For my non-Dutch readers this post will not be very interesting. I’ll review the Dutch book Webdesign Rules!, written by Ruben Bos. This book helps people to find the good directions in the web development world.

The whole book is aimed to make clear for everyone who doesn’t make web sites, how a good web site works. Moreover, how to find a good company to build such a site. This also includes ways to check your current web site.

A good web site, according to the book, is a good combination of content, marketing, usability and technique. But how good is this book for people who make web sites? We know how to do that, or how to get to know how to do that, don’t we know?

I’d say yes. For me, nothing is really new in this book. But the best part of this book is to describe in a few words what a web site needs, to make the client happy. Everything is very clearly written, and the illustrations are sometimes exactly right. We, as developers, can better assist clients through the whole process.

There are no real downsides of this book. Maybe you could be disappointed about how fast you’ll have read it. But in my opinion that a very good point about his book.

The book can be ordered via the website, and I’ve heard also in book stores soon.