Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition)
by Jeffrey Zeldman
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Author: Jeffrey ZeldmanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-07-16
ISBN: 0321385551
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: New Riders
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- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
- Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS (2nd Edition)
- Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
Book Reviews of Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition)
Book Review: Read this one first
Summary: 5 Stars
The book, that is. Although this review is nice too.
By this date there are dozens of books about XHTML and CSS out there. I own two or three myself. Some of them are better *reference* works than this book.
But in a sense this is a generous update of the book that started it all, by the author who clearly did. And while I would guess that Zeldman spends a good share of mental energy tweaking XHTML/CSS layouts like the rest of us, he also thinks about the "why" of all of this more than anyone else I've read.
I don't know about you, but in those dark moments when your top margin just won't render correctly in an old version of Firefox on a Linux box, I like to remember *why* I'm bothering with standards in the first place. Zeldman helps me remember that this is good for me. In fact, not just good for *me*, but good for my clients, good for my web visitors, and heck--even good for the web development industry.
Even when he's talking about the mundane (and let's face it, there's a lot of mundane to talk about here), you can tell that his writing is suffused with a deep passion for elegant markup that not only does the job but lays down a foundation for maintainability and flexibility. Zeldman started writing HTML before most of us could spell it, so he's *been* there, man. If he says, "Do it this way," I think twice before going down a different path.
Start with this book. Read all of it and absorb both the details and the reasons, which Zeldman takes pains to explain. Open up a CSS reference once in a while when you need it. But you'll keep coming back to this book for inspiration and rededication.
Summary of Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition)
Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has updated his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. This new edition--now in full color--covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers since the first edition introduced the world to standards-based design. Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest, it remains an essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain. Readers will learn from Jeffrey's insights as he demonstrates how web standards are driving search engine friendliness (findability) and the Web 2.0 applications that have reinvigorated the medium and the online marketplace. Readers will discover new techniques to make CSS layouts work better across multiple browsers and ways to make web content more accessible. Designing with Web Standards is an AIGA Design Press book, published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with AIGA.Standards, argues Jeffrey Zeldman in Designing With Web Standards, are our only hope for breaking out of the endless cycle of testing that plagues designers hoping to support all possible clients. In this book, he explains how designers can best use standards--primarily XHTML and CSS, plus ECMAScript and the standard Document Object Model (DOM)--to increase their personal productivity and maximize the availability of their creations. Zeldman's approach is detailed, authoritative, and rich with historical context, as he is quick to explain how features of standards evolved. It's a fantastic education that any design professional will appreciate.
Zeldman is an idealist who devotes some of his book to explaining how much easier life would be if browser developers would just support standards properly (he's done a lot toward this goal in real life, as well). He is also a pragmatist, who recognizes that browsers implement standards differently (or partially, or not at all) and that it is the job of the Web designer to make pages work anyway. Thus, his book includes lots of explicit and tightly focused tips (with code) that have to do with bamboozling non-compliant browsers into behaving as they should, without tripping up more compliant browsers. There's lots of coverage of design and testing tools that can aid in the creation of good-looking, standards-abiding documents. --David Wall
Topics covered: Why Web standards (such as XHTML, CSS, ECMAScript, and DOM) are good for everyone, and why site designers and browser makers should move towards standards compliance.
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