Building a Web Site for Dummies (For Dummies)

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
If you are just getting your feet wet in Web site construction, the first big hurdle is figuring out where to start. Building a Web Site for Dummies lightens things up with humour and makes the challenge of building a site far less daunting.

This book doesn't zoom you right into coding HTML--though it covers the markup language quite well. Instead, it offers a much higher level look at site design by examining the general questions of navigation principles, affiliates possibilities, building communications with your users, and other wide-ranging topics. For this reason, the book covers a lot of ground and offers a broad perspective on site design that transcends simple page coding.

A couple of the more useful sections on Web site tools and e-commerce cover useful utilities like NetMechanic, Statbot and Spinwave. The chapter on e-commerce helps you get to know the ropes of selling stuff online and points you to online malls, fulfilment services, and currency converters.

The companion CD-ROM contains evaluation versions of useful tools like Paint Shop Pro, HomeSite 4.5, Fireworks, Dreamweaver and Statbot. You won't find all the knowledge you seek to become a Web site guru in this book, but you will gain perspective and learn tons of useful tips and tricks. --Stephen W. Plain

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Customer reviews

review by: Claire Annals date: 2008-08-22 rating:
Too advanced for this Dummie
Being a complete novice but also not able to pay someone else to build my website I opted for the 'well known name' to help me to build my own website. Big mistake - the first few pages state that it is assumed that you already know how to build a website - duh who commissioned this? About as useful as a chocolate teapot.

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review by: A real dummy date: 2007-11-30 rating:
Rip off
This book should be banned under the Trades Descriptions Act - it is not for dummies. Probably useful if you intend to hire an expert to build the web site for you, otherwise useless.
I only gave it one star so I could give the review, my score is minus 10.
I will not sell it to torture some other poor soul, I will be burning it!
This will teach me to read the reviews!

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review by: date: 2005-06-21 rating:
How Dumb am I?
I felt very cheated when I opened this book for the first time and read on page two, Under the heading 'Foolish Assumptions' that the reader would need experience of building web pages before they could use this book.


review by: date: 2004-10-19 rating:
Not useful for novices
I am a complete novice when it comes to web-design. I saw this book and immediately thought that it would provide a perfect starting point for my attempts at building my own website. I was very wrong, as it assumes that you have a reasonable level of understanding from the outset. It is probably very beneficial for those who want to expand on their knowledge, or to improve their web-designing abilities, offering what seem like useful and informative advanced tips, but for beginners it is far too overwhelming. I'm going to try a more accessible book first, and then come back to this once I'm a web guru.

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