In fact it had all the hallmarks of a serious and well thought through publication. But in life you should never trust a book by its cover. This is particularly true of books. I won't give you its title, for fear the author will send out a rampaging horde of trained para-legals, but it was claimed to be about web design and I am 45.99 the lighter and can prove that it isn't. Page design is a layout skill.
Web design is about content, context, navigation and usability.
Page design is what you usually get when you pay a student 500 to knock you up a web site. Soon after I dragged those 901 pages back home I received an email from a realtor in America who asked me to look at her web site, which she thought needed a little brightening up. But Probably Won't 1. No honestly, I'm serious. The first question a web designer should ask you is why you want a web site.