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

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

by Dan Cederholm (Author)
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  • Paperback: 280 pages
  • Publisher: New Riders (11 Aug 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0321346939
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321346933
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 18.8 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 226,084 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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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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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Something for Everyone, 20 Dec 2005
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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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must for developers, designers, and hobbyists., 23 Aug 2005
By B. Eaton "twiglet27" (Telford, UK) - See all my reviews
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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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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for intermediate web designers, 15 Sep 2007
By 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 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 19 days ago 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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This is a superbly written book that i would highly recommend to any developer, even veterans developers. Read more
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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
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5.0 out of 5 stars The design bible for Web 2.0
I bought this along with Dan's other book, "Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook" last year. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mr. Conor Oneill

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb easy to read book!
I used this book in conjuction with my course at University and it really helped me.

This is an easy-to-read book which, unlike most computing/website design book is... Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2007 by James Mackay

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential For All Web Designers
Dan Cederholm's second book is a must-have for all web designers. This is essentially a 'cookbook' that uses a problem and solution approach to solve oft-encountered situations... Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2006 by DAZ

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended
I'm on chapter 3 of this book and I love it. Its easy to read due to authors language and prose, its all colour and very enjoyable. Read more
Published on 6 Jul 2006 by Mr. B. R. Wilson

5.0 out of 5 stars Best in it's class
The quality of the material in this book is fantastic. It also one of the few books that actually has colour photos/screenshots. I couldn't recommend this book enough. Read more
Published on 23 May 2006 by Jono

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelllent guide for any web developer
This book is an excellent collection of techniques for improving and strengthening your css based website.
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