--- product_id: 9319751 title: "The Web Designer's Idea Book, Vol. 2: More of the Best Themes, Trends and Styles in Website Design" price: "S$47" currency: SGD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sg/products/9319751-the-web-designers-idea-book-vol-2-more-of-best store_origin: SG region: Singapore --- # The Web Designer's Idea Book, Vol. 2: More of the Best Themes, Trends and Styles in Website Design **Price:** S$47 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Web Designer's Idea Book, Vol. 2: More of the Best Themes, Trends and Styles in Website Design - **How much does it cost?** S$47 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sg](https://www.desertcart.sg/products/9319751-the-web-designers-idea-book-vol-2-more-of-best) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Web Design Inspiration at a Glance Volume 2 of The Web Designer's Idea Book includes more than 650 new websites arranged thematically, so you can easily find inspiration for your work. Author Patrick McNeil, creator of the popular web design blog designmeltdown.com and author of the original bestselling Web Designer's Idea Book , has cataloged thousands of sites, and showcases the latest and best examples in this book. The web is the most rapidly changing design medium, and this book offers an organized overview of what's happening right now. Sites are categorized by type, design element, styles and themes, structural styles, and structural elements. This new volume also includes a helpful chapter explaining basic design principles and how they can be applied online. Whether you're brainstorming with a coworker or explaining your ideas to a client, this book provides a powerful communication tool you can use to jump start your next project. Review: INSANELY good compilation of styles and inspiration - First, if you don't have the first one, you're missing out. They fit together perfectly... hopefully the start of a long series! The Web Designer's Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design Like the first volume, this is full of carefully picked examples of the best in modern web design. It's organized into very clever topics making it the perfect reference book. It's loaded with screenshots, screenshots, and more screenshots... just as before, but all new, and more recent. In this version, the screenshots are even larger and easier to pick up on detail and text. They've also included "Developer Notes" which I think are pretty insightful and in context. If you are involved in web design in any way (even if you're hiring other people to do it), this book will be super handy. The two editions are the same size and style... they're intended to be on the bookshelf together. With the two combined, there must be a thousand organized designs to look through. The amount of work that went into collecting such quality work without "filler" junk is astounding. I'm really impressed... if you can't tell! On the negative side: I'd personally prefer these came in large hardback coffee-table books. While maybe not as handy, it certainly would be great to have around the agency. Maybe after the 3rd edition, they should release a combined volume! Review: Design Layouts explored like no other 'inspiration' book! - What a great book. There are lots of 'inspiration' books for graphic and web designers out there. Most consist of a few great sites. Not bad, but "The Web Designers Idea Book" give you hundreds. But McNeil makes this flood of layout orderly by breaking sites into categories - first according to basic design principles (balance, contrast, document flow) and then by site type. An example of his detail is the entire chapter devoted to "404" error pages - this is some serious work on what makes a layout tick. The author also provides developer-centric counterpoint to his design discussion - some layouts, easy to create in Photoshop or Illustrator would be almost impossible to make work in HTML/CSS. The author also provides advice on how to use the examples, and discussions of larger design trends. If you want to explore the "classic" web 2.0 look check the earlier edition, but the examples here are cutting-edge. Also, nearly all work when you try the site URL! My only critique is labeling - some figures are not clearly labeled as being associated with text. It would also be great to have commentary on a larger proportion of the examples, but we'll need to pay the author more IMHO. If you're trying to learn web design, get it! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #628,169 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #313 in Web Design (Books) #1,049 in Graphic Design Techniques #2,416 in Commercial Graphic Design (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 107 Reviews | ## Images ![The Web Designer's Idea Book, Vol. 2: More of the Best Themes, Trends and Styles in Website Design - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81apsHVCE-L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ INSANELY good compilation of styles and inspiration *by T***E on September 2, 2010* First, if you don't have the first one, you're missing out. They fit together perfectly... hopefully the start of a long series! The Web Designer's Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design Like the first volume, this is full of carefully picked examples of the best in modern web design. It's organized into very clever topics making it the perfect reference book. It's loaded with screenshots, screenshots, and more screenshots... just as before, but all new, and more recent. In this version, the screenshots are even larger and easier to pick up on detail and text. They've also included "Developer Notes" which I think are pretty insightful and in context. If you are involved in web design in any way (even if you're hiring other people to do it), this book will be super handy. The two editions are the same size and style... they're intended to be on the bookshelf together. With the two combined, there must be a thousand organized designs to look through. The amount of work that went into collecting such quality work without "filler" junk is astounding. I'm really impressed... if you can't tell! On the negative side: I'd personally prefer these came in large hardback coffee-table books. While maybe not as handy, it certainly would be great to have around the agency. Maybe after the 3rd edition, they should release a combined volume! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Design Layouts explored like no other 'inspiration' book! *by P***Z on June 21, 2011* What a great book. There are lots of 'inspiration' books for graphic and web designers out there. Most consist of a few great sites. Not bad, but "The Web Designers Idea Book" give you hundreds. But McNeil makes this flood of layout orderly by breaking sites into categories - first according to basic design principles (balance, contrast, document flow) and then by site type. An example of his detail is the entire chapter devoted to "404" error pages - this is some serious work on what makes a layout tick. The author also provides developer-centric counterpoint to his design discussion - some layouts, easy to create in Photoshop or Illustrator would be almost impossible to make work in HTML/CSS. The author also provides advice on how to use the examples, and discussions of larger design trends. If you want to explore the "classic" web 2.0 look check the earlier edition, but the examples here are cutting-edge. Also, nearly all work when you try the site URL! My only critique is labeling - some figures are not clearly labeled as being associated with text. It would also be great to have commentary on a larger proportion of the examples, but we'll need to pay the author more IMHO. If you're trying to learn web design, get it! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good Idea *by P***. on March 28, 2011* Truth is I haven't read it and probably won't. I brought it for the inspiration when designing. It has great images to reference on different industy websites. 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