Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-Case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS
£16.95
Fantastic book. Highly recommend - This is a superbly written book that i would highly recommend to any developer, even veterans developers.The book shows you excellent best practice and efficient approaches to common design techniques. I ve built many websites and used CSS alot and i took so much away from this book.The book assumes prior CSS and webdesign experience so it s not for beginners, but everything is explained in detail so novices will still be able to follow.
You need this book - I have to say that I m suprised at one reviewer saying that it was confusing.Not at any point did I find it confusing.This book is a very very good example of how to write reusable bulletproof code. Obviously the code supplied from the website,as with ALL coding books, is not quite the same as the written examples, but hey! the point is that YOU write the code,not cut and paste.And yes he does point to others websites as examples of how they can be improved with DECENT code,bloody right, there s far too many people still writing sloppy xhtml and css,with sites that belong in the dark ages.Get with it! and get some standards.
Excellent book for intermediate web designers - A best practice CSS & XHTML book aimed at the intermediate-advanced web designer. If you re a beginner looking to learn CSS web design I suggest you look at The CSS Anthology or Web Standards Solutions books first, then come back to this book to polish your skills.The book dives straight into common approaches to everyday techniques. It makes an explanation as to why it may not be the best solution and suggests `a bullet-proof approach and justifies its reasoning. The book is one of few with colour illustrations which is nice and makes for clearer example images. The book concludes with a chapter demonstrating all the examples in a single website. There are some good techniques in this book and there s bound to be something new even for the seasoned CSS web designer.
The design bible for Web 2.0 - I bought this along with Dan s other book, Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook last year. It has been a constant companion since and really gave me a strong understanding of how to use CSS in some incredibly intelligent ways and avoid all the horrors of tables for layout. His approaches for fluid designs are particularly smart and I loved working through the examples and using the examples myself. A must-own book if you have any interest in web-design.
Superb easy to read book! - I used this book in conjuction with my course at University and it really helped me.This is an easy-to-read book which, unlike most computing/website design book is incredily dry, nor does it have a soporific effect on the reader! Quite a change from most.I would highly recommend this book to anyone. It is supberb, and has a flexiably structure that allows you to jump from place to place in the book, if you feel a paticular chapter is of interest to you.