The phrase "With Adobe Flash" that starts the review is orthogonal to the book and its content, which never anywhere mentions either "Adobe" or "Flash" as far as I can tell, and is unrelated to the rest of the review. The whole thing would be far better if it just started with "It’s possible to quickly get a pretty web site up and running", despite the somewhat awkward wording, since it's got everyone off on an unrelated tangent. (Neither of the words "Adobe" or "Flash" are found by an Amazon "search within this book", in the Table of Contents or Index of the book, or in a search of the free first-chapter PDF linked in the review.)
The review submitted here is identical to a customer review by the same person on Amazon. It's not bad as customer reviews go, aside from the irrelevant lead-in mentioning Flash, which is now thankfully dead for delivering actual content on most websites. Since this is one of many web content strategy books available, in addition to related books on user experience, usability and information architecture, I'm not sure how newsworthy it is, though prompting clients to think seriously about content strategy, etc. is definitely something all web designers, developers and project managers should be doing, as there are still far too many pretty(-ish) sites lacking readable, useful, or well-organized content.
What does Flash have to do with this book? (Score:2)
The phrase "With Adobe Flash" that starts the review is orthogonal to the book and its content, which never anywhere mentions either "Adobe" or "Flash" as far as I can tell, and is unrelated to the rest of the review. The whole thing would be far better if it just started with "It’s possible to quickly get a pretty web site up and running", despite the somewhat awkward wording, since it's got everyone off on an unrelated tangent. (Neither of the words "Adobe" or "Flash" are found by an Amazon "search within this book", in the Table of Contents or Index of the book, or in a search of the free first-chapter PDF linked in the review.)
The review submitted here is identical to a customer review by the same person on Amazon. It's not bad as customer reviews go, aside from the irrelevant lead-in mentioning Flash, which is now thankfully dead for delivering actual content on most websites. Since this is one of many web content strategy books available, in addition to related books on user experience, usability and information architecture, I'm not sure how newsworthy it is, though prompting clients to think seriously about content strategy, etc. is definitely something all web designers, developers and project managers should be doing, as there are still far too many pretty(-ish) sites lacking readable, useful, or well-organized content.