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The Smashing Book (2000)

by Smashing Magazine(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 3

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review 1: This book is a must-read for any person who manages a small team of developers or who wants to start their own software development company. Most of the concepts relayed in this book would not be possible inside larger organizations. In fact, the book itself does a great job of proving that you should embrace being a small company while you can because of the many opportunities and advantages it affords you. It also shows how you can take a lot of wasted time and effort out of how you operate to be more efficient. Best of all, it's a light read (if you got into the book as much as I did, you'll read it all in one evening).
review 2: Abandoned reading for now. The content seems to be great, like the articles from the web site, but even more in depth.However, I m... moreust say that it is not pleasant to read this book. The people from Smashing Magazine are great web designers, but their print design skills do not come even close.I have to break open the book because the text is too near the inner margin. The chosen font is a small sans-serif typeface, which is not good for reading (compare with a book from Sitepoint, for example). The paper is kinda glossy and the pull-out quotes from the text are meaningless (sometimes you read the quote only to find the source right next to it).They really have never worked with book design before, you can tell. this really hurts the content which, again, is great.Oh yeah, there's a typo in the Table of Contents (first page of the book):"Typography: Rules, Guidelines ans Common Mistakes". Oh, the irony... less

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