Anything the author discussed could easily be learned from help files or a quick glance at the website the product came from. THe author uses the phrase ‘this is beyond the scope of this book’ just when he begins to talk about something you may not have already known. In conclusion, this would probably be an excellent book for somebody just starting out using troubleshooting tools, but if you have had more then 6 months experience in the field you already know most of the topics he covers.
Review by M. P. Schiesl for Network Troubleshooting Tools (O’Reilly System Administration)
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Eh, book was okay, but didn’t really flip my burger. If you want a nice primer on some of the software tools and commands that you can use for monitoring system performance, this book would probably be just fine. Could have used more graphics. Good for reading at bedtime or in your time off, but just a little too wordy looking if you’re in the field actually trying to get something done.
Review by Ron C. for Network Troubleshooting Tools (O’Reilly System Administration)
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I bot this book for a friend who is a Jr-Mid level network (Unix) admin., who needed advice on this topic. This book does cover all the necessary topics. It’s understandable, not overwhelming, and, as the TOC shows, covers lots of useful, relevant topics. It’s also very practical. Worth buying!
Review by for Network Troubleshooting Tools (O’Reilly System Administration)
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Could have covered more but was worth what you paid for. Not too shabby.
Exactly what the person above stated…so i thought 2 ppl agreeing would help you. CMOS is nothing more than that little lithium battery that holds the memory of the hardware. And also the internal clock. This is why you can turn a computer off and a week later turn it on and the time is correct. Now, what you can do is if someone has a password connected to their BIOS and forgets it…you can remove the CMOS battery for a while and sometimes there is a jumper right next to it that will clear the BIOS password then that person can get to the windows boot screen.
Hope this helps a bit
if your repairing windows using a floppy or cd program you need it to ,change boot order, if you add a hard drive or disc player that dosent work, you can find out if bios even recognized it, if your buss or processor isn,t running at proper speed, you can check and change settings, you can enable a bios password, you can change the start up screen to show diagnostics or not
Review by Ian Peterson for Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols (CCIE Professional Development Series)
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This is the best book I have seen in troubleshooting. Especially covering a tough topic like IP routing protocol. I particularly like the error message in each routing protocol. This allows me to understand the meaning of the error message that is not covered in any of the Cisco manuals. This saves me the trouble of calling Cisco TAC. This is a must book to have if you are in Network operations.
Review by William Katari for Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols (CCIE Professional Development Series)
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This is an excellent book to have. The flowcharts guide me through different problem scenerios, I have already solved many routing problems already using this book. If you want to be a network expert, I say this is a book that you must have.
Review by Sean E. Connelly for Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols (CCIE Professional Development Series)
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CiscoPress’s “Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols” by Shamim, Azis, Liu and Martey is mislabeled. CiscoPress has labeled this book as part of their `CCIE Professional Development’ series – I really do not see the value of placing this book in the same vein as other CCIE books in the series (such as Doyle, Solie, & Clark). However, having been employed as a Network Administrator for a number of years, the book does help troubleshoot and isolate routing protocol issues.
Each major IGP (RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF & IS-IS) along with PIM and BGP is discussed at depth. Each routing protocol is dedicated 2 chapters – one chapter discussing the protocol and one chapter discussing troubleshooting methodologies. The troubleshooting chapters start out with flow charts that can help isolate the issue. Too be honest though, the flow-charts are lacking in depth, and I found only helped verify simple routing issues. The book is also missing a much needed chapter on route redistribution.
There are not that many typos in the book. I give this book four stars as it takes a unique approach to troubleshooting routing protocol issues. However, I fail to find the reason this book needs to be on a CCIE’s bookshelf.
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This is an absolutely wonderful book to have. The flowcharts are easy to follow and it actually helps me to solve network problems for me. I am currently preparing for CCIE lab exam and I am sure this book will help me tremendously in the exam. Kudos to the authors who put this book together.
Review by Danial Peterson for Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols (CCIE Professional Development Series)
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I strongly disagree with the comments “Same old stuff and that its a cut n paste from the materials that are already out there” posted by one of the reviewer previously. How could someone read the whole book comprises of 846 pages in 2 weeks with true understanding of what Author is trying to convey.
Also I have been through half of the book in 3 weeks and its pretty help full is undertstanding in-depth nature of protocols and troubleshooting strategies to follow to nail them down in the real world scenario.I agree there is some common stuff that is already there but the best is that Authors try to convey the strategies to debug the problem in a logical manners.
At last I would rather say it is very easy to give comments rather than to take step and write that kinda book.
