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Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, Video Edition (includes Handcrafted CSS Book and Handcrafted CSS: Bulletproof Essentials DVD) (Voices That Matter)
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Product Description
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:
- building for unanticipated future use
- progressively enriching designs using CSS3 properties
- using RGBA color for transparency with an alpha channel
- modular float management
- crafting flexible frameworks
- fluid layouts using grid-based design principles
- craftsmanship details on typography, jQuery, and shifting backgrounds
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #5876 in Books
- Published on: 2009-08-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
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:
- building for unanticipated future use
- progressively enriching designs using CSS3 properties
- using RGBA color for transparency with an alpha channel
- modular float management
- crafting flexible frameworks
- fluid layouts using grid-based design principles
- craftsmanship details on typography, jQuery, and shifting backgrounds
Customer Reviews
Sensible stuff from Dan
Here's a web designer that speaks my language. Having read and subscribed to the "Bulletproof" idea of web design, I bought this book on the strength of his previous. Dan takes this to the next level and introduces us to a few CSS3 ideas that can be safely implemented during this limbo phase the web design world finds itself in.
It's a great feet-on-the-ground approach and, save for the odd 'trick' here and there, it's hack-free and that's just how I like to design. The title says it all - if you're the type of designer who lines his / her code up neatly in a text editor (amost OCD but not quite!) and hates seeing 'div-itis' then Dan's your man. But this isn't a book totally aimed at the nitty gritty... this is the concept of moving forward with code, css (2 and some 3) and learning to accept that designs can look different in different browsers.
The DVD bit...well it's not a tutorial per-se, Dan talks about the chapters in the book but it's more than just an overview. He talks about a few examples, detailing why he does the things he does and generalising on the chapter's content. I would say to get the Video Edition - it's refreshing to hear someone at the top of their game natter on about the things you believe in and it helps you to settle into the book.
Not for beginners - you need to be hand-building sites to get the most out of this book. If you're a Dreamweaver user and know a bit about sorting the code out but wonder why the pros write it all by hand then yeah, as long as you know some xhtml and css then grab this but make sure you check out Dan's "Bulletproof Web Design" first.
Enjoy your craft.
