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Dan Cederholm (Author), Ethan Marcotte (Author)
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Publication Date: 9 Aug 2009 | ISBN-10: 0321643380 | ISBN-13: 978-0321643384 | Edition: 1
There’s a real connection between craftsmanship and Web design. That’s the theme running through Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, by bestselling author Dan Cederholm, with a chapter contributed by renowned Web designer and developer Ethan Marcotte. This book explores CSS3 that works in today’s browsers, and you’ll be convinced that now’s the time to start experimenting with it.

Whether you’re a Web designer, project manager, or a graphic designer wanting to learn more about the fluidity that’s required when designing for the Web, you’ll discover the tools to create the most flexible, reliable, and bulletproof Web designs. And you’ll finally be able to persuade your clients to adopt innovative and effective techniques that make everyone’s life easier while improving the end user’s experience. This book’s seven chapters deconstruct various aspects of a case-study Web site for the Tugboat Coffee Company, focusing on aspects that make it bulletproof and demonstrate progressive enrichment techniques over more traditional labor-intensive methods.

Subjects covered in this book include:
  • building for unanticipated future use
  • progressively enriching designs using CSS3 properties
  • using RGBA color for transparency with an alpha channel
  • modular float management
  • crafting flexible frameworks
  • fluid layouts using grid-based design principles
  • craftsmanship details on typography, jQuery, and shifting backgrounds

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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: New Riders; 1 edition (9 Aug 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321643380
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321643384
  • Product Dimensions: 19.1 x 1.1 x 23.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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There’s a real connection between craftsmanship and Web design. That’s the theme running through Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, by bestselling author Dan Cederholm, with a chapter contributed by renowned Web designer and developer Ethan Marcotte. This book explores CSS3 that works in today’s browsers, and you’ll be convinced that now’s the time to start experimenting with it.

Whether you’re a Web designer, project manager, or a graphic designer wanting to learn more about the fluidity that’s required when designing for the Web, you’ll discover the tools to create the most flexible, reliable, and bulletproof Web designs. And you’ll finally be able to persuade your clients to adopt innovative and effective techniques that make everyone’s life easier while improving the end user’s experience. This book’s seven chapters deconstruct various aspects of a case-study Web site for the Tugboat Coffee Company, focusing on aspects that make it bulletproof and demonstrate progressive enrichment techniques over more traditional labor-intensive methods.

Subjects covered in this book include:
  • building for unanticipated future use
  • progressively enriching designs using CSS3 properties
  • using RGBA color for transparency with an alpha channel
  • modular float management
  • crafting flexible frameworks
  • fluid layouts using grid-based design principles
  • craftsmanship details on typography, jQuery, and shifting backgrounds

About the Author

Dan Cederholm is a Web designer, author, husband and father living in Salem, Massachusetts. He's the founder of SimpleBits, a tiny design studio. A recognized expert in the field of standards-based Web design, Dan has worked with Google, MTV, Yahoo, ESPN, Fast Company, Blogger, Odeo, and others. He embraces flexible, adaptable design using Web standards through his design work, writing, and speaking. Dan is the author of two bestselling books: Bulletproof Web Design, Second Edition (New Riders) and Web Standards Solutions (Friends of ED). Dan runs the popular weblog SimpleBits, where he writes articles and commentary on the Web, technology, and life.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely useful - again 12 Sep 2009
By Justin Reynolds
Format:Paperback
The underlying theme of Dan Cederholm's books is that craftmanship is the essence of good web design. The web craftsman seeks to ensure that each element of a design is built using robust code that will adapt to the requirements of different browsers and user display settings. Every aspect of the interface, no matter how small, deserves the designer's full attention and respect.

This concept is made explicit in 'Handcrafted CSS'. Through the book Dan quietly unfolds the most persuasive case I've yet read that web designers should be using CSS3 now to enhance designs for those browsers that can support it. He shows how to use incredibly useful CSS3 tools such as border-radius, rgba and transition effects without damaging the user experience of those with older browsers. There's also a very useful discussion of the merits of using the 'clearfix' method to clear floats: Dan supports it, but with some significant caveats.

As with his previous books Dan focuses on the design techniques that designers actually use, day-in-day out. Five years or so after their first publication his earlier books 'Web Design Solutions' and 'Bulletproof CSS' are still by my desk. 'Handcrafted CSS' is more of the same, and highly recommended.

As a bonus the book includes a fine chapter by Ethan Marcotte discussing fluid grid designs. If time or opportunity allowed a full book by Mr Marcotte would be most welcome!
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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent 29 Sep 2009
By mishmosh
Format:Paperback
This is the second title that I own by Dan Cederholm. His books are a must for any web designer. Although the books will not teach you the basics of CSS or HTML, they will give you a full insight into the workings of a professional websites. This book is a must, the only down side to this book is that it is only 220 pages, I would love it to be twice the size.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for a working professional 4 Oct 2009
By Paul Younghusband
Format:Paperback
The problem I find with a lot of CSS books is they tend to cover the basics, and aren't much use to a working professional. This book however is an exception. It discusses CSS 3 techniques in some depth, and how they can be applied to real world projects today. I always say that if you get one great idea from a book then it's almost always worth the asking price. I got several from this book.

Definitely gets a thumbs up from me!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book!
I love this book! It goes in to so much detail and covers so much that even a complete beginner could use it to start with CSS.
Published 5 months ago by Tomas Stoneham
5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant book to start learning the fundamentals of css and web...
I bought this book upon to start learning the styles of CSS and thought it covered a lot of basic and advanced stuff that CSS can provide and also going into what the browser... Read more
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An inspiring read. technically well thought out and well written. Using just one chapter to sort out my website was worth the purchase price. Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2010 by S. Rafiq
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great book by Dan!
This is the 2nd of Dan's books I've bought, and it's definitely worth the money. After reading his Web Standards Solutions markup book, I was eager to buy more of his CSS books. Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2010 by N. Rance
3.0 out of 5 stars Useful but has bad habits
This book is a short book which contains information about common techniques and when best to use them. Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2010 by SilverFirefly
5.0 out of 5 stars Wouldn't expect anything less of Dan
The moment you lay eyes on this book, it's layout and the examples used it oozes classic Dan Cederholm. Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2010 by A. Clarkson
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic work Dan!
Thank you Dan for this amazing book, thank you for very simple and understandable description of attractive information.
Published on 24 July 2010 by nomnol
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read for an IT Book
I know its crazy, but I actually enjoyed reading this book! Many IT books are boring, uninspiring and gernerally seem to enjoy showing us wanna be computer geeks that we cant hack... Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2010 by Mike Wootten
5.0 out of 5 stars another great book
This is a very useful CSS book it has a great selection of well though out techniques that are essential to web designers. Read more
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