Review by Les Nowak for THE savvy way to successful website promotion; Attracting on-line traffic; Guide to top positioning on search engines
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I have several books on Web promotion, but this is one of the best. Not only really updated analyze of search engines and useful engine tips, but plenty of valuable and little-known information about getting real business on-line, with real-life examples… Software recommendations also really useful. By implementing only a few suggestions, I am already enjoying increased traffic of returning shoppers! Thanks, Derek for sharing your experience! Good stuff!
Review by Barry Travis for THE savvy way to successful website promotion; Attracting on-line traffic; Guide to top positioning on search engines
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Well, my Web traffic increased about 200% over last 3 months, after implementing recommended changes and additions. When after reading I was not so sure about few steps, I visited the book’s Web site and e-mailed author with my questions. I received prompt and detailed answer, explaining my thoughts. The author also visited my Web site and made several additional suggestions! At last my little business is not in red, but making a real profit…
Review by Karen Mack for THE savvy way to successful website promotion; Attracting on-line traffic; Guide to top positioning on search engines
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I don’t know about others, but this book helps me a lot. Good explanations and examples. Interesting, little “secrets”. But also – it showed me what not to do! I found several mistakes, and weak points on our site, and am fixing it all now. Never tought such little things can make such a big difference…
Review by David Pye for THE savvy way to successful website promotion; Attracting on-line traffic; Guide to top positioning on search engines
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I read this book after buying it from Amazon. I used lots ofthe techniques mentioned for my websites to some success with my ownknowledge. As a search engine specialist I would reccommend this book to the begginer as a good resource but remind them that search engines change their workings very frequently making some of the figures out of date.My advice is a good buy as a useful general guide. END
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“control his PC ” … wow . sounds like a hacker’s job .it kinda possible , but it would say it’s tooo messy and only complicate things more than it is . whatever the problem is , either guide him through the internet , phone , any alternative . or just come straight to his house . it is not recommended , or that it’s easier , than just doing it the old fashion way.
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Try UltraVNC, it’s free and easy
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enter the IP address into the VNC viewer….too easy
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Uninstall or disable windows defender and try pctools firewall plus do the expert install and you will have full control of your firewall. Oh….and it’s free.
If you have a lot of files and programs on your computer and you haven’t done upkeep and maintenance on it lately, the computer may run slower. There are several maintenance tools on your computer ready to use, and several that are on the internet that can help.
First, run Disk Cleanup (Start> All Programs> Accessories> System Tools> Disk Cleanup).
Second, run Disk Defragmenter (Start> All Programs> Accessories> System Tools> Disk Defragmenter).
After you’ve run those and you’re computer still runs slow with the typing you can download two different programs. A simple Google search for these should be all you need.
CCleaner (yes two C’s) is a great program that cleans out unnecessary temporary files that slows your computer down.
Last but not least, is Spybot – Search & Destroy. This will find any spyware, or adware on your computer.
The links to the downloads are in the sources.
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Good but,
I am an amature in electronics and have been waiting for this book to hit the book stores. I finally picked up a copy. I like the subjects covered. The content on at least some subjects leaves a little to be desired. There is a lot of verbal descriptiion but diagrams would have been helpful when discussing how to use controls on an oscilloscope, for instance. A fuzzy photo of an oscilloscope is shown, and then a detailed discussion is presented of how to use various dials, buttons and so on without any diagram showing where these controls are on the oscilloscope. Similar problems of what waveforms should look like without any diagrams, or photos of how they appear.
I am particularly concerned about the description of how to build your own waveform generator. A discussion of how to do this is given along with a parts list. A photo is then shown of the “assembled function generator”. However, the photo shows that this is really a Canakit (www.canakit.com) funtion generator. No credit is given to Canakit for this photo and the Canakit does not appear to be the same assembled function generator as the one described in the text.
Unfortunately, the author does not wish to be contacted about any questions about what he has presented in this book, since he has given no method of contacting him. A brief search of the WEB did not show any way to contact him.
I realize that writing a book of this size and range of topics is quite a labor, and I will try to get any missing info from other sources.
Electonics amateur/hobbyist
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|Component projects lacking detail,
This book has lots of useful information for the beginner and overall I enjoyed the content of the book. However, it could have been a great book if PCBs or wiring guide diagrams were provided for the construction projects provided throughout the book. This is detail the beginner requires. Perhaps this can be provided through downloads from the publishers site? In addition, I found some references to components, such as resistors and diodes for example, from some of the projects listings that could not be located in the accompanying schematic.
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|Useful, but in need of serious editing,
Overall, I found this to be a helpful book as I try to re-kindle my interest in electronics after many years away from the hobby. It contains much good information and a great deal of detail with respect to setting up a home electronics workshop. In addition to suggesting commercially available products it also offers plans and parts lists for home built testing equipment. It would have been more useful if the author had provided PCB diagrams for the various projects outlined or a least a source for these boards.
