I bought 2 copies because I liked the Web Designer’s Idea Book so much. For a person who has sold web designs for a living for 10 years… and a guy who is also a book buying addict, the minute I found it on the shelf at Borders I bought one. I lent it to a friend of mine who is an HTML designer and never got it back. So I bought another copy for myself and I have about 50 pages ear tagged.
The book is organized into coherent sections. Images of the homepages of the websites in the book are grouped by:
- type of website
- design style
- design theme
- color
- element
- structure
My favorite part of the book is that it gives dozens of matching color palettes. I am always trying to learn more about colors and everything I can get my hands on goes into my shopping cart. In most books that offer color palettes, I might use 2 in the entire book. That is the case so far with the Web Designer’s Idea Book. I liked a lot of the palettes but in my work I found places to use 2 of the palettes on new sites. So that is good really.
For most designers, they will find the best part of the book is being able to thumb through it and see hundreds of websites to generate ideas. There are several book series out now that offer the same convenience, and I give this book a Thumbs Up rating for executing the main theme beautifully in comparison to the others. Except for a couple of the initial homepages being standard fare (in everybody’s list of top 100 sites), I found a lot of new sites I have not seen before and I got a lot of great new ideas I can use without doing a straight rip-off copy.
I just saw there is a newer version of this book hitting the Bookstores soon and I cant wait. I’ll buy it the minute I see it.
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