If you want to read all the classics in IT literature: pick up this book. It’s a fun read, and you’ll get through it in a few hours. If you want to learn something new: don’t pick up this book. That is assuming you’ve got your web-design basics alread: don’t clutter the home page, make clickable things look clickable, less is more, do user testing, etc. I didn’t regret buying and reading this book (on the contrary), but I wouldn’t recommend it either.