*****= An all-time favorite
**** = Outstanding
***
= Above average
**
= Enjoyable
*
= Good, with reservations
***Cheap Web Tricks
Build and Promote a Successful Web Site Without
Spending a Dime
by Anne Martinez
Reviewed October 2, 2003.
Osborne/McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001. 371 pages.
Available for $13.99 in paperback on Amazon.com
This book attracted me because of course I’m building a hobbyist’s website,
for the love of it, without a big prospect of making money. Since
I’m paying for web hosting, I need to cut corners everywhere I can, so that
this hobby won’t break me.
This book also tells the basics of using HTML to set up a web site, but
it wasn’t nearly as specific, and so not as helpful as Learning Web Design. About
half of the book is taken up with promoting your website inexpensively.
I’ll look at that more now that I’ve got my pages how I want them.
Learning Web Design doesn’t
have any information about promoting the website, so the information in
this book will be helpful for this next step.
This book is helpful and informative, but would be a little more useful
for someone with something to sell or someone more intent on making money.
Book Reviews by Sondra
Eklund