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

Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series) | Dan Cederholm | More effecient internet UI solutions even with web frameworks like ASP.NET

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	Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series) Dan Cederholm friends of ED, 2004 - 252 pages average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

One of the better CSS books.

This book was an amazing resource for me. Since buying it, it's been in my messenger bag to ensure a quick reference at both work and at home.

This is a perfect book for a web-designer that has been toying with css for a while and is ready to make the jump to full-fleged web standards.

Like Zeldman's "Designing w/ Web Standards", this book reads more like a conversation than a tech book. It explains things easily and not in a condescending way.

I particularly liked the way this book gives you real-world explanations of taking what you are *used* to doing and showing you how to better do it with css. It's very clear and makes the transition much easier.

My only complaint from this book was that CSS Positioning was not covered very lightly. It would have been nice to have expanded on this area bit more.

I can't recommend this book enough.

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More effecient internet UI solutions even with web frameworks like ASP.NET

To begin producing web solutions when 3.0 and 4.0 browsers were the standard much of my formal knowledge and experiential instincts had remained grounded there. Eventually ASP.NET 1.0 was released and I forgot that world for a time and went out-of-the-box. But by the time I decided to balance the tradeoffs between controls and manually input markup, the browser landscape had changed quite a bit. You got Firefox and Safari as well as much improved versions of more senior offerings.

It wasn't enough to use MasterPages, Themes, and Skins for my latest project. I also wanted to be XHTML compliant and reduce HTML and CSS footprint. In other words, I was shooting for smaller, cheaper, faster. So I checked out an article on A List Apart called "Thinking Outside the Grid". Although I didn't want agree with everything said (one indicating that I am that old), I did start to wonder if there was a better way. The better way I considered was how to lower overall complexity while boosting elegance compared the same solution in older technologies. Using the insights in the book can better position solutions for a wider array of presentation types.

By properly adopting the guidelines presented here, I significantly reduced extraneous markup I would have written to minimize strain on bandwidth. It also provided the grounding needed to migrate away from certain uses of server controls and better leverage non-programmatic techniques. I was pleasantly surprised at how much more effective CSS can be applied when using you properly structure the markup. Coupled with the W3C Validator on the web, you can arrive at some great finishing touches on the solution's markup specification.

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A must have

The concepts that are taught in this book are essential for anyone working on the web. Dan will open your eyes about the way web documents should be structured so that it is accessible by 'all' audiences (people using different browsers and people with visual impairments) AND so they'll be easy to style and maintain.

Each chapter starts with a goal and then he presents different approaches to achieve that goal...weighing the pros/cons for each method.

Dan conveys the information in a clear, succinct and "matter of fact" style. I actually took this book with me on the subway one day and was so engrossed that I missed my stop! :)

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The Perfect Guide to Clean HTML

An excellent walk-through on how to separate the semantic content from the presentational view of web pages using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It's one thing to know what CSS is but it's quite another to learn it's full potential. With this book you'll learn how to extract all of you presentational markup and even improve upon it through the use of powerful CSS techniques. If you still use B, I, or FONT tags, you need this book! Using the information in this book, coupled with a scripting language (Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP), and a database (MySQL, etc), you can create a powerful code generation utility for producing or updating entire websites with simple templates.

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Easy to Use and Indispensable

This is the best CSS book that I've used. The topics are laid out very clearly. I love that the book is succinct and I can delve right into the examples and apply them right away to my website. This book has really helped me to write more efficient code and to design more visually pleasing websites. It has great explanations about pros and cons of different methods of code implementation. I highly recommend this book to designers who are new to CSS. You should start with this book.

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