1 Hour Web Site: 120 Professional Templates and Skins (Bible)
by Michael Utvich, Ken Milhous, Yana Beylinson
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Author: Ken Milhous, Michael Utvich, Yana BeylinsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-30
ISBN: 0471933384
Number of pages: 504
Publisher: Wiley
Book Reviews of 1 Hour Web Site: 120 Professional Templates and Skins (Bible)
Book Review: Cut and paste: like cheating on a term paper by making the font larger
Summary: 2 Stars
As someone else stated, this book, or rather the CD, contains 40 templates not 120. (If you count color variations on a theme, then you have 120 templates.) Deceptive, I think.
The chapters give line by line instructions on how to change the tokens so that you can personalize the templates for your specific needs; however, each chapter gives the same line-by-line instructions. It's basically a cut and paste to make the book have more chapters and pages. It's like trying to use a bigger font on a term paper to make the paper be the required amount of pages and think that the professor won't see that you used a 14 pt. font instead of a standard 12 pt. font.
Errata! Of course out of all the templates in the book, I chose template 920 for which the errata has not been corrected on the publisher's Website. I chose this particular one for the tabs. The publisher's errata corrects the tab error for template 1120. I tried applying some of the corrected tab techniques that I was able to discern from the corrections they gave for tab errors in template 1120 to template 920. I never achieved success! Needless to say, my Web page does not look anything at all like the template in the book. Tsk. Tsk.
Also, the Flash files do not work. I read another reviewer's statement concerning same and decided not to go through what he did since the Flash problems were never resolved.
Moreover, if you truly want to personalize the templates for your needs, you do need to have some knowledge of HTML and CSS. I am using Jennifer Robbins' book "Learning Web Design" alongside "1 Hour" which is helpful.
Let's just say, since I picked a template that doesn't have all the mark up and correct CSS layout, I still haven't finished my Website and I've worked on it for 15 hours thus far. Maybe if you're lucky and pick a template that has everything you need and looks like the example in the book, then you can be up and running in an hour.
Another astonishing fact is that the book is not in color. Another cost-cutting technique in addition to cutting and pasting. Color is a major cornerstone of Web design. At least give us color so we don't have to click on each template on the CD to see what the template actually looks like with color.
Succinctly: The authors and publisher cheated by cutting and pasting the machinations it takes to customize the templates and have not corrected major errata.
Summary of 1 Hour Web Site: 120 Professional Templates and Skins (Bible)
Build a high-profile Web presence in an hour!A high-quality Web site for your business or organization is easily within your grasp using the cutting-edge templates in this practical book. It's all here: 40 professionally designed templates on a CD, plus80 variations--120 designs in all created just for this book--and the step-by-step instructions you need to choose one and customize it using your own content. Use WordPad or any basic text editor on your PC or Mac--that's all you need. The templates also work with any Web application such as Dreamweaver(r)or FrontPage(r).
- From simple one-pagers to complex business Web sites to killer blog pages, this book gets you live in one hour, without knowing HTML, JavaScript, or programming.
- Select the right template for your Web presence--business, professional services, e-commerce, retail, blog site, and more.
- Learn the basics of obtaining a URL, hosting a site, and going live.
- Add your own content quickly and easily.
- Go live right away with a free month of hosting from nexcess.net (with one-year contract).
- Add your own design elements with a free trial copy of Photoshop(r) Elements on CD.
On the CD-ROM you'll find the working Web files for 120 Web templates, some including a Flash movie component. The CD also includes Photoshop Elements tryout version.
System Requirements: Please see the CD-ROM appendix for details and complete system requirements.
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