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by Jeffrey Zeldman (Author) "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..." (more)
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"Jeffrey and his web standards coconspirators have made it possible for those old enemies--beauty, usability, and accessibility--to play nice together in any website."  -- Louis Rosenfeld, publisher, Rosenfeld Media

"Zeldman explains complex technologies in a way that designers can not only understand, but actually get excited about.  If you are serious about web design, you need this book.  -- Hillman Curtis, author, MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer


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Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has updated his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. This new edition--now in full color--covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers since the first edition introduced the world to standards-based design. Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest, it remains an essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain.

Readers will learn from Jeffrey's insights as he demonstrates how web standards are driving search engine friendliness ("findability") and the Web 2.0 applications that have reinvigorated the medium and the online marketplace. Readers will discover new techniques to make CSS layouts work better across multiple browsers and ways to make web content more accessible.

Designing with Web Standards is an AIGA Design Press book, published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with AIGA.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lucid and accessible -- the wave of the future!, 15 Sep 2003
This review is from: Designing with Web Standards (Paperback)
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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Designing with Web Standards - Great book, 8 Jul 2005
This review is from: Designing with Web Standards (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!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this Book!, 5 Jan 2004
By Christopher Murphy "Design Lecturer" (N. Ireland) - See all my reviews
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars 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
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5.0 out of 5 stars Designing with Web Standards
I was very pleased with this book. It came promptly and was in very good condition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A little too much tub-thumping
As an amateur website designer, who tries to stick to modern standard-based layout, I'm always keen to pick up tips from the pros. Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2006 by Joseph A. Wright

2.0 out of 5 stars How frustrating........memories of the past
After the first 200 pages of negativity, I had to throw the book in the bin!

Zeldman continually patronises the developers of the past working in environments of... Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2006 by Mr. R. Bamforth

2.0 out of 5 stars Out of date and mainly rhetoric
It's ironic that a book that is so much about future proofing spends so much time talking about version 4.0 browsers, making much of the book fairly obselete. Read more
Published on 7 Jul 2006 by P. Powell

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book
This is a great book which will give you a thorough understanding of web standards. If you are a budding web designer, this book will explain important principles that will save... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential purchase
The title sounds a little dull and belies the importance of this book. Think about it like this; who specifies the web standards to which the browser makers are increasingly if... Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2006 by kharris42

5.0 out of 5 stars All web designers must read this book
This is a very important book. In Designing with Web Standards, Jeffrey Zeldman describes the way websites were coded in the twentieth century, clearly explains why this is now... Read more
Published on 15 Jul 2005 by David Watson

2.0 out of 5 stars Annoying
It wasn't till page 147 that something useful emerged.
The first 146 pages spend most of the time trying to persuade you to use Web Standards and CSS rather than explain... Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2005 by Pete

5.0 out of 5 stars Serious about web design - you need this book
Zeldmans "Designing with Web standards" is the perfect book for anyone who has a reasonable standard of web production skills but is yet to make the transition to tablesless... Read more
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