Bulletproof Web Design

Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS

Cover Art for 9780321346933, Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm
ISBN: 9780321346933
Publisher: New Riders Pub
Published: 28 July, 2005
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Book Description No matter how visually appealing or content-packed a Web site may be, if it's not adaptable to a variety of situations and reaching the widest possible audience, it isn't really succeeding. In Bulletproof Web Desing, author and Web designer extraordinaire, Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control--key components of every sucessful site. Each chapter starts out with an example of an unbulletproof site one that employs a traditional HTML-based approach which Dan then deconstructs, pointing out its limitations. He then gives the site a make-over using XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), so you can see how to replace bloated code with lean markup and CSS for fast-loading sites that are accessible to all users. Finally, he covers several popular fluid and elastic-width layout techniques and pieces together all of the page components discussed in prior chapters into a single-page template. Guest Reviewer: Jeffrey Zeldman Modern web design is user-centered, accessible, and standards-based. In other words, it's completely different from the stuff we did in the 1990s. There are two vital aspects to designing with web standards: (1) understanding why

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