Designing with Web Standards (Voices That Matter Series)

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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 ...

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Overview

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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Once, designing with web standards was viewed as idealistic: nice, but not particularly necessary or practical. That’s changed. In the era of “Web 2.0,” findability, syndication, blogs, podcasts, AJAX, Firefox, Safari, and cellphone web access, standards are now officially indispensable. Plus, nowadays you can actually use standards without compromising your design vision or site usability. Jeffrey Zeldman can show you how.

Zeldman helped launch the web standards revolution with his classic, Designing with Web Standards. He’s now done a massive update, and his new Second Edition is invaluable. It’s where to turn when you want to convert to XHTML without the pain. When you want today’s best practices and workarounds for dealing with multiple browsers. When you want a solidly standards-based approach to great web typography. And, not least, when you need to convince your boss that standards compliance can actually make (or save) money. Bill Camarda, from the August 2006 Read Only

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780321385550
  • Publisher: Peachpit Press
  • Publication date: 7/21/2006
  • Series: Voices That Matter Series
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 410
  • Product dimensions: 7.02 (w) x 9.18 (h) x 0.77 (d)

Meet the Author

Jeffrey Zeldman is among the best-known Web designers in the world. His personal site (www.zeldman.com) has welcomed more than 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 technology in their browsers.

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Table of Contents

Pt. I Houston, we have a problem
1 99.9% of Websites are obsolete 21
2 Designing and building with standards 43
3 The trouble with standards 73
4 Findability, syndication blogs, podcasts, the long tail, Ajax (and other reasons standards are winning) 101
Pt. II Designing and building
5 Modern markup 143
6 XHTML : restructuring the Web 157
7 Tighter, firmer pages guaranteed : structure and meta-structure in strict and hybrid markup 177
8 XHTML by example : a hybrid layout (part I) 205
9 CSS basics 219
10 CSS in action : a hybrid layout (part II) 243
11 Working with browsers part I : DOCTYPE switching and standards mode 271
12 Working with browsers part II : box models, bugs, and workarounds 285
13 Working with browsers part III : typography 311
14 Accessibility basics 331
15 Working with DOM-based scripts 365
16 A CSS redesign 379
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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 19, 2013

    This explains EVERYTHING

    This book (one of the two Holy Grail of coding books) tells the story of print, internet, web, ebook, mobile, app, tablet, html, css, html5 development and progress. It explains, in lay terms, how we got where we are in web design and where we are going.
    More importantly though, the book explains how to use clean code in your file creation so your work can move forward across mediums, platforms, and different operating systems.
    Not an expert in code, but involved in graphics for almost 30 years, I needed to read this. This book makes great sense. A MUST for web developers, designers, and artists.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 6, 2005

    This will change your thinking

    This book will change your philosophy about designing web pages. There is a bit of how-to in there but it is more about the why. Parts will make you laugh but most of it makes you think.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 2, 2004

    A must have title...

    The book is well written, easy to follow and a wealth of information. It clearly outlines browser histories and why things broke or are broken, core standards & technologies, and why these things are important - not just to site owners, developers, managers or educators - but to end users too! The book sets the ground work for better site design and management and improved user experiences which is a good thing no matter how you slice it. While it's geared to towards web designers and site owners/managers - end users will benefit from understanding just what is going on behind the scenes at a conceptual level which is explained clearly in the book. Sure - end users will want to ignore the bits on how things are coded - but if a user understands just what's going on there's no way they'd settle for poorly designed web sites nor would they be using obsolete browsers once they realize what's at stake. My copy is full of highlighting and about 40 book darts to must have tidbits of information. To Jeffrey Zeldman (and his cast of editors) - well done!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 11, 2003

    It's the bomb.

    Designing with Web Standards is the bomb, all right - just what you'd expect from Zeldman. It addresses all of the issues that have plagued us at one time or another and then gives us options for dealing with them. It's the nuts and bolts and the how-to manual for creating timeless code.

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