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Review: I think the only redeeming grace of this work is that it will perpetuate the dirth of me-too boring sites put up by large companies who seek only to follow what other large companies are doing, and who tend to buy into the myth of meaningless stature afforded to plastic pundits who tend to use politics over talent to sell their "status". In that regard, it will afford genuine opportunities for young and/or creative new web designers to have their work stand out.Nielsen set up the industry for this book with definite genius by making his own web site completely plain and, therefore, "safe" from measurement against anyone's standards, save for beauty, and perhaps readability. The failure of the great .dotcoms could very well have something to do with the fact that, in their quest to be "usable", thay have instead become uninspiring. After reading this book, I feel compelled to make a thousand web sites, each with navigation on the right side of the page.Evan Andrews
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