My major complaint is that the book needs some serious editing. I have not read the whole book yet, but I have come across several sentences that were clearly overlooked in the editing process. Parts of the book are needlessly repeated almost word for word from earlier sections. The whole book is in much need of a critical re-editing and corrections.
Apart from these problems I did find it a helpful and useful addition to my library of electronics books.
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|This book serves as a great introduction to the basics,
This book is great for anyone who is thinking about starting an online business, or about promoting an offline business on the internet. It really covers ALL the bases and is clearly organized and for this alone the book is a great investment. After all, online marketing can be very disorienting and this book does a fantastic job of laying out the playing field.
However, while it serves as a very useful overview, it is somewhat lacking in great detail which is my only gripe with the book, since it is called “mastering online marketing” and NOT “getting started with online marketing.” I know the author is extremely knowledgeable but I wish he had given more specific details about the logistics and mechanics of the strategies presented.
And to be quite frank, I also find the book a little too self-promotional, since it talks at length about the author and his site and related projects. I don’t mind a plug here or there, but at times the book reads more like a promotional tool than a self-contained how-to book.
Again, I’m not knocking this book, in fact, I have my sights set on reading Meyerson’s previous work, “Success Secrets of the Online Marketing Superstars” — so I think this author is giving us some valuable information, that I’m more than happy to absorb, and would not hesitate to recommend to others.
No doubt, Mastering Online Marketing is filled with useful information that beginners absolutely need to understand. However, for those of us with a little more experience, people seeking to “master” online marketing as the book’s title suggests, this work falls a bit short of the mark.
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|Maybe the problem is with your computer.
Check for SpyWare and Viruses. Make sure that your anti-virus program is working.
Masterful book writing,
Most of us who hang out on the Internet find ourselves suckered by those offers of books or “just $97” or “just $27.” We forget the truth: we can just go to the library and get a head start on a good marketing education.
I’m recommending this book to folks who are clueless about getting started on the Internet. It’s an excellent overview — clear and well-written in step by step format.
As a web site copywriter myself, I wish Meyerson had emphasized the importance of copy. There’s a nice quote from copywriting guru Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero (p. 86), but it’s in the design section.
Just about every Internet marketing guru says copywriting is the single most important skill for Internet marketers, so this chapter could have been much longer. I would also encourage newbies to start with copy and strategy rather than calling the designer first (which is what most people do).
And I wish we had a section on features vs benefits with examples of bullet points.
Still, this book is one of the best (if not *the* best) I’ve seen for broad overviews of Internet marketing. You can always dig deeper once you’ve got a sense of the basics.
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|good but not gospel,
I agree with other reviewers, Jakob does present his ideas as Rules You Must Follow, rather than observations or suggestions. On a few things, he offers no data to back up his assertion, and on a couple things I know he’s factually incorrect. I also agree that there are a lot of typos in this book, but only if you’re observant.
However, what he does present is just great. I like the writing style. I like the example images. For example, when he says to design for “any” screen size, and then shows you 3 screenshots of Web sites that lock themselves into a certain size, that certainly illuminates how stupid some designers can be.
One other point. Jakob is writing for usability, about how people get information. He pays no attention to marketing issues, such as branding, creating product interest, giving the customer a memorable experience, entertainment, etc. It is fine that he concentrates on other areas, but know before you buy the book that you will have to make up you own mind in those areas (at least). For instance, site reports from the Web site I work on show that any time I throw a DHTML “whiz-bang” widget onto the site, the area it is promoting gets a doubling to a quadrupling of traffic. That flies in the face of his “don’t use whiz-bang features” philosophy. But I’ve learned that his data and my data don’t always agree. So take Jakob with a grain of salt.
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|Excellent Baseline Reference,
Desigining Web Usability is, overall, an excellent book. I agree with one of the previous reviewers who stated that if you are a seasoned Web designer/developer there is not a ton of information here that is new. But it is nice to have it all in one place and so lavishly presented. The production value of this book is very high and is itself an example of excellent information presentation (albeit in the print world).
The book is especially good for those new to Web site design and usability. I have seen all too often how graphic designers or especially marketing types and executives new to the Web insist on designing a Web page THEY like instead of one usable for the intended audience.
Overall you may not agree with everything Dr. Nielsen says but if you take the basic principles to heart your Web pages will be much better. A key principle is that just because a page looks good does not mean it functions well. Dr. Nielsen will show you how to do that.
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|I gave up with mine to be honest! I just went and bought a new one! They are so cheap these days and after messing around with the old one for several hours, I just got annoyed and thought, “Oh bugg** this for a game of soldiers!”
