Book Description
As the Web evolves to incorporate new standards and the latest browsers
offer new possibilities for creative design, the art of creating Web sites is also changing.Few Web designers
are experienced programmers, and as a result, working with semantic markup and CSS can create roadblocks to achieving truly beautiful designs using all the resources available.Add to this the pressures of presenting exceptional design to clients and employers, without compromising efficient workflow, and the challenge deepens for those working in a fast-paced environment.
As someone who understands these complexities firsthand, author and designer
Andy Clarke offers visual designers a progressive approach to creating artistic, usable, and accessible sites using transcendent CSS.In this groundbreaking book, you’ll discover how to implement highly original designs through visual demonstrations of the creative possibilities using markup and CSS.
You’ll learn to use a new design workflow, build prototypes
that work well for designers and all team members, use grids effectively, visualize markup, and discover every phase of the transcendent design process, from working with the latest browsers to incorporating CSS3 to collaborating with team members effectively, and much more.Written and edited by Web design and CSS luminaries Andy Clarke and Molly E. Holzschlag, Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design
- Uses a visual approach to help you learn coding techniques
- Includes numerous examples of world-class Web sites, photography, and other inspirations that give designers ideas for visualizing their code
- Offers early previews of technical advances in new Web browsers and of the emerging CSS3 specification.
About the Author
Andy Clarke is an internationally known speaker, designer, and consultant focusing on creative, accessible Web development
.Andy is passionate about design and passionate about Web standards
, bridging the gap between design and code.He regularly trains designers and developers in the creative applications of Web standards.
Andy has written articles for A List Apart Magazine and contributed to the CSS Zen Garden.
Outside of his studio, Andy is a member of the Web Standards Project.
Author, instructor, and Web designer Molly E. Holzschlag has written over 30 books on Web design and development.
She’s been coined "one of the greatest digerati" and deemed one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web.
Molly is also Group Lead of Web Standards Project and frequent lecturer on Web design and development around the world.
Some Review
CSS A new way of thinking
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Voices That Matter) is not so much as a "How To" as it is a "Why To" book. Andy Clarke is an evangelist for a new and better way of designing for the web. There is an ever growing need to present content in the most effective and appealing way for a verity of different browsers. Not everyone uses the same browser and different browsers don't do implement CSS functionality the same way. Plus older browsers may not be compatible with CSS in current use.
Andy Clarke's premise is that instead of developing the layout first and then fitting the content in to the layout, start by organizing the content first and then implement your layout design on top of your content. This way, the content will always be presented in an organized, effective and appealing way no matter what browser the content is being display on.
By stanley millhorn
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Voices That Matter) is not so much as a "How To" as it is a "Why To" book. Andy Clarke is an evangelist for a new and better way of designing for the web. There is an ever growing need to present content in the most effective and appealing way for a verity of different browsers. Not everyone uses the same browser and different browsers don't do implement CSS functionality the same way. Plus older browsers may not be compatible with CSS in current use.
Andy Clarke's premise is that instead of developing the layout first and then fitting the content in to the layout, start by organizing the content first and then implement your layout design on top of your content. This way, the content will always be presented in an organized, effective and appealing way no matter what browser the content is being display on.
By stanley millhorn
I'd Say... this book is wonderfull!
I bought this book under an advice I took from a blog... I thought... what the heck... I know CSS, but the plain vanilla... I have read a technical book till the end (took me almost a year) and I need something different.
I was surprised...this one is a blast to read, simply put, a delightful reading, even to take it to bed :) (Depending on the company)
Great visual quality, simple examples, and the usual obnoxious tone I tend to admire in brits, even though they don't really have the need for it ;)
If Andy Clarke is as "direct" in is classes as he is in the book, then his seminars must also be a blast to tend to, the kind of classes you don't take notes...because you don't need to.
Finally I understood what meaningful and semantic CSS are... and found out that I was applying all the technicalities correctly, but skipping the basics of its usage (I tend to confuse this word with sausage) all the way!
Attention: Too many pictures of food... in bed they tend to produce some undesired urges to get up and raid the refrigerator with strange results (Depending on the company)
By Joao P. C. Carvalhinho, (Lisbon, Portugal)
I bought this book under an advice I took from a blog... I thought... what the heck... I know CSS, but the plain vanilla... I have read a technical book till the end (took me almost a year) and I need something different.
I was surprised...this one is a blast to read, simply put, a delightful reading, even to take it to bed :) (Depending on the company)
Great visual quality, simple examples, and the usual obnoxious tone I tend to admire in brits, even though they don't really have the need for it ;)
If Andy Clarke is as "direct" in is classes as he is in the book, then his seminars must also be a blast to tend to, the kind of classes you don't take notes...because you don't need to.
Finally I understood what meaningful and semantic CSS are... and found out that I was applying all the technicalities correctly, but skipping the basics of its usage (I tend to confuse this word with sausage) all the way!
Attention: Too many pictures of food... in bed they tend to produce some undesired urges to get up and raid the refrigerator with strange results (Depending on the company)
By Joao P. C. Carvalhinho, (Lisbon, Portugal)
Web Design External links
"Web Design" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"CSS" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Web Design Agency"
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: 
