- Paperback: 456 pages
- Publisher: New Riders; 1 edition (14 May 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0735712018
- ISBN-13: 978-0735712010
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 17.5 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
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You code. And code. And code. You build only to rebuild. You focus on making your site compatible with almost every browser or wireless device ever put out there. Then along comes a new device or a new browser, and you start all over again.
You can get off the merry-go-round.
It's time to stop living in the past and get away from the days of spaghetti code, insanely nested table layouts, tags, and other redundancies that double and triple the bandwidth of even the simplest sites. Instead, it's time for forward compatibility.
Isn't it high time you started designing with web standards?
Standards aren't about leaving users behind or adhering to inflexible rules. Standards are about building sophisticated, beautiful sites that will work as well tomorrow as they do today. You can't afford to design tomorrow's sites with yesterday's piecemeal methods.
Jeffrey teaches you to:- Slash design, development, and quality assurance costs (or do great work in spite of constrained budgets)
- Deliver superb design and sophisticated functionality without worrying about browser incompatibilities
- Set up your site to work as well five years from now as it does today
- Redesign in hours instead of days or weeks
- Welcome new visitors and make your content more visible to search engines
- Stay on the right side of accessibility laws and guidelines
- Support wireless and PDA users without the hassle and expense of multiple versions
- Improve user experience with faster load times and fewer compatibility headaches
- Separate presentation from structure and behavior, facilitating advanced publishing workflows
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Jeffrey Zeldman¿s personal web site (www.zeldman.com) has welcomed more than 16 million visitors and is read daily by thousands in the web design and development industry. In 1998, Zeldman co-founded The Web Standards Project (www.webstandards.org), a grassroots coalition of web designers and developers that helped end the Browser Wars by persuading Microsoft and Netscape to support the same technologies in their browsers.
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An equal opportunity disease afflicts nearly every site now on the web, from the humblest personal home pages to the multimillion-dollar sites of corporate giants. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I wasn't quite expecting this book to be so big, after checking out Jeffrey Zeldman's homepage (zeldman.com) and reading the other reviews on this title from Amazon I had the impression it would be an plane-English drop-in-reference style book, but it isn't; its more like a school text book, which, depending on how you look at it can be good or a bad thing.
The first few chapters are about what CSS really is, and how Zeldman thinks it should/must be used, most of the time he is right, personally on occasions I find his ideas a little lecturing.
If you are a web designer who is already aware that CSS and CSS-P is the way forward for the internet, then the first third of the book will not be so useful.
After this Zeldman goes into a mini project, which is split into two chapters with another lecture-style chapter between. I find this project and the chapters after are the meet and potatoes of the book, they are inspiring, functional and efficient.
On a final note, I found some of Zeldman's humour and jokes really not funny, maybe its me, but I got the feeling he was trying too hard, apart from this little artistic disappointment the book is really useful, I will recommend this book to any mid-level web designers!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Zeldman does a good job of persuading one that web standards are the future for interoperability and accessibility. The only thing (I suppose) that lets the book down is a dearth of references (a few choice ones are recommended) and only two concrete design "walkthrough" examples. However he mentions books with more references and, hey, it's the web! We can find a plethora of ref's online.
The books is quite an easy read with some nice historical discussion and ought to be accessible by anyone with a reasonable amount of experience with HTML4 (such as taught in one undergraduate module on web design or books like "Teach yourself HTML in 24 hours"). It's not a full-on CSS book, but does a nice job of introducing some CSS basics. What's nice is that it is not a "tables are bad, pure CSS is good" evangelising book but discusses and approves of transitional approaches.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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I don't often relentlessly urge people to "buy this book!", but Jeffrey Zeldman's 'Designing with Web Standards' is one of the best web design books I've read in ages.
It's well-argued and contains easy to follow (I'd say 'idiot-proof', but...). Follow the guidelines in this book and not only will your web pages be forward compatible (compatible with standards-driven browsers of the future), but they'll also be more widely accessible and, most importantly, they'll load much, much faster.
A week with this book and I was building pages one quarter the size of my originals (i.e. four times faster loading). Again: Buy this book!
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Tedious history lesson arrogantly presented with irksome attempts at...
Some useful technical content can be extracted from the later half of the book, but, to me the style is irritating, long winded and presented at oddly varying levels of background... Read more
Published 1 month ago by KSA
eye opener
A great book indeed! If you're beginning to work in the web, Zeldman will show you the way.
PS: the package didn't arrived 100% perfect, that's why I rated it 4 stars.
PS: the package didn't arrived 100% perfect, that's why I rated it 4 stars.
Published 10 months ago by danielcorreia
AMAZING
I am currently learning web design and this is my first book. I have read 83 paqges in one day and love it so far...It is fantastic.
Published 16 months ago by Jamie Hallam
At last!
Still a beginner, I was looking for a book that could put me straight on where to concentrate my efforts in order to turn out respectable markup. Read more
Published 20 months ago by B. Adams
A must have
This is absolutely a must have if you are a web developer. No matter if you are designer or programmer or both, you really need to learn the basics about standards and this book... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Eden
Awesome for beginners, very good for those more seasoned
Pros:
- You come away with an excellent understanding of web standards in every context where they can be applied as well as the reasons for their importance - this book does... Read more
- You come away with an excellent understanding of web standards in every context where they can be applied as well as the reasons for their importance - this book does... Read more
Published on 6 Mar 2010 by Ines Teles
Get to the crux of the matter...
"Designing with web standards" follows very honourable principles and encourages the web design community to embrace standards and follow them, in the hope that we can all use any... Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2010 by O. Kinne
Designing with Web Standards (Third Edition)
Having previously purchased the Second Edition and enjoyed it immensely, I was glad to see the Third Edition published. Once again I found this book enjoyable and easy to read. Read more
Published on 3 Dec 2009 by Richard Line
Standards advocacy at its best
This book presents all the arguments you might need to convince anyone, however sceptical, that following standards is the way to go when building websites. Read more
Published on 18 July 2009 by Asgeir Enersen
Designing with Web Standards
I was very pleased with this book. It came promptly and was in very good condition.
Published on 27 Feb 2009 by AJ CLARK
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