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Subject:Re: QUERY: which intranet book? From:"Nyman, Rikki" <Rikki -dot- Nyman -at- ALLIEDSIGNAL -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 5 Jun 1998 09:59:00 -0700
Cassandra wrote:
"The best book I've seen on internet design is "Creating Killer
Websites" by
David Siegel. "
I generally keep my opinions to myself ( ;-) , but I really don't like
Siegel from an structural standpoint. While there is much graphic
design info in Siegel's book, he never mentions audience or purpose.
His third-generation architecture uses metaphores and a "tunnel"
architecture that are absolutely inappropriate for intranet site
development.
I just finished a class in programming for the web. The instructor, a
programmer, used Siegel's book as his blueprint. A more god-awful site
can not be imagined, but he was absolutely faithful to Siegel's
architecture.
Much better books are the ones already noted: Bernard's "The Corporate
Intranet" and the O'Reilly book "Information Architecture for the World
Wide Web".
If you are going to use Siegel, take it with a grain of salt. But then,
you all would have figured that out!
