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Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series) (Paperback) (平装)
by Dan Cederholm
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Web design, Markup & style, Computer & internet |
| Market price: ¥ 468.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
An excellent book contrasts the old way of designing web pages with new while, showing the reader the advantages of using web standards. |
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Adam (MSL quote), USA
<2007-07-03 00:00>
For just under a year now I have been dipping into the online community of advocates for the many uses of CSS. As someone who is a graphic designer and part time web designer it can sometimes be a pain to find that mix of visual, structural, and functional design needed to take your portfolio and skills to the next level.
This book takes a very clear approach to laying out many paths to a single, or similiar, solutions. I think a big problem with all of us "non gurus" who are trying to get into CSS is knowing whether a tag or style is compatible with the "popular browsers" and if we are going to hand off the project to our clients full of holes and subsequently full of complaints. You can trust Dan as a professional who lays down a number of approaches that can be used, none of which are totally obselete and are going to leave you with an unhappy client.
Another great element of this book is the value it adds to your work. When you put these skills to work on your sites, your not only creating visually great work, but your also making your work compatible on all levels (hand helds, multiple browsers, screen readers, non CSS compatible browsers)and the book even shows why using specific techniques will optimize your code for search engines (and anyone worth thier weight in gold knows how important search engine optimization is for clients).
There are alot of great reasons to fork over your money on this book. As I believe I heard someone mention before, if you have basic CSS knowledge and this book you will be ready to rock. Just dont pick it up expecting to learn CSS from the ground up. For those who have that basic working knowledge, this is the next step in your CSS revolution! |
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David (MSL quote), USA
<2007-07-03 00:00>
Dan Cederholm runs a company called SimpleBits, and that's the philosophy that runs through this book: keep things simple. Don't let that deceive you, though. Simple doesn't mean plain or boring. In fact, Dan offers some very elegant solutions to common problems - styling navigation lists, pull quotes, and table-free layout. He also shows you how to style tables with CSS, as well as exploring uses for some of the lesser-known semantic tags for text layout.
The book is targeted mainly at web designers who haven't yet taken the plunge with CSS, or who are finding it hard to get to grips with. By taking things in small bites, he shows that CSS doesn't have to be complicated; and he warns against the disease that seems to affect many new converts to CSS - becoming "class happy", where classes are liberally spread through web pages with greater abandon than old-style font tags. Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards argues the case with passion. Dan Cederholm just quietly gets on with the job - and very effectively, too. Each chapter is short, and to the point. I enjoyed it thorougly. |
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Berg (MSL quote), USA
<2007-07-03 00:00>
I am very pleased with this book. For a while now I've been learning CSS by looking at the code of webpages I liked, and I picked up a lot of bad habits. This book helped me understand how useful coding to the standards can be. I have gone back and completely redesigned my site with the help of this book; now, in the future, I am confident that site-wide changes will be easy and painless.
The converstational tone of the book was a welcome change from the more technical tone of other books on programming subjects. One of my favorite little moments was under the subheading "A cite for curious eyes" (about the cite tag) and he writes: "Getting tired of the corny headings yet? Oh, good. Neither am I." That's a good example of the light tone that helps make the more technical information easy to digest.
I really enjoyed reading this book, and I know my webpages now and in the future will benefit greatly from the knowledge I got from reading it. I highly recommend it to those who know a bit about CSS, but want to know more. Keep Google handy any time you want to find out more about a certain tag or something that he assumes you know if you aren't sure about it; there were just a few I had trouble with, but a quick search on google cleared it up for me quickly. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-07-03 00:00>
Cederholm's book is a definite read. The language is straight-forward & constructive & the overall layout of the book is intuitive. The book is filled with everything from practical to advance tips for pushing design and functionality. At a time when more and more programming whizes are putting their skills into words, you wish all could be as effective and solution-oriented. Put simply (the author's mantra), the book is a buy. You won't be disappointed. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-07-03 00:00>
This book was an amazing resource for me. Since buying it, it's been in my messenger bag to ensure a quick reference at both work and at home.
This is a perfect book for a web-designer that has been toying with css for a while and is ready to make the jump to full-fleged web standards.
Like Zeldman's "Designing w/ Web Standards", this book reads more like a conversation than a tech book. It explains things easily and not in a condescending way.
I particularly liked the way this book gives you real-world explanations of taking what you are *used* to doing and showing you how to better do it with css. It's very clear and makes the transition much easier.
My only complaint from this book was that CSS Positioning was not covered very lightly. It would have been nice to have expanded on this area bit more.
I can't recommend this book enough. |
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Dielman (MSL quote), USA
<2007-07-03 00:00>
Easy to read but very informative. This book is great for beginners and seasoned web designers alike. I've been designing basic web sites for quite a while using the dreaded tables and transparent gif tricks not realizing the great potential of CSS based layouts. Wonderful book! Can't wait to move onto Bulletproof Web Design! |
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Ted (MSL quote), USA
<2007-07-03 00:00>
This book is not a reference, nor a comprehensive tutorial on XHTML / CSS. It shows through examples the advantages of these techniques without getting on a soapbox and preaching for pages on end. Ideally, you would have this book, and a comprehensive tutorial/reference book. |
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Michael (MSL quote), USA
<2007-07-03 00:00>
To begin producing web solutions when 3.0 and 4.0 browsers were the standard much of my formal knowledge and experiential instincts had remained grounded there. Eventually ASP.NET 1.0 was released and I forgot that world for a time and went out-of-the-box. But by the time I decided to balance the tradeoffs between controls and manually input markup, the browser landscape had changed quite a bit. You got Firefox and Safari as well as much improved versions of more senior offerings.
It wasn't enough to use MasterPages, Themes, and Skins for my latest project. I also wanted to be XHTML compliant and reduce HTML and CSS footprint. In other words, I was shooting for smaller, cheaper, faster. So I checked out an article on A List Apart called "Thinking Outside the Grid". Although I didn't want agree with everything said (one indicating that I am that old), I did start to wonder if there was a better way. The better way I considered was how to lower overall complexity while boosting elegance compared the same solution in older technologies. Using the insights in the book can better position solutions for a wider array of presentation types.
By properly adopting the guidelines presented here, I significantly reduced extraneous markup I would have written to minimize strain on bandwidth. It also provided the grounding needed to migrate away from certain uses of server controls and better leverage non-programmatic techniques. I was pleasantly surprised at how much more effective CSS can be applied when using you properly structure the markup. Coupled with the W3C Validator on the web, you can arrive at some great finishing touches on the solution's markup specification. |
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Boris (MSL quote), USA
<2007-07-03 00:00>
I really liked this book and consider it to be in a class for itself.
I especially liked the way the author discussed different methods of solving the same problem, highlighting the pro's and con's of each solution, then summarising in a easily understood conclusion, accompanied by clear examples.
I recommend this book for professionals first, although it of course could be quite useful for amateurs as well. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-07-03 00:00>
This is the best CSS book that I've used. The topics are laid out very clearly. I love that the book is succinct and I can delve right into the examples and apply them right away to my website. This book has really helped me to write more efficient code and to design more visually pleasing websites. It has great explanations about pros and cons of different methods of code implementation. I highly recommend this book to designers who are new to CSS. You should start with this book. |
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