Book Review: Sexy Web Design
Sexy Web Design by Elliot Jay Stocks is a great idea book for helping you develop web sites that are attractive and user friendly.
Contents 18/25
Ease of Understanding/Practicality 18/25
Pictures/Illustrations 20/25
Additional Features 20/25
Total 76/100
Get your mind out of the gutter, Sexy Web Design is not your book for creating web sites centered around attractive men or women, it’s about creating good looking websites. From user friendly web sites that people want to visit to web sites that are easy for people to visit and come back to again and again Sexy Web Design will help you with web site ideas.
Sexy Web Design is your tool for helping you design websites that are easy to use, look good and are user friendly with common sense ideas behind the process. The author Elliot Jay Stocks takes you through good ideas and basic design elements for web sites and helps you design a web site that you can use.
From the common problems we all see in web sites you can see that not all websites are easy to use or friendly to visitors so research is important. Elliot takes you through a design and research process to find out what your site needs and what elements you want in your design.
Researching what the site is about and what you want to highlight on the index page is important so research and getting to know about the content is important. This book is not a step by step tutorial for specific programs to design and create your website but a basic thought provoking process to help you with the creation process.
Sexy Web Design is all about sketching and getting the design down on paper before you start with a program so you go through a logical process of thinking about and seeing what works and what doesn’t. This is all a part of research as well as designing the website and an important part that Elliot stresses is doing research to find out what works on the internet and what doesn’t.
The book takes you through a process of finding out what exactly the website design needs to be and what information you need to add to it to create a good looking and informative web design. Asking the right questions and getting the needed answers is all a part of web design and the book helps you with a series of questions to ask when designing a site for others.
The book helps you in both designing web sites for yourself or as a guide to running a web design business and dealing with customers who are unsure of just what they want. I love his brief from a customer that says I need a good looking website that is easy to use and nothing more.
This would be a very basic way for a customer to ask for you to design a website and he goes into detail about what you need to find out about the needs of a customer. You can also apply these ideas for your own site to list what you want in a site and start designing a site from a logical progression instead of just slapping things together.
Sexy Web Design continues from the research and finding out what is needed for the site and goes into designing the navigation and working with the site that is user friendly. Chapters on aesthetics and what works on the internet is important to the design of a website and the book will show you things about a web site that you may have taken for granted.
From fonts and what is useable and user friendly to a general final project that you can show to a customer the book takes you through the design process and goes into specifics about what works for color, layout and special content. Audio and video is also an important part of some websites and you will have some useful tips and hints for all these types of features all the way through a final project that works and is attractive.
Sexy Web Design is a great book for creating websites for beginners who are unsure of what they need or what works and is not for people who know how to design sites. This is more of a helpful logical guide to help the process and design a website that looks good and works.
Sexy Web design is a great guide for new web developers and a good new look at web design for those that already know what they’re doing but may want a few new ideas. I recommend Sexy Web Design by Elliot Jay Stocks for a fresh new look at web site design and how to make good looking web sites.