The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

Feb 02

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

Product DescriptionTired sites that work absolutely perfectly but just not nice? If yes, then Principles of Beautiful Web Design is for you. A simple, easy-to-follow guide, with many colorful examples presented, this book will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish. Good design principles are not rocket science, and using the information contained in this book will help you create stunning websites. Understand understand the design process, from discovery to implementation, to develop “good design” Encourage the development of layouts using grids, the rule of thirds, balance and symmetry of the effective the use of color, the colors and a palette Use textures, lines, dots, shapes, volumes and depth Learn how good typography can ordinary designs look great Effective images: selection, editing and placing images, and much in this book, you will find an example to follow design, by the idea… More>>

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

5 Responses to “The Principles of Beautiful Web Design”

nita gale Says:
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:15 pm
I’m a regular visitor to sitepoint. I do enjoy Jason Beard’s writings. However, after finishing this book I find myself not one whit smarter and actually feel dumber for having spent the $ on it. Seriously, anything this elementary should be billed as so. I learned nothing.
Rating: 1 / 5
Old parrothead Says:
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Book was delivered in condition advertised and arrived promptly as promised. Would buy from seller again
Rating: 4 / 5
Renier F. Navas Says:
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Good book. It explains some designs ideas and techniques in a very simple way.
Rating: 4 / 5
Jonathan Aquino Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:10 am
Alas, I’m about halfway through and, to be honest, I’m a bit bored. Colorful pages, but it’s theory and, I dunno, not enough practical bits. Perhaps it is hard to present design theory so as to make it fascinating.

Anyway, hopefully the second half will be better.

Try to find some excerpts online to see if it’s your thing.

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Update 2007-12-29

The second half was better. I learned of a couple of good sites for free stock photos (sxc.hu and Morguefile), introductory information on the power of PhotoShop, and a brief intro to the classification of type (fonts).

(I’m a computer programmer.)
Rating: 3 / 5
bradford g wheler Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:09 am
Beaird’s book is very well written and a great help in understanding what make a beautiful website. Given how many truly bad websites are out there more designers need to read this book.

Before setting up the website for Snappy Sayings: wit & wisdom from the world’s greatest minds I read Beaird’s book and two or three others. I found his the most helpful. Now that my website is up I am going back to “The Principles of Beautiful Web Design” to improve what I have. His design ideas even helped me with the layout and design of Snappy Sayings: wit & wisdom from the world’s greatest minds. I wonder if he knew he was also helping make book designs more beautiful?

There is so much in this book that web designer who are from the techie side can easily use. Years of design school and experience in an easy to understand and use format is what makes this such a great book.

Rating: 5 / 5

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