Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12348 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-23
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Synopsis
The Web has changed, and so has the art of creating Web sites. Few visual designers are natural programmers, and as a result, visualizing how to work with markup, CSS and a range of programmatic techniques to create beautiful design is difficult. To make things more complicated, most Web design teaching materials focus on the technical rather than the creative. Countless resources and guides focus on semantics, compliance, and validity--and while all important--mean nothing to the creative designer who wants to impress his or her clients and employers with exceptional design without worrying that the way they approach the design will be compromised by creativity-limiting technical issues. So how do creative designers learn to be artistic yet functional? With Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design. This book helps designers understand how to implement highly creative designs by visually demonstrating creative possibilities and how to achieve them using contemporary techniques.

In sections on designing within the Web team, visualizing code, and the design workflow, the authors take readers through every phase of the design process--from striking a sensible balance between text and graphics to creating eye-popping special effects

Customer Reviews

From A Programmers View This Absolute Rubbish
I see that most people though this book was good, but a few said that they too came from a programming background and found this to be lacking in content.

I too come from a programming background and found it very lacking in content. The book is filled with irrelevant full page images of rubbish. Yes rubbish as in just random pictures of stuff?????? (I would say half of the book is just full page images, with no relevance whatsoever)

I was not impressed and after forcing myself to go through it, threw it in the bin. Wow never read so much rubbish.

I would say just look on the web for some tutorials/examples and save yourself the money.

Wanna know CSS? Get this book! Best decision I ever made
If you (like I was 4 months ago) have been using CSS for a while but have always felt you didn't really understand it's full features/ability/power then this book is for you.

In fact even if you are a seasoned web designer this book will surely enlighten and inform you.

I was starting a my first job in Web Design and I bought this book before I started. I felt like I went from semi-pro to pro overnight! It is a fabulous, great looking and well written book, and if you ignore this review and don't get it you will be making a huge mistake!

I promise you won't be disappointed!

Far too much padding in this for me.
Unlike most of the reviewers here, I come from a technical/programming background as opposed to a designer background.

I hate this book.

I've given it two stars because it does contain useful content.

However, it is buried in reams and reams of superfluous padding. Who needs page after page of pretty pictures, interspersed with the odd paragraph of text? Give us more meat dammit!!!

I found this book very difficult to read. It did not excite me in the slightest, and I was only inspired to be a bit more choosy about my choice of literature in future.

If this is what designers think like, no wonder we ended up with the 2012 logo.