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Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-Case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS [Paperback]

Dan Cederholm (Author)

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Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: New Riders; 1 edition (28 July 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0321346939
ISBN-13: 978-0321346933
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 18.8 x 1.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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No matter how visually appealing or packed with content your Web site is, it isn’t succeeding if it’s not reaching the widest possible audience. If you get this guide, you can be assured it will! By deconstructing a series of real-world Web sites, author and Web designer extraordinaire Dan Cederholm outlines 10 strategies for creating standards-based designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control—key components of every successful Web site. Each chapter starts out with an example of what Dan refers to as an “unbulletproof” concept—an existing site that employs a traditional approach and its associated pitfalls. Dan then deconstructs that approach, noting its downsides and then making the site over using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). By the end of each chapter, you’ll have replaced traditional, bloated, inaccessible page components with lean markup and CSS. The guide culminates with a chapter that pieces together all of the page components discussed in prior chapters into a single page template.

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Dan Cederholm is an award-winning Web designer as well as the founder of the design and development consulting firm SimpleBits.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Something for Everyone, 20 Dec 2005

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Another fine book from Dan Cederholm. This time around he divvies a typical web page down to its components - text, navigation, boxes and rows and the layout itself and explains and demonstrates the most bulletproof way of implementing them in a standards-compliant way.

In each chapter he'll pluck a real-world example to deconstruct, tell you why it's not bulletproof and offer a rebuild in a very easy to follow manner using XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets. He'll then explain why his solution is bulletproof.

There's something here for everyone, I consider myself pretty knowledgeable on the CSS front but I've said "Ohhhh, that's neat" a few times already (I'm hopping around the book). Which is another point, it's very accessible in that respect - no reading chapters 1 to 4 before tackling the issues presented in chapter 5 (hypothetical use of numbers).

Beginner or expert alike, I think you'll like this book a lot.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for intermediate web designers, 15 Sep 2007

Sean Johnson "www.seanjohnson.net" (England) - See all my reviews
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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must for developers, designers, and hobbyists., 23 Aug 2005

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If you design or develop web sites then you really have to read this book. You may, as I did, think that you know a thing or two about putting together a website. Well this book in combination with Mark Pilgrim's dive into accessibility guide, and Dave Shea's CSS Zen Garden, have taught me otherwise.

While other texts explain the why, this explains the how - and it does it very well too. This is a hands-on book that takes a number of websites, points out what is wrong with them, and re-creates them using web standards. That is not to say the book preaches in a condescending tone about standards - it simply points out why the bad way is bad and the good way is good. It then does what so many standards evangelists fail to do and actually give practical guidance on how to improve websites.

Even if your eyes haven't been opened to the negative effects of poorly marked-up and low-accessibility websites you will not regret buying this.

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4.0 out of 5 stars I bought the wrong book!
This book must be great for those web designers who want their pages to be presented as designed on all the various web browers available. Read more

Published 5 months ago by kenw

5.0 out of 5 stars The clue is in the name (Bullet Proof Web Design)
This is both an easy to read volume on the everyday skills needed to make good your web pages.
While at the same time being informative about the rudiments of constructing... Read more

Published 5 months ago by Ed Bernard

5.0 out of 5 stars Cederholm the Hero
Cederholm is the hero of the web? His book for some maybe hard to grasp? But I fount it interesting and let me glued. Read more

Published 11 months ago by Jamie Hallam

5.0 out of 5 stars Css, Html une approche interessante
Ce livre vous apporte une très bonne base sur le bon code en Html 4 et css. A lire

Published 20 months ago by Vignaux

5.0 out of 5 stars Great intermetiate resource
Dan Cederholm's book is a great read for intermediate web designers and developers. I note the latter as one of the book's main themes, the separation of content and presentation,... Read more

Published on 9 Nov 2009 by doubi

3.0 out of 5 stars Talk about code bloat...pot... kettle... black
While in general this is a good, well written - and intentioned - book, the fact is its contents could have easily be laid out in a book half its size. Read more

Published on 26 July 2009 by J. Mclaughlin

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This is a very good book, which addresses accessibility, flexibility and a whole lot more. It has examples which shows a sample site, and a rework of the site (bulletproof... Read more

Published on 29 Jun 2009 by Jackie O

5.0 out of 5 stars A jolly good read in my opinion
As someone who is new to XHTML/CSS I bought this book (along with "CSS: The Missing Manual" and "The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks") as I'm soon to convert a... Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book. Highly recommend
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