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Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis. 1998. Alameda, CA: Sybex. [ISBN 0-78212187-X. 266 pages, including index and CD-ROM. $39.00 (softcover)].
Some people half jokingly evaluate business decisions based on whether a decision might put them into a Dilbert cartoon. Similarly, if you're a Web developer, you might evaluate your design decisions based on whether they could make your Web site show up in Web pages that suck.
Web pages that suck is subtitled Learn good design by looking at bad design, and the book helps you do just that. It evaluates real Web sites from United Airlines (http://www. ual.com/), Pepsi (http://www.pepsi.com/), Jelly Belly (http://www.jellybelly.com/), Cigar aficionado magazine (http://www. cigaraficionado.com/), and others, along with made-up sites, to illustrate good design by showing examples of what the authors consider bad design.
But Web pages that suck doesn't simply evaluate design for design's sake. Instead, it describes the full range of Web tasks-goal and audience analysis, design, writing, graphics, maintenance, marketing, and new technology-from the down-to-earth design perspective of how to...