Book Description
No matter how visually appealing or packed with content your Web site
is, it isn’t succeeding if it’s not reaching the widest possible audience.If you get this guide, you can be assured it will! By deconstructing a series of real-world Web sites, author and Web designer extraordinaire Dan Cederholm outlines 10 strategies for creating standards-based designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control—key components of every successful Web site.
Each chapter starts out with an example of what Dan refers to as an "unbulletproof" concept—an existing site that employs a traditional approach and its associated pitfalls.
Dan then deconstructs that approach, noting its downsides and then making the site over using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
.By the end of each chapter, you’ll have replaced traditional, bloated, inaccessible page components with lean markup and CSS.
The guide culminates with a chapter that pieces together all of the page components discussed in prior chapters into a single page template.
About the Author
Dan Cederholm
is a Web designer and author living in Massachusetts.He's the founder of SimpleBits, a tiny design studio.
A recognized expert in the field of standards-based Web design, Dan has worked with Google
, MTV, ESPN
, Fast Company, Blogger, Odeo, and others.He embraces flexible, adaptable design using Web standards through his design work, writing, and speaking.
Dan is the author of two best-selling books: Bulletproof Web Design (New Riders) and Web Standards Solutions
(Friends of ED).Dan also runs the popular weblog
SimpleBits, where he writes articles and commentary on the Web, technology, and life.He also plays a mean ukulele and occasionally wears a baseball cap.
Some Review
Modern web design is user-centered, accessible, and standards-based. In other words, it's completely different from the stuff we did in the 1990s. There are two vital aspects to designing with web standards: (1) understanding why
(2) knowing how
Know-how is what Dan Cederholm has in spades, and in this updated edition of his essential text, he shares that knowledge with humor and clarity.
Dan's is one of the smartest minds in CSS and HTML. He is internationally known as a deep and innovative coder. But his background is in design and production, working on real-world sites for no-nonsense businesses like Google, ESPN, and Fast Company, Inc.
This grounding in practical user interface design and daily production issues makes Dan a great teacher of CSS, because he never loses sight of the things designers want to do (not to mention the things designers' clients and bosses demand of them).
From multi-column layouts that stay crispy in milk, to maintaining fine control of web fonts and sizes without alienating users: just about every problem a modern web designer faces is examined, with solutions ranging from good to better to best.
This second edition includes everything you need to know about taking Internet Explorer 7 into account. Little else has changed. And that's as it should be, for this book is a classic. It belongs on every web designer's shelf.
By Jeffrey Zeldman, author, Designing With Web Standards 2nd Edition
Bulletproof - no bull
This book is simply essential for the serious web developer who cares about standards and web sites that just work. It is well presented and thorough. The knowledge it imparts is readily extended to new design challenges. Well done!
By S. Sullivan, (Northborough, MA USA)
This book is simply essential for the serious web developer who cares about standards and web sites that just work. It is well presented and thorough. The knowledge it imparts is readily extended to new design challenges. Well done!
By S. Sullivan, (Northborough, MA USA)
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