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Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS [Paperback]

Zoe Mickley Gillenwater (Author)
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Publication Date: 4 Dec 2008 | ISBN-10: 0321553845 | ISBN-13: 978-0321553843 | Edition: 1
Liquid or fluid layouts change width based on the user's unique device viewing size. These types of layouts have always been possible with tables but offer new design challenges as well as opportunities when built with CSS. This book, for experienced Web designers with some CSS experience, outlines how to do this successfully.

Designers will learn the benefits of flexible layouts and when to choose a liquid, elastic, or hybrid design. They will learn not only how to build a liquid layout from scratch using standards-compliant and cross-browser compatible (X)HTML and CSS, but will also learn how to design and slice their graphic comps in a way that makes flexible design achievable. This book will show designers that flexible layouts do not have to be visually boring or difficult to build when planned and built correctly. Even those who do not intend to build liquid layouts can use the concepts and techniques taught in this book to improve their fixed-width CSS designs, because they will learn how to design for the inherent flexibility of the web medium, instead of the rigid qualities of print media or table grid-based layouts.

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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: New Riders; 1 edition (4 Dec 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321553845
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321553843
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 1.7 x 22.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"Another excellent resource comes to us courtesy of Zoe Mickley Gillenwater . She’s written a book called Flexible Web Designs . Buy it now. You won’t regret it. I thought I knew my stuff when it came to wrangling CSS but this book had techniques that were new to me. ..."  -- Jeremy Keith

"If you want to know more about creating liquid and elastic layouts, you should read Flexible Web Design by Zoe Mickley Gillenwater. I heard about the book on Twitter (via Malarkey) and I bought it almost straight away. I started reading it recently and my first impressions are that this is the best book I have bought in some time. The book describes flexible layout types in some detail and explains how to achieve these with CSS. It really is a worthwhile read if you are new to flexible layouts…. or even if you are a regular ‘flexible web designer’." -- Clive Walker

"The biggest two flaws that this book has is that it wasn't published many years ago and not all web designers have a copy of it. There isn't much that can be done about the first of these and the situation regarding the second will resolve itself gradually as more web designers find out about the book and buy a copy. This book goes into great detail on a number of important techniques for styling web pages with CSS that will be useful to anyone creating web pages. The step by step approach not only shows you how to solve the specific layouts that the book covers but also show very clearly the approach to take to resolve the layout of any web page with CSS." -- Stephen Chapman

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Liquid or fluid layouts change width based on the user's unique device viewing size. These types of layouts have always been possible with tables but offer new design challenges as well as opportunities when built with CSS. This book, for experienced Web designers with some CSS experience, outlines how to do this successfully.

Designers will learn the benefits of flexible layouts and when to choose a liquid, elastic, or hybrid design. They will learn not only how to build a liquid layout from scratch using standards-compliant and cross-browser compatible (X)HTML and CSS, but will also learn how to design and slice their graphic comps in a way that makes flexible design achievable. This book will show designers that flexible layouts do not have to be visually boring or difficult to build when planned and built correctly. Even those who do not intend to build liquid layouts can use the concepts and techniques taught in this book to improve their fixed-width CSS designs, because they will learn how to design for the inherent flexibility of the web medium, instead of the rigid qualities of print media or table grid-based layouts.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow 17 July 2010
By A. Kwabula VINE™ VOICE
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Nothing much except, that I looooooooove this book. Just on the second chapter but I already feel empowered to tackle the dreaded CSS Liquid layouts. I have always avoided them as I was unsure how to make them intergrete with images and still remain fluid as well as making sure they do not break.

All right, if you insist, I will explain more ...

One of the best computer books I ever ready. Highly recommended. Is it going to teach you CSS? Nay, it won't, so you need to be confortable with CSS not necessarily a pro but you should be able to craft out a basic 2, or 3 columm from SCRATCH. Basically you should be able to pull things from the default browser rendering and positioning them. The book goes step by step as you build a liquid layout (code available from companion site) so you will still be able to fill your gaps in case you do not know the 'clear' feature in CSS. An excellent book with 200 to 280 pages, so it wont be long before your web pages are flexible.

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Adding images to a liquid css layout is one of the biggest headaches for css coders. There is a section that explains prepare images that will stretch as the layout stretches by segmenting a large image into multiple sliding pieces.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Relevant to current best practices 3 Jan 2009
By Robin Button - Published on Amazon.com
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I just purchased the book, and find it to be a valuable resource for the baffling topic of liquid layouts. It "set me straight" on some basic concepts and I particularly liked the way Zoe explained the pros and cons of the various layout choices. For this reason, I will refer to it before beginning a new project to help me me make some design decisions. Also, she provides some examples for dealing with some of the issues that must be considered when working with liquid layouts(such as strategies to use for graphic comps). I also think it's a good blend of theory and actual exercises ... I have found that some books have too much of one or the other. For anyone ready to move beyond the fixed-width layout, I highly recommend it. I was very happy to see a very comprehensive book that dealt specifically with liquid layouts, written by someone who is an expert in this particular area. However it's not for the fledgling web designer (and the author clearly states this in her introduction).
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A must reference source for CSS layouts 15 Mar 2009
By James W. Gray Jr. - Published on Amazon.com
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I've been struggling with css and getting it to behave. I went to the bookstore and must have poured through about 15 or so css related books. I was looking for a step by step guide through the process and instantly grabed this book up as the one to beat. I walked away with 3 books to the register. This book was first on my list to read. Flexible Web Design has helped me get over the learning curve answered a lot of my biggest questions and cured most of my css hangups the first evening I cracked the book. You explain it very well like a friend sitting down with you. You don't take anything for granted, your very meticulous yet the explanations flows easy and comfortably at the same time, How did you do that? I highly recommend this to designers going from table layouts to css and need a comprehensive crash coarse that will get you up and going quickly with lots of tips, strategies and design considerations.

Thank you so much for getting this out there.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Should Be Required Reading 22 Feb 2010
By Zachary Williams - Published on Amazon.com
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After having read multiple articles from Smashing Magazine, A List Apart, and other blogs that have articles on both liquid and elastic layouts, I was really blown away with how much information was in this book. It definitely pays tribute to how much time Gillenwater must have invested in writing 'Flexible Web Design.' It's a truly excellent CSS book, and I'd recommend it to anyone who tries to use CSS Frameworks for laying out web pages instead of hand-coding. Out of all the CSS books I've read, this one was by far the most informative.
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