Consider doing what you love and use the Internet to help you do it while creating streams of income for yourself.,
I loved this book. The author wrote it after noticing an emerging group of coaches, counselors, and trainers starting to build virtual businesses (ones being conducted over the phone and Internet). He was a professional with his established practice in cold and dreary Illinois. And he wanted to escape from that climate and location, but didn’t see how since his meal ticket was in Illinois. He researched how to build a virtual office for himself. Then took the plunge to do so. And now, by writing this book, he is selling what he learned in the process.
This book is very well outlined and written. Not a word is wasted. It has 12 chapters:
1. The entrepreneurial shift: The key to creating an integrated business mindset
2. Strategic marketing: The key to sustainable online success
3. Products and services: The key to smart selling
4. Design and navigation: Making your Web site dynamic and visitor-friendly
5. Dynamic Web copy: The key to getting people to respond
6. Traffic conversion: The key to increased sales and list building
7. Automation: The key to increasing e-commerce profits
8. Multimedia: Increasing your impact using audio, video, and conferencing
9. Traffic strategies: The key to getting more visitors to your site
10. People power: The key to successful affiliate programs and partnership
11. Web 2.0: The key to using social media effectively
12. Momentum: The key to systemmatizing your business and building your virtual team
I’m in the process of building my own virtual business. And although I didn’t learn anything new by reading this book, I highly recommend it to others who are considering creating a virtual business of their own. Those people are typically coaches, counselors, and trainers of one sort or another.
I liked almost all of the chapters with the exception of Chapter 10. I’m not much of a believer in affiliate programs. I realize they work well for some businesses, like porn, but most others don’t benefit from them. The part of Chapter 10 regarding partnership is right on, though. 5 stars!
PS. A great book to read along with this one is “Four Steps to Building a Profitable Coaching Practice” (ISBN: 0595296602). Read my book review for it that I posted on Amazon. And you might also like “Web Business Success” (ISBN: 0974924504), and “Make a Fortune Promoting Other People’s Stuff Online” (ISBN: 0071478132)? I have written book reviews for both, too. :)
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|My printer came with it’s own solution center(installed on the computer) to address these problems. For anything this won’t answer, go to the company website and check the FAQ’s or sometimes a searchable answer database. If this still fails, contact a representative for help.
Here are some tips from my solution center:
Have you closed all programs not in use?
Your memory resources may be too low. Close all of the programs you are not using.
Are you printing a large file?
Try printing a small file. If you cannot print a small file, your memory resources may be too low. Consider purchasing more memory.
Is your Quality/Speed set at Normal?
Check your All-In-One Print Properties settings. Make sure Normal or Quick Print is selected as your print quality.
For help, go to Checking the Quality/Speed settings
Is the sticker and tape removed from the print cartridges?
Lift up on the scanner unit to reveal the inside of the All-In-One and the print cartridge carrier and remove the print cartridges from the carrier. Make sure the sticker and tape are removed from the print nozzles located on the bottom of the cartridges.
Are the cartridges properly installed?
With the front of the All-In-One facing you, check for proper print cartridge installation. If you are using a color cartridge, make sure it is properly installed in the left hand carrier compartment. If you are using a black cartridge, make sure it is properly installed in the right hand carrier compartment.
For help, click here to go to the Install Cartridge wizard.
Is there a problem with your connections?
For help, go to How to check cable connections.
Are several files open in your software application?
Before sending a file to print, close all other open files in the program you are using. The printer prints a blank page when too many files are open in the same software application.
Hope this helps!
An Intelligent Introduction to Web Usability,
Nielson’s book offers a straightforward and intelligent presentation of web design with a keen awareness of the big picture and what actually happens when users visit a web site. All times the practice of simplicity and ease of use are emphasized in page design, navigation, content and overall web site development.
The book is heavy (literally!) with high quality color printing featuring hundreds of web sites to illustrate each of the points discussed. This could be regarded as a serious textbook that takes a deeper cut into the art and science of effective web site design than the more amusing (and also valuable) reads such as “Web Pages that Suck.”
Nielson addresses such issues as users with disabilities, the global nature of the web and the implications of multilingual sites, the use of metaphors, and the numerous other issues including download times, URL design, graphics, streaming video vs. downloadable video, site structure, color and text design, and so on. The book really “gets into it” and does not shy away from the nitty, gritty details, using its large quantity of illustrations to fully address each point. While it comes across as heavy handed on some occasions (“Do it this way”) where an experienced web designer may see alternatives, this detail provides a great introduction for those new to web design.
This one text effectively captures the most significant topics associated with designing effective web sites that will accomplish the task at hand. Reading it will put the overly zealous gif animators and latest plug-in proponents in touch with the world of the average user. Given some of the hideous web sites I’ve seen even from Fortune 500 companies with large web development budgets, Nielson’s book is a voice of reason and intelligence in an area where hype and flash can cause people to lose sight of their objectives.
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|I have seen this happen before with HP deskjets and I reinstalling the printers drivers did the trick each time.
