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Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series) (Paperback) (Paperback)
by Dan Cederholm
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Author: Dan Cederholm
Publisher: friends of ED; 1st ed. 2004. Corr. 4th printing edition (June 7, 2004)
Pub. in: June, 2004
ISBN: 1590593812
Pages: 252
Measurements: 9 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01017
Other information: 1st ed. 2004. Corr. 4th printing edition
ISBN-13: 978-1590593813
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Web Standards Solutions is an essential book for anyone who designs websites with CSS or wants to learn how. It's a solid book on CSS, and perfect for someone who is familiar with the basics of how CSS styling works, but is looking to learn how to use it effectively in real-world designs. But while this is an excellent book on CSS, it is a groundbreaking book on HTML.
This is a perfect second or third book on HTML. Everyone who works with HTML ought to have a nice big reference book, such as O'Reilly's HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide. Many people also have some kind of "Learn HTML Fast!" book. After you've worked your way through those and understand how HTML works, Web Standards Solutions is the book to have. It won't teach you how to write a web page: it will teach you to write a better web page. This book goes through repeated examples of how you might want to format some piece of information - a list, a heading, a quotation, emphasized text - and goes through various possible ways of marking it up. Cederholm also has a lot of coverage of useful semantic tags you may not be familiar with, such as dictionary lists, fieldsets, table captions, and citations, as well as discussion about how to use semantic tags to make your site more accessible to alternative browsers, such as screen readers for the blind and older browsers that don't support the latest design techniques.
The whole first section of the book is focused on producing effective semantic markup, along with some good examples demonstrating how that markup can be styled in various ways. The second section then goes on to cover additional CSS topics that don't require any changes the underlying content. Separate stylesheets for printing, producing an overall page layout, elaborate text styles, and replacing text with images are all covered.
For advanced users, it's an excellent reference to extend existing markup knowledge in different creative and technical directions. This book recommends standards-based markup practices to achieve various results within different contexts, from simple padding and floating to Fahrner Image Replacement. Much of the content is rehashed and rearranged from the Simplequiz feature of his website, which is a great way to contrast current presentational "tag soup" conventions with proper structural markup.
In short, it's a quick read and well worth the cost at any skill level.
- From quoting Norris
Target readers:
Web designers, programmers, project managers, and anyone else creating a Web site.
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Dan is an award-winning web designer, consultant, and author who specializes in designing and building sites with web standards.
Throughout 2003, Dan became well known for his redesigns of the websites for Fast Company and Inc. using standards-compliant methods, while pushing the limits of CSS.
Dan also runs the popular weblog SimpleBits, for which he writes articles and commentary on the web, technology, and life. His consulting firm of the same name focuses on applying the methods found throughout this book in creating simplistic and attractive interfaces.
Speaking at conferences such as SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX, Dan shares his simplistic approach to web design and development while spreading the word on the standards-based markup and style techniques he's collected.
He lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with his wife, Kerry, two cats, and one gecko.
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From the publisher
Web Standards are the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers are using the same technology syntax. It is important that these implementations are the same throughout the Web, otherwise it becomes a messy proprietary place, and lacks consistency. These standards also allow content to be more compatible with multiple different viewing devices, such as screen readers for people with vision impairments, cell phones, PDFs, etc. HTML, XML, and CSS are all such technologies.
This book contains questions and answers on markup and style topics for Web Standards. It explores the multiple ways you can handle a situation when building with Web Standards – and the advantages and disadvantages of those methods. Additionally, each chapter goes a step further, with "extra credit" sections to give the reader extra tips and tricks based on the topic. The reader is empowered to make better decisions based on well-rounded information.
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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! |
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. |
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. |
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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