Montana, I liked your analogy to the "choose your own adventure". These type of website are very helpful when trying to complete a process, such as doing taxes or figuring IRA accounts.
Sounds like we all liked chapter 11 better than some of the others we have read thus far.

Chapter 11: Corporate Web Site

Overall, I found this chapter pretty interesting. I liked the descriptions of the five basic web site categories, and I was trying to determine what category the web site I am designing falls under. (I decided that it is educational...just in case you were wondering). I also enjoyed seeing the comparision in the approach to the T. Rowe Pice home page over time. It is interesting to see how the visible change in focus for web sites as time goes by. On the CD (which really just repeated most of the information in the book while adding a few new things), I thought it was interesting to see the way the web site provides the user to choose where to go. It reminded me of the Choose Your Own Adventure books. I actually used a web site like this over the weekend. I was filing my taxes on the TaxAct web site. I didn't realize how cool it was that I was able to choose options on every page until after reading this chapter. It is pretty nifty!

Chapter 10: Case Study--Writing a Marekting Web Site

Truthfully, I thought this chapter was kind of boring. I don't know if it was because of the example he used or just because he went into more information than I thought I needed, but I had a hard time reading through it. Especially parts like the "Production Background" section where Garrand seems to be giving a play-by-play of the situation with unimportant facts. ("...Ken Jones did the programming and technical development, and Laurie Styrsko did the photographs." Why should I care? I have no idea who those people even are.)On the positive side of this chapter, however, I did feel like I was getting an example of the upcoming assignment. It even talked about the flowchart or sitemap. So, in that way the chapter was very helpful, though rather hard to get through.

Chapter 8: Informational Multimedia and Web Achitecture

I thought this was a very interesting chapter. I had to re-read most of the website structure definitions in order to understand what they were saying, but I don't know how much of that I can blame on the author and how much of the blame I have to take for my mind wandering. :) By far, my favorite thing about each of the definitions was the examples that the author would give to relate what he just said with a common thing in the real world. It made sense in a weird way. :) I was extremely grateful for the pictures/diagrams as well. Without them I definitely would have been lost.