Try to get the most recent drivers of the printer manufacturers website.
Good luck!
I deleted the program and reinstalled it again and it fixed my problems.
A very uneven book,
The book is a fast read. It’s written in a conversational style, which means it’s sometimes very verbose but rarely difficult to understand. There are some references, most of them to blog posts or web sites. A lot of the information sounds more like opinions and the background info is not really explained. The writer makes many unnecessary comments and opinions on things that are very loosely related to the treated subject.
The scope of the book is large. This means that the treatment of topics is shallow. Inside one chapter I could find very interesting paragraphs and then a couple of pages of uninteresting (too shallow or repetition of something that was self evident or repetition) musings. The book would have benefited from more editing and condensation of ideas, as it seems the writer would have had more to say on many topics. This is why it’s a shame that the expression is not more condensed and organized.
I would recommend the book as an introduction to many issues concerning modern web site design from a non-technical perspective. I didn’t find many new things in the book, but found some inspiring thoughts or comments on existing sites. The problem was that due to the unevenness, there was no fast way of recognizing the less interesting material. But, it’s a fast & easy read, so not too much time is lost on the boring parts. I felt i got some ideas & inspiration from it which is always nice.
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|A very good reference for people needing to get their sites caught up with the social web,
Joshua Porter pours his knowledge about user interface design in social media in this title. While the AOF method (Activities, Objects and Features) he presents early in the book gets a bit confusing when you first read about it, very quickly you get his point.
The design framework he presents is aimed at taking new users of a social site through the steps that make up the usage lifecycle: not being aware of the site > becoming interested in it > using the site for the first time > becoming a regular user > becoming a passionate user.
I see a practical application of Joshua’s design philosophy in the way Ning.com (a platform for you to create your own social network) is put together: it is easy for a new member to sign up and create/manage a profile page, interact with other members and sharing with others inside or outside the network so as to make more people aware of the network.
The main downside I found to the book was that, in an attempt to be more comprehensive, it went into certain topics that had little to do with design, such as the case with the chapter on “Authentic Conversations” (why they are the most important thing you can do for your social web site) and the closing chapter on “Funnel Analysis” which seemed a bit rushed and disconnected from the rest. Still, the chapter on authentic conversations was useful and even the one on metrics carried weight and useful tips, just not as much as the rest of the book.
Overall, a very good reference for folks needing to catch up with the social web in the sites they manage.
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|Very well written,
First, this is not a programming book- there are no lines of code. Instead, this is about the design of social websites. It is very well written, with many illustrations and examples, in a style which makes it both easy to read and useful as a reference. It’s clear that the author put a lot of time into this- probably because he’s read countless books himself lacking in these areas. You can probably find books with more information on each topic he discusses but I have never seen one that pulls the information together so completely and coherently. For this alone, he deserves high marks.
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|Most Thorough, Yet Compact Performance Tuning Book 9i-11g,
“Troubleshooting Oracle Performance” is the most thorough, yet physically compact book covering performance tuning with Oracle 9i R2 through 11g R1 on the market. It is quite clear that a great deal of effort was made by the author to carefully verify the tips and test results contained in the book and to organize the material in a logical progression, thus building a bridge between the reader’s current understanding to the understanding of complex tuning approaches.
What this book accomplishes, which most other performance tuning books seem to miss, is to indicate which performance tuning features are available in each Oracle release (and which are available at no additional licensing cost) as the various performance tuning approaches are discussed. Not only does the book indicate when a feature would be appropriate, but also potential problems (“Pitfalls and Fallacies”) associated with each feature.
The depth of coverage of Oracle 11g R1 features is surprisingly thorough given the short amount of time which that version has been on the market. A little more detail in a couple areas, such as hacking stored outlines, would have been helpful; at the same time, everyone who reads the book might have a different opinion of what needed additional detail, the book could have grown to 2500 or more pages, and likely would have been obsolete by the time it was published.
The Apress Roadmap on the back cover of the book indicates that this book should be read before “Forecasting Oracle Performance”, “Expert Oracle Database Architecture”, and “Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals”. The “Troubleshooting Oracle Performance” book seems to assume that the Oracle database concepts are well understood. As such, it is probably wise to read “Expert Oracle Database Architecture” first, followed by this book, “Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals”, and finally “Forecasting Oracle Performance”.
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|A MUST for Developers and DBAs,
BOTH Developers and DBAs can learn from this book. Along the line of “Optimizing Oracle Performance” by Cary Milsap; this books shows by clear examples how to Identify Performance Problems (Chapter 3) and how to solve those problems (the remainder of the book).
Developers can learn how to Instrument code to help the tuning process.
DBAs can then trace the code and find the bottleneck/waits.
