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.

Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS

Computers & Technology

Cederholm, Dan

Web Development & Design

New Riders Pub

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.

Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-case Scenarios With Xhtml and Css

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: 
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<li>building for unanticipated future use</li> </ul>
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<li>progressively enriching designs using CSS3 properties</li> </ul>
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<li>using RGBA color for transparency with an alpha channel</li> </ul>
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<li>modular float management</li> </ul>
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<li>crafting flexible frameworks</li> </ul>
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<li>fluid layouts using grid-based design principles</li> </ul>
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<li>craftsmanship details on typography, jQuery, and shifting backgrounds</li> </ul>

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design

Marcotte, Ethan

This DVD-ROM takes the approach that there's a real connection between craftsmanship and Web design. Handcrafted CSS (the book) gives frustrated Web designers the ammo they need to convince their clients and bosses to adopt innovative and effective CSS3 techniques that make their lives easier while improving the end user's experience. This DVD-ROM builds on the techniques and ideas in the book and takes the viewer further along the path to discovering how CSS craftsmanship applies to Web design. The DVD uses a fictional case study and covers the following topics: Color, Typography, and Microformats.

Handcrafted CSS: Bulletproof Essentials

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: 
<ul>
<li>building for unanticipated future use</li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>progressively enriching designs using CSS3 properties</li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>using RGBA color for transparency with an alpha channel</li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>modular float management</li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>crafting flexible frameworks</li> </ul>
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<li>fluid layouts using grid-based design principles</li> </ul>
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<li>craftsmanship details on typography, jQuery, and shifting backgrounds</li> </ul>The video included with this special edition features author Dan Cederholm as he illustrates 10 essential Web design guidelines. Enhancing the content in this book, the Handcrafted CSS: Bulletproof Essentials DVD will arm you with a checklist to make your next project a flexible, adaptable, and wellcrafted design.

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design: Video Edition

No matter how visually appealing or content packed a web site may be, if it doesn’t reach the widest possible audience, it isn’t truly successful. In Bulletproof Web Design, Third Edition, bestselling author and web designer Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that can accommodate the myriad ways users choose to view the content. Each chapter starts out with an example of an unbulletproof approach--one that employs traditional HTML-based techniques--which Dan deconstructs, pointing out its limitations. He then gives the example a makeover using HTML and CSS, so you can learn to replace bloated code with lean markup and CSS for fast-loading sites that are accessible to all users. Finally, he assembles all of the page components discussed in prior chapters into a single-page template. This fully revised and updated third edition introduces CSS3 and HTML5 methods and features redesigned case studies including new responsive design examples. 
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<li>Size text using keywords, percentages, and ems to allow more user control.</li> </ul>
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<li> Plan for vertical expansion of horizontal page components.</li> </ul>
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<li> Use floats to achieve grid-like results.</li> </ul>
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<li> Ensure that content is still readable in the absence of images or CSS.</li> </ul>
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<li> Strip the presentation from data tables, and rebuild with CSS.</li> </ul>
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<li> Progressively enhance your designs using HTML5 and CSS3.</li> </ul>
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<li> Visit the companion website at simplebits.com/bulletproof to download finished files, additional resources, and book updates.</li> </ul>

Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-Case Scenarios with HTML5 and CSS3 (Voices That Matter)

Web standards are the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers are using the same technology syntax. It is important that these implementations are the same throughout the Web, otherwise it becomes a messy proprietary place, and lacks consistency. These standards also allow content to be more compatible with multiple different viewing devices, such as screen readers for people with vision impairments, cell phones, PDFs, etc. HTML, XML, and CSS are all such technologies. This book is your essential guide to understanding the advantages you can bring to your web pages by implementing web standards and precisely how to apply them. Web standards such as XHTML and CSS are now fairly well-known technologies, and they will likely be familiar to you, the web designerindeed, they are all around you on the Web. However, within web standards still lies a challengewhile the browser's support for web standards is steadily increasing, many web developers and designers have yet to discover the real benefits of web standards and respect the need to adhere to them. The real art is in truly understanding the benefits and implementing the standards efficiently. As a simple example of its power, you can use CSS to lay out your pages instead of nesting tables. This can make file sizes smaller, allowing pages to load faster, ultimately increasing accessibility for all browsers, devices, and web users. <ul>
<li>Use XHTML elements correctly so that your markup is compact and more easily understood. </li> <li>Use CSS to style different elements of a web page. </li> <li>Lay out pages easily and effectively. </li> <li>Compare multiple methods of achieving the same results to make better design choices. </li> <li>Learn about advanced web design techniques and their important caveats. </li> </ul>
Web Standards Solutions is broken down into 16 short chapters, each covering the theory and practice of different web standards concept and showing multiple solutions to given problems for easy learning. You’ll learn about multi-column layouts, using image replacement techniques to your best advantage, making the best use of tables and lists, and many more. This highly modular approach allows you to rapidly digest, understand, and utilize the essentials of web standards.

Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series)

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