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Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS, Second Edition (2nd Edition) [Kindle Edition]

Dan Cederholm (Author)

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No matter how visually appealing or content-packed a Web site may be, if it's not adaptable to a variety of situations and reaching the widest possible audience, it isn't really succeeding. In Bulletproof Web Desing, author and Web designer extraordinaire, Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control--key components of every sucessful site. Each chapter starts out with an example of an unbulletproof site one that employs a traditional HTML-based approach which Dan then deconstructs, pointing out its limitations. He then gives the site a make-over using XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), so you can see how to replace bloated code with lean markup and CSS for fast-loading sites that are accessible to all users. Finally, he covers several popular fluid and elastic-width layout techniques and pieces together all of the page components discussed in prior chapters into a single-page template.

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Print Length: 312 pages
Publisher: New Riders Press; 2 edition (9 Aug 2007)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B004USQMXC
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful

Something for Everyone 20 Dec 2005

By K. Dawson

Format:Paperback

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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Excellent book for intermediate web designers 15 Sep 2007

By Sean Johnson

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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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A must for developers, designers, and hobbyists. 23 Aug 2005

By B. Eaton

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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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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 8 months ago by kenw

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 9 months ago by Ed Bernard

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 15 months ago by Jamie Hallam

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 24 months ago by Vignaux

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

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

Bulletproof Web design

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

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

Published on 2 May 2009 by J. Chaytor

Fantastic book. Highly recommend

This is a superbly written book that i would highly recommend to any developer, even veterans developers. Read more

Published on 16 Dec 2008 by D. Chaplin

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. Read more

Published on 20 May 2008 by Milton Fontaine

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