This book bridges the gap between Developers and DBAs and points out indirectly that Performance is a teams effort and solution.
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|Excellent work,
This book is exremely useful for Oracle Administrators and Developers alike. It is easy to understand and contains valuable information for everybody interested in understanding Oracle performance issues. The author demonstrates an excellent method to identify wrong Optimizer estimates that lead to suboptimal execution plans.
The author shares dozens of “best-practices” and advices from his personal consulting experience as well es detailed information which is not available in Oracle documentation.
My personal highlight was the introduction to a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use SQL Trace Analyzer TVD$XTAT which overcomes the limits of tkprof for SQL Response Time Analysis.
This book is a must-have for every Oracle professional.
Martin Decker
ora-solutions.net
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|Best SEO Book Around,
I have had a chance to read all of Michael’s books on SEO and have yet to be disappointed. This one is no exception. Michael clearly outlines the steps needed to search engine optimize your website. I have recommended this book to many of my friends and business contacts who are interested in learning about SEO. If you are a small business owner or a blogger and would like to get more traffic your site, this is the book you need.
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|The best money I’ve spent on SEO/SEM Strategies,
As the owner of a web design firm that offers a growing bundle of SEO services, I have spent thousands of dollars staying up-to-date with the latest strategies for search engine optimization.
But despite the big-name conferences I’ve attended, this $30 book is the best investment I’ve made in SEO.
The author does a phenomenal job of covering every phase of the process. In fact, I hit Amazon this evening, because I’m buying 4 more copies that will be distributed to every part of my team… 1 for our lead web programmer, 1 for the people doing keyword research, 1 for our copywriter and 1 for the people who focus on link building strategies. There’s stuff in here from which everybody can benefit.
I also appreciate how it’s organized. If you like text – there’s a section in each chapter with text. If you prefer pictures, the second part of each chapter is chock full of diagrams and images that would allow somebody to learn a lot with minimal reading.
I highly recommend this book.
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|Really great SEO book: top marks,
As a business owner I’ve been looking for an understandable book on this for ages. Well written, with comprehensive coverage of how to get my website ranked high. Highly recommend.
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|2nd Edition – Still More Trees than Forest SEO,
I did not read the 1st edition, but I just finished the 2nd edition of this ‘visual’ book. As an instructor of search engine optimization both offline at AcademyX in San Franciso and online at JM Internet Group, I try to read every new SEO book that comes out. It’s one way I keep my mind fresh and learn from the best and brightest.
Kristopher Jones has updated what is one of the landmark do-it-yourself books on SEO. I really hoped that the visual method would be more helpful than the word-heavy books that plague the SEO industry. That said, this book is also quite heavy on text and very, very light on theory. My students need simple step-by-step instructions that do not overwhelm them. This book has too many options, too many items, and not enough coherence about what is more important vs. less important in SEO.
Even on particular topics – like the Google keyword tool – he doesn’t give you enough detail. It would have been better to have more information, more visuals for the major resources like that, and drop the cornucopia of details on all the other, lesser tools. One tragic error – he indicates that Google does not use the meta description tool, and that is patently wrong.
At any rate, it is still a very good book and deserves a spot on anyone’s reference library for SEO. Some of the tools and tricks can be found nowhere else.
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|SEO That Gets Results,
As someone who has been around search engine optimization for a long time, I have to say how happy I am with the second edition of SEO Made Simple. The book took some time to revise given all of the changes to Google and the time required to expand the techniques originally introduced a couple of years ago. There are plenty of SEO books out there but only one that shows you exactly what to do in order to achieve the results you’re looking for on the world’s largest search engine – Google.
Others have tried to emulate the success of SEO Made Simple… but don’t be fooled. There’s only one guide that time and again is getting results for those who want the number one position on Google and other major search engines. The techniques are proven and have been expanded in the new edition. Not only have the original techniques been updated to reflect appropriate changes, but new techniques have been added to cover algorithm changes from the latest Google updates.
The book is very comprehensive and covers everything you need to know to achieve #1 rankings – plain and simple. It gives enough information to help with your understanding, without over complicating things. The book is designed to explain what to do and show you exactly how to do it without the fluff.
I’m personally most pleased with the new content that’s been added. Not only is the topic of universal search covered in detail, but a step-by-step plan is revealed that shows you exactly how to build an authority web site that can command top rankings as you seek out and expand search terms. If you’re looking for search engine results, than SEO Made Simple (second edition) is the book for you!
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|Want more hits? Start here!,
Many SEO books focus on keyword optimization, but this little number is a veritable compendium of techniques. If you applied half of what you’ll find in here, your site would be more optimized than you can even imagine. This covers everything from content to links to blogs to micro-blogs to forums to reviews to directories and communities and ad copy and keyword bidding… whew. No other books comes even close to the variety of options that Kristopher’s book has. You’ll learn more about variations of SEO techniques from this book than any other source. So start here, and if you need to go further in depth on any of the topics, you can branch off into some of the other fine books out there on specific topics like landing page and keyword optimization.
