The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites written by Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay and Jason I. Hong. I was researching for some good web development books when I came across this one. It caught my attention just because of the name alone. I was interested in finding out if this was just another book of fluff, you know, one of those books where there is not much of a structure and it feels like its your reading on and on, kind of like this sentence. So I did my research before I spent the $59 for it. I found nothing but really good reviews. “The coverage [The Design of Sites] is excellent, issues go beyond the traditional ‘design the best page’ focus and do a good job of showing the context. I haven’t seen any other book with the kind of breadth this has.” TERRY WINOGRAD, Professor of computer science, Stanford University, and editor of Bringing Design to Software.1
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I read a book called the secret and it wasn’t like the normal books ive read. The secret was written by Rhonda Byline in 2006 and is a compilation of many writings and quotes from many different people from many different walks of life. The whole book revolves around the theme that what you think about the universe will make happen. The writer starts off telling you about the troubles she had recently gotten into and goes on to tell how that led her to find the secret.

The secret is what the book spends the next 185 pages explaining and also how the secret was suppressed by the upper elite who all know the secret but don’t want you to know. The first few pages goes in to detail about if you want it you should think about it and it will come to you, and that means anything. This means anything anyone wants they can have just by merely thinking about it and doing what ideas or actions the universe communicates to them.

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The book: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries & Jack Trout
(full title is The 22 Immutable Laws of MARKETING Violate Them at Your Own Risk!, including the caps and lack of punctuation).

Actually, this was a surprisingly good book that made a lot of very well informed, and very true points about marketing. Most of these can and do apply to what we do without any modification. For example, the Law of Singularity states that “Trying harder is not the secret of marketing success.” and “…the only thing that works is the single bold stroke,” further called “the line of least expectation.” Continue reading ‘A Book Report You Should Definitely Read, But Only if You Want to.’

Success Secrets of the Online Marketing Superstars by Mitch Meyerson is a compilation of information from some of the best marketers on the internet. Each chapter is completely different and separate from the rest of the book, as each chapter is written by a different marketing expert. Despite this seemingly haphazard approach to writing a book, Meyerson put it together in a way that gives the information a logical order.

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Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) is a web technology that since about 2003 I have felt was erratically supported, inconsistent, and difficult to use. It seemed that although many web developers went on and on about how great CSS was, and how the use of tables for layouts should be abandoned, whenever I tried to use CSS to do more than simple text styles it never seemed to work as I expected.

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