[thelist] "The Web Design Business Kit"

Stuart Young syoung at unitec.ac.nz
Mon Jul 19 19:20:11 CDT 2004


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Sitepoint offers "The Web Design Business Kit" by Brendon Sinclair 
(http://www.sitepoint.com/books/freelance1/) for sale. I've considered

purchasing it for some time and I'm wondering if any of you out there 
have had any personal experience with it. Was it worthwhile, or not?
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Personally I thought it was a complete rip-off - luckily my work paid
for it not me!

There is some interesting and useful material in there but it should be
in a small textbook retailing for $50 not in two large ring-binders
retailing for $200.

The second ring-binder is completely useless - the electronic versions
of the documents have only minor use and the paper versions are
pointless.

Here is what I wrote to Sitepoint when they asked for my feedback...
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I was a little bit dissapointed with the content, its mainly "business"
and not enough "web design business" - presumably I could have got the
same insights from a cheaper business textbook. I was a little bit
dissapointed with the documents in folder 2 - it seems to be all
letters. But really I'm very happy with the content.

My main complaint though is the over-sized and over-priced format which
I feel is unecessary - I would rather have a single bound book with
double sided printing, than an over-sized ring-binder. The ring-binder
is so stuffed with paper that it is difficult to turn the pages, and
easy to damage the pages while doing so. I draw your attention to page 7
- what a waste of trees!! I can get blank paper from my office thanks
very much.

The second ring binder of documents is fairly pointless - you can't do
anything with the (paper) documents aside from read them, so there is
not much need to have them - I would rather have a few pages in the
first book that explains what the documents are - maybe it could have
thumbnail pictures of the pages with descriptions and the file name of
the document on the CD.

Also, all the documents in folder 2 are out of date - there are
frequent references to 1999 and web technologies that were around then -
surely you should have updated them - for appearances sake if not
anything else.

Yes it was delivered very fast.
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cheers



Dr Stuart Young,       +64 (0)9-815 4321 Ex 8656
<syoung at unitec.ac.nz>     
Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Technology,
Unitec New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand
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