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|Ranking Number One…,
At […], we operate in one of THE most competitive businesses: How To Make Money Online and like most Internet Marketers, we’ve avoided SEO like the plague, because everything we’ve heard tells us it’s too complex, that the sands shift too quickly and that we can’t beat the big players. James and his book have turned all that around for us and we got to keep our sanity and our savings intact. Our rankings are rocketing & we’ve understood a thousand times more about the process than we thought we would. Technical knowledge is one thing, but interpersonal skills are just as important to the client: James has both and he deploys them both with equal skill. Highly recommended – every SME owner and every Internet Marketer should buy a copy.
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|SEO Made Simple – resenha em portugues,
“SEO Simplificado: Estratégias para Dominar o maior Buscador do Mundo.” (tradução livre).
Ainda sem versão em português (setembro/2010), um excelente livro para iniciantes (como eu!) no assunto – SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – Otimização (de sites) para Buscadores.
Algumas palavrinhas sobre SEO
A inclusão digital e o crescimento da penetração da internet na população fazem cada vez mais com que pessoas juridicas e físicas busquem seu “lugar ao sol” no mundo virtual. No longo prazo, quem não estiver na internet e não tiver papel ativo nela, infelizmente será considerado um cidadão de 2a categoria. Quase que se não possuir um site, um blog, um dominio que seja, seria como se não tivesse um RG nesse “cibermundo”. Isso desencadeou entre os que já tem seu site, seja institucional, loja virtual, blog, etc., a necessidade de competir para ser “encontrado”. Isso tem dado aos Buscadores – sites de busca como o Google, Yahoo, Bing e tantos outros – poder para direcionar o tráfego de internautas para determinados sites. Cada buscador tem seus parâmetros e métodos para considerar um site mais relevante que outro. Portanto, para serem “achados” pelos buscadores com mais facilidade os sites estão alterando suas arquiteturas dentro de um conceito de Otimização para Busca, o tal SEO em inglês.
Sobre o Livro
Junto com o recém publicado “PPC made Simple” – algo como “Pay-per-click Simplificado” – forma a dupla de livros do Autor sobre como melhorar a performance de um site nas buscas do Google, o maior buscador mundial, seja otimizando-o internamente, seja criando links de outros sites, seja pagando anuncios (pay-per click).
É relevante a quantidade de opções gratuitas ou de baixo custo para otimizar a arquitetura de um site para torná-lo mais facilmente “achavél” pela máquina de busca do Google.
Fleischner divide o livro basicamente em duas partes: otimização no próprio site (On-page optimization) e otimizações na popularidade do seu site (Off-page optimization)
Vamos às principais idéias do Livro.
Otimizações “On-page”:
. certifique-se de incuir suas palavras-chave entre os meta-tags.
. cuidado ao selecionar sua URL. Tem de fazer sentido com as palavras-chave.
. confira se o HTML está correto (W3C).
. nomes das imagens devem ser completos e ter relação com as palavras-chave.
. as palavras-chave devem aparecer entre as 25 primeiras e as 25 últimas de cada página.
. use itálico, negrito e sublinhado para destacar palavras-chave.
. elimine arquivos em Flash.
. use o mínimo possível de Java.
. tenha sempre o mapa do site atualizado (isso ajuda o Googlebot a navegar).
. pesquise palavras-chave e use as menos competitivas.
Otimizações “Off-page”:
. ao desenvolver links externos, lembre-se que links de uma via (para seu site) valem mais que os de duas vias. E que links valem pelo PageRank do site de origem. Portanto um único link de um site com bom PageRank vale mais que inúmeros links de PageRank ínfimos. Não abuse dos links recíprocos (de duas vias), principalmente se o PageRank “barganhado” não for maior que o do seu site. “Qualidade atrai qualidade”.
. certifique-se de ter as palavras-chave escritas no link externo.
. pesquise os concorrentes, principalmente os de PageRank maior. Veja quem dá link para o site do concorrente.
. adicione marcadores de sites sociais em seu site, para que os vistantes possam não apenas marcar seu site/matéria, mas encaminhar e dividir com mais pessoas.
. distribua matérias-notícias para a mídia com links para seu site.
. tenha um blog com link para seu site.
Enfim, o livro é muito bom no que se propõe ser: direto, simples e claro. Uma ótima referência para quem precisa saber de SEO mas tem baixos conhecimentos como programador.
