Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition) |  | Authors: Jeffrey Zeldman, Ethan Marcotte
Publisher: New Riders Press
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ISBN: 0321616952
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Publication Date: October 25, 2009
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Standards, argues Jeffrey Zeldman in Designing With Web Standards, are our only hope for breaking out of the endless cycle of testing that plagues designers hoping to support all possible clients. In this book, he explains how designers can best use standards--primarily XHTML and CSS, plus ECMAScript and the standard Document Object Model (DOM)--to increase their personal productivity and maximize the availability of their creations. Zeldman's approach is detailed, authoritative, and rich with historical context, as he is quick to explain how features of standards evolved. It's a fantastic education that any design professional will appreciate. Zeldman is an idealist who devotes some of his book to explaining how much easier life would be if browser developers would just support standards properly (he's done a lot toward this goal in real life, as well). He is also a pragmatist, who recognizes that browsers implement standards differently (or partially, or not at all) and that it is the job of the Web designer to make pages work anyway. Thus, his book includes lots of explicit and tightly focused tips (with code) that have to do with bamboozling non-compliant browsers into behaving as they should, without tripping up more compliant browsers. There's lots of coverage of design and testing tools that can aid in the creation of good-looking, standards-abiding documents. --David Wall Topics covered: Why Web standards (such as XHTML, CSS, ECMAScript, and DOM) are good for everyone, and why site designers and browser makers should move towards standards compliance.
Product Description
Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has revisited his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. Updated in collaboration with co-author Ethan Marcotte, this third edition covers improvements and challenges in the changing environment of standards-based design.
Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest, Designing with Web Standards remains your essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain.
- Substantially revised—packed with new ideas
- How will HTML5, CSS3, and web fonts change your work?
- Learn new strategies for selling standards
- Change what “IE6 support” means
“Occasionally (very occasionally) you come across an author who makes you think, ‘This guy is smart! And he makes me feel smarter, because now I finally understand this concept.’” — Steve Krug, author of Don’t Make Me Think and Rocket Surgery Made Easy
“A web designer without a copy of Designing with Web Standards is like a carpenter without a level. With this third edition, Zeldman continues to be the voice of clarity; explaining the complex in plain English for the rest of us.” — Dan Cederholm, author, Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS
“Jeffrey Zeldman sits somewhere between ‘guru’ and ‘god’ in this industry—and manages to fold wisdom and wit into a tale about WHAT web standards are, HOW standards-based coding works, and WHY we should care.” — Kelly Goto, author, Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works
“Some books are meant to be read. Designing with Web Standards is even more: intended to be highlighted, dogeared, bookmarked, shared, passed around, and evangelized, it goes beyond reading to revolution.” — Liz Danzico, Chair, MFA Interaction Design, School of Visual Arts
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 Shows Importance of Web Standards November 23, 2009
Leah Hicks
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
During the prehistoric era of the internet, there was no real guideline for making a website. It was done how one pleased: put a table here and there and viola, you have your layout. But tables were not meant for layout, they were meant for tabular data. Examples such as these are seen in "Designing with Web Standards," and how they can lead to the detriment of the webmaster.
While "Designing with Web Standards" is not necessarily code-intensive, it provides plenty of real-life situations where web standards are important. It is not a guide to creating your website; rather, it is a guide to improve upon it. Jeffrey Zeldman demonstrates that web standards will, in the long run, save you a lot of trouble.
This book is a good read for those who wish to clean their websites and overall make the website less time-consuming and easier to manage.
Entertaining, witty, wasy to read, insightful. An excellent book October 25, 2009
Adam Kahtava
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The title (Designing with Web Standards) of Jeffrey Zeldman's book says it all - this book promoted accessible, usable, search engine friendly web design and development through the use of XHTML and CSS while debunking the myths surrounding web standards. Zeldman is a well recognized name among web developers and designers - he's the the founder of A List Apart, and co-founder of The Web Standards Project (WaSP). His writing is entertaining, witty, easy to read, and insightful - it's very much like the content we're used to reading at A List Apart. It's also fair to mention that this book has been edited by industy experts and influencial writers like Eric Myer. Any developer that works with the web should read this book along with JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford.
A good introduction September 22, 2009
Gabriel Garcia
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is a good introduction for anyone who want to know how to build websites according to Web Standars. Despite some clues are a little old, it should be good a new updated version of the book including latest browsers like Internet Explorer 8. Anyway the book is nice and usefull to a new developer or designer.
 If you want to learn web design, this is NOT the book May 31, 2009
Wei Li (Lexington, KY)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I want to learn web design, so I did some research on the topic. It seems everybody is saying this is a must-read for web designers. So I bought the book, read it and I must say this is NOT the book if you want to learn web design. If you don't know anything about HTML and CSS, this might be a OK intro book. Otherwise this is a total waste of time. I didn't learn any web design skills, and any sane person knows he needs to use web standard, except in reality not all browsers are created equal, so you have to resort to hacks to make it work, which author uses in the book and are definitely NOT the standard the author was advertising.
Great book May 11, 2009
Web Megroz (melbourne, australia)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is great, shares knowledge that should be the foundation of anyone who works in the web industry,
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