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	Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS ... Dan Cederholm New Riders Press, 2007 - 312 pages average customer review:based on 103 reviews view larger image
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Book Review from Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB)

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

This is one of the best CSS books I have read. Author demonstrated how to make the sites bulletproof on desirable features like adjustable text, scalable navigation, expandable rows, and sizable boxes. Unlike other CSS books, author demonstrated standards-based strategies for building designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control with useful code examples, ample illustrations, and clear explanations. This book changes the way on how we treat CSS and HTML from the old traditional concept to the cutting-edge practice in any modern browsers, yet making successful sites degrade gracefully in any browsers. This is a good reference book I would keep using and reading repeatedly. This is excellent classroom book for CSS beginners to build strong foundation or advance professionals to push their skills to the next level.

Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

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This book is great. Sets you up with examples of web sites that real world major companies have created, and will walk you through a better way to do specific parts of the site.

Not for beginners, shows real world examples for sure

The book is very well written for me. I know enough CSS and XHTML, but I get lost in the WHY to do certain things in certain places. The book has some great example websites built with tables, and then how the same site could be improved with XHTML and CSS. It is not a simple replace A with B. He takes you through each step, why he is doing it, and what the effect is in the browser.

I enjoyed it so much I read it all in a single day. And for the past 2 weeks have been going through and implementing his tactics on a new site I am building. It is very practicle advice to put into your sites today. It has definately helped my understanding of CSS in general, and even provides some good site design tips as well.

I highly recommend the book.

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Mind experiment

A good tech book is one I can take with me on the train, read it, gain something, and then try out the technique once I get to the office. In other words, it lets me perform experiments in my mind and then try them for real later. Too many tech books fail to logically walk me through a process and instead either (a) rely too heavily on complex examples that must be done on a computer or (b) regurgitate existing documentation.

_Bulletproof Web Design_ avoids both traps, instead making a case for accessible design and then explaining - in easy-to-understand chunks - how to do it.

To put it another way, very few books in this genre succeed in changing the way I approach something. This one does.

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written in a voice anyone can understand, filled with techniques pros use

The second edition of Bulletproof Web Design is as good as the first, but keeps it current with IE7 and the ever-changing techniques CSS professionals use. The book is written in a voice anyone can understand, and is filled with techniques pros use. The lessons don't go that deep, but there is little here that anyone who writes CSS for a living will disagree with. I was surprised that he still talked about adding hacks to your CSS to feed special values to different versions of IE, but in the last chapter 'Putting It All Together' he used external hack sheets for different versions of IE brought in with IE conditional comments, so all was forgiven. I would recommend this book to anyone who desires to improve the way that they write CSS.

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