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|Top Tips and Resource for SEO,
This is an amazing book for marketers; you can read from the beginning to end or pick up where you want depending on your level of expertise or need for SEO. As a marketer I am always looking for ways to improve online marketing and awareness. This book is just that: provide you with practical tips and tools to make your company rank #1.
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|It depends on how much freedom you want when designing a website. You can start easily by learning some basic HTML, there are many tutorials of the internet. However, if you plan on making dynamic web content such as forums or blogs, hard coding it would take a long time. There are many pre-designed packages available for free that allow you to create dynamic web content.
Graphic design comes in pretty handy in web design, mostly for resizing and compressing images. But you can do that without any expensive software packages.
Well you can either use a WYSIWYG like Dreamweaver or learn HTML, http://www.w3schools.com. Dreamweaver I find is a little hard to understand so I would start with HTML to see how you do first.
If you need a free webhost to practice there’s http://www.000webhost.com or you can use Notepad.
You can try ning or webs.com
If you want to learn website design at a professional level then you need to learn how to code HTML/CSS and then JavaScript and PHP.
http://www.w3schools.com/ This will help you to get started!
hit the windows button on your keyboard. it should be next to your ctrl button on the left. it will open up your start menu. then you can use your arrow buttons to get to my computer there. good luck!
Hold down the Windows key and hit the Pause/Break key (beside ScrollLock). This should open the My Computer properties screen. More such keyboard shortcuts at the link below.
This provide the main shortcuts
http://www.esolution.co/common-keyboard-shortcuts
Windows key+F, then Backspace, then tab until you get to the My Computer Icon
Hold down the Windows key (next to Ctrl) and press Break (usually at the top right of your keyboard).
Alternatively:
Hold down the Windows key (next to Ctrl) and press E. This will open Windows Explorer and My Computer will probably be highlighted (if it isn’t use the arrow keys to select it). You can press the Context menu key (next to Ctrl on the right hand side of your keyboard) and choose Properties.
press ALT+TAB then when the icon is highlighted click the keyboard key near CTRL,, it is like a paper and a arrow.. hit it then a drop down will appear then choose properties by keyboard.. hope it helps… please rate my answer… thanks!
Can’t can’t wait to check it out again. Last time in the Algarve was 1986 for Xmas. Still looks stunning. 🙂
Great Introduction to Mobile Web Design,
This is a great introduction to designing web pages for mobile phones because it covers the basic knowledge one needs to understand the design challenges posed by mobile phones. It does require a basic understanding of XHTML, CSS, and a little Javascript to work the examples in the book but the information is great and the examples are thorough and clear.
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|Mobile Web Design For Dummies,
This is a must read for anyone who builds web sites and needs to learn about designing a mobile site.
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|Beautiful video! I LOVE the Algarve. Definitely worth visiting! AMAZING COUNTRY!
Interesting and Helpful,
The book is great!! The authors explain a potentially complicated subject in such a way that even a relative technology notice like myself understood it. This is the first “for dummies” book I’ve purchased, but I’m tempted to stock up now.
On a side note, I was also surprised and pleased to see that they prominently mentioned the mobile website of indie songwriter Tori Sparks. My husband and I have been a big fan of hers for years.
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|Deviam fornecer um vídeo com melhor qualidade. De resto está excelente 🙂
nao e sempre verao, mas como disse o belhote quando faz frio na europa no algarve esta morno….
let’s go
I love Pego do Inferno (the waterfall) – and I have chosen to live here 🙂
@cloreto9 música é do Francisco Faria através da Indigo. Cantado pela Viviane (entre aspas) letra Marco Pacheco (acho)
@kerek99 SAGRES! Many surfing options.
Fabuloso, quem me derqa poder ir a Algarve, seria muito bom, um belo vídeo,compartilhei com voces, abraços
Fantastic video! I am looking for a honeymoon location early september, where I can still surf. Any recomendations?
Only in Portugal will you find this, our people are very kind and welcoming of tourists to our nation, we make you feel like one of us. Good work I’m from the Acores but i will go here one day!
@MrDeeplyunknown Nome da música (ainda por confirmar): O segredo. Interprete da música: Viviane Parra. MySpace: Viviane Parra
WikiPedia: Viviane_(cantora)
e qual é o nome da musica?
Waw 🙂 I’m proud of my region. that’s it!
Alguem sabe o autor desta musica??
Epah … só não deviam fazer as pessoas pensarem que é sempre verão aqui. 🙂
De resto tá excelente! O nosso Algarve é lindoooo!
Estando cá, nem reparamos na sorte que temos 🙂
LIndo! Simplesmente lindo!
Beautiful and amazing presentation of Algarve.
adorei o video promocional, já o partilhei com muitos amigos estrangeiros para que possam roer de inveja 🙂
parabéns
I wish more authors of this type of content would take the time you did to research and write so well. I am very impressed with your vision and insight.
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