Well, I got my copy of the book in the mail today. Thanks to some creative CoffeeCup marketing, I was finally convinced to spend some cash on it. My arm didn't feel too twisted.
Maybe you should have titled it,
"My Website Can Beat Up Your Website." 
So far I've just glanced through it a bit, but I like what I see. There's some good basic info and some stuff I've not seen before. This will definitely be a good addition to my website book shelf.
I always keep a copy of HTML 3.2 Manual of Style handy as well as a couple other books that I bought several years ago. They're a bit dated in their design recommendations, but I still enjoy reading through them.
"Web Concept and Design" by
Crystal Waters is GREAT. I love her stuff, but things have changed a lot since she wrote it.
"Creating Killer Web Sites" is another book I keep handy. Lots of very colorful pictures and some neat examples. It's always encouraged me to think outside the box.
I'm not sure how the rest of you feel but sometimes when I'm working on the same page over and over again, it gets a little mundane. I realize I'm just using the same template and changing the text...there's not a lot of challenge to that. Every now and then I take on a new project and try to come up with some new designs just to see if I can do them. I did
this one a few months ago for a friend who's a professor at the local university just to see if I could come up with something different. The navigation was fun to put together.
Anyway, today's a free day for me, so I'll likely pack up and head to the coffee shop to get my latest update out and read over my new book. Hopefully--unlike on the cover--they'll give me a
whole coffee cup!
Bret
Geocacher University
Because some of us never outgrew hide-and-seek
Oh... I didn't realize you were quoting a book title.
I came to say, "NOoooO it's nah-ooooot!"
It never occurred to me to get a book with the basic code in it. How very clever of you.
The only thing I've ever really done on my own was change the borders on polls from Hot Script or someplace. But that was really not much more than filling in the blanks.
Gosh, how clever you are! Thanks!!!!!
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Karen Kline
Hi Karen,
I would entirely agree with Bret on his suggestion to get hold of "Creating Killer Web Sites" by David Siegel.
As I mentioned in another post, it has been my web bible for many years and that, together with CC software, probably taught me all I know. My very first web site (
www.nuovaicona.org) was built based on the info packed inside that book.
But aside from books, I guess my greatest input came from the mistakes I made (and continue to make I must add!!) and hours and hours of trials and errors!
Good Luck!
Janys
http://blogthemeforge.blogspot.com/
(my photographs and graphics as freebies to liven up your blog, web site or desktop)
http://artycraftycreations.blogspot.com
(exchanging crafting ideas)
JANYS HYDE wrote:Hi Karen,
I would entirely agree with Bret on his suggestion to get hold of "Creating Killer Web Sites" by David Siegel.
As I mentioned in another post, it has been my web bible for many years and that, together with CC software, probably taught me all I know. My very first web site (
www.nuovaicona.org) was built based on the info packed inside that book.
But aside from books, I guess my greatest input came from the mistakes I made (and continue to make I must add!!) and hours and hours of trials and errors!
Good Luck!
Janys
Boy, I love the purple on your site. It is soooo vibrant, it's as if it's active.
the photography is wonderful.
Really a very beautiful site.
I'm glad you wrote.
http://www.health-boundaries-bite.com/Fingernails.html
Your fingernails reflect your health -
Learn some warning signs -
Karen Kline
I must admit that I don't have many web design books - well none! I do have on my desk at all times though 'Instant HTML Programmer's Reference' by WROX. Not so much that its a good read, but rather that it tends to have lots of little solutions within its well thumbed pages. Pretty outdated now!
I tend to get my inspiriration from other peoples web sites. I see something I like and say to myself, that would be great for my site - how could I do that? It is fun playing around and seeing if your skills (or lack of them) can create what you originally saw and desired. Most of the time I can't recreate anything, but hey presto! I always come up with something else, something that I had not thought of previously.
'Trial and Error' and 'Learning by your Mistakes', these should be the titles of books on my shelf.
N.B. For those who are interested, there is a web site that compliments the book 'Creating Killer Web Sites' at
http://www.killersites.com/
Mark Loves CoffeeCup
Hi Mark,
I have another book title for your shelf - "If at first you don't succeed!"
Karen,
And many thanks, Karen! You are too kind. Certainly something that tends to distinguish anything I do with web sites is the colour choices. Perhaps you have also looked at my ongoing "baby"
www.giudecca-homes.com which has provoked some varying comments! Black I chose for the air of mystery (and to represent the gondola, one of the symbols of Venice) - the orange/ochre to add a little sunshine and to recall the earthy colours of Italian homes and then finally the white, just to give a clean background to all the various colours contained in all the photographs.
Anyway, I look forward to seeing anything you do of your own. Please feel free to give us all a shout when you get in a fix.
bye,
Janys
http://blogthemeforge.blogspot.com/
(my photographs and graphics as freebies to liven up your blog, web site or desktop)
http://artycraftycreations.blogspot.com
(exchanging crafting ideas)
I had a pro se part to my web site that a lot of people were visiting. It amazed me, really.
A web designer critiqued my site and I made a lot of changes to improve the things she didn't like. After that hardly anyone visited the pro se part of my site.
I don't know how many are Americans on this forum, but my condo was just foreclosed and sold without any notice to me. I got an offer on it after I did thousands of dollars of work, and someone called the Realtor saying he had the title. That's how I found out.
I'm mentioning this because I'm so in shock. It was last Saturday that the Realtor told me that.
It's all because of the privy pit... and the complete lack of any Constitutional rights that used to exist, like the right to due process.
http://www.health-boundaries-bite.com/O … e-Pit.html
I think that's the page address. It's been so long since I could work on my site. Though Yahoo has a tech and the engineers working on my problems with SiteBuilder.
http://www.health-boundaries-bite.com/Fingernails.html
Your fingernails reflect your health -
Learn some warning signs -
Karen Kline
