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book for some CSS best practices, If you are a web developer this book ought to be on your desk, and dogeared from overuse, No question about it. Web standards are the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium WC to make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers are using the same technology syntax One of my favorite books of all time!! Noted web standards guru Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits fame presents sixteen chapters devoted to the effective and optimal use of XHTML markup followed by advanced CSS techniques layered upon that markup.
While much of this information has been covered before and will be familiar to intermediate and advanced XHTML coders, several of the CSS chapters are real eyeopeners, even for advanced technicians.
For example, in Chapter: Print Styles, Cederholm discusses an extremely effective technique for allowing the user to switch between alternative layouts of your page twocolumn, threecolumn without the need for a roundtrip to the server.
And Chapter: Styling sounds innocent enough, but presents a technique that allows the developer to provide some basic Content Management System CMS functionality as applied to web templating.
It's a short bookpages, and quick read, but may prove indispensible from a design, productivity, and business perspective, Highly recommended.
You hold in your hands a recipe book, With clear examples and no wasted words, designer Dan Cederholm shows how to put web standards to work creating beautiful, lightweight interfaces that are accessible to all.
Dan isn't here to make the creative or business case for standardsbased web design, Others cough have already done that, And frankly, if you've bothered to pick up this book and thumb through its pages, you probably already know the accessibility, longevity, and business benefits standardsbased design provides.
You don't need another overview or elevator pitch you need a practical, rollupyoursleeves, component view, and that's what this book delivers, In downtoearth, natural languagethe same kind of language that's found on good websites Dan examines universal site elements such as page divisions and navigation.
Using a teaching method he pioneered at SimpleBits, com, Dan shows how web standards make these universal page components easier to create, easier to modify when your boss or client requests la minute changes, and most important of all, easier for people to use.
Published at the dawn of the Web,era, this book provides you with the fundamentals of HTML and CSS, which are the bedrock of web design, Because it is so well written and fundamental, the concepts and practices stand up to this day, One caveat is that as soon as you work through the fundamentals, there are a ton of great resources to learn modern HTML post HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
HTML/CSS/Javascript are the cornerstone of all web development and it's important to at least be familiar with the fundamentals, In a noisy world, this book is a great starting point, Coming from the all flash explosion of the early's, I was never particularly interested in web,. Once I shifted my focus out of actionscript and into to semantic markup and valid HTML, I realized I had a whole lot to learn.
Dan's book was the map that I used to get steer my learning process through the world of web standards, I've read countless books and articles on standards since but I only ever returned to this book, A fantastic work, cohesive and thoughtful, simple and sensible a truly solid and de facto work on the subject, A designer, author, speaker, husband and father living in Salem, Massachusetts, Dan is the

Founder and Principal of SimpleBits, LLC, a tiny web design studio, A recognized expert in the field of standards based web design, Dan has worked with YouTube, Microsoft, Google, MTV, ESPN, Electronic Arts, Blogger, Fast Company, Inc.
Magazine, and others. With each new project, comes an opportunity to minimize markup and embrace the flexibility of CSS, Dan is co founder and designer of Dribbble, a vibrant community for sharing screenshots of your work, Previously, he co founded and designed Corkd, the first social network for wine aficionados which was later acquired by Gary Vaynerchuk, .