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Designing With Web Standards Paperback – 14 May 2003

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You code. And code. And code. You build only to rebuild. You focus on making your site compatible with almost every browser or wireless device ever put out there. Then along comes a new device or a new browser, and you start all over again.

You can get off the merry-go-round.

It's time to stop living in the past and get away from the days of spaghetti code, insanely nested table layouts, tags, and other redundancies that double and triple the bandwidth of even the simplest sites. Instead, it's time for forward compatibility.

Isn't it high time you started designing with web standards?

Standards aren't about leaving users behind or adhering to inflexible rules. Standards are about building sophisticated, beautiful sites that will work as well tomorrow as they do today. You can't afford to design tomorrow's sites with yesterday's piecemeal methods.

Jeffrey teaches you to:
  • Slash design, development, and quality assurance costs (or do great work in spite of constrained budgets)
  • Deliver superb design and sophisticated functionality without worrying about browser incompatibilities
  • Set up your site to work as well five years from now as it does today
  • Redesign in hours instead of days or weeks
  • Welcome new visitors and make your content more visible to search engines
  • Stay on the right side of accessibility laws and guidelines
  • Support wireless and PDA users without the hassle and expense of multiple versions
  • Improve user experience with faster load times and fewer compatibility headaches
  • Separate presentation from structure and behavior, facilitating advanced publishing workflows

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    14 May 2003
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    17.8 x 1.8 x 22.8 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0735712018
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Jeffrey Zeldman¿s personal web site (www.zeldman.com) has welcomed more than 16 million visitors and is read daily by thousands in the web design and development industry. In 1998, Zeldman co-founded The Web Standards Project (www.webstandards.org), a grassroots coalition of web designers and developers that helped end the Browser Wars by persuading Microsoft and Netscape to support the same technologies in their browsers.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Riders; 1st edition (14 May 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 456 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735712018
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735712010
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.8 x 1.8 x 22.8 cm
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Jeffrey Zeldman is among the best-known web designers in the world. In 1998, he co-founded The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition of web designers and developers that helped end the Browser Wars and promote interoperable, accessible UX by persuading Microsoft and Netscape to support the same technology in their browsers. Jeffrey founded and publishes A List Apart (since 1998), the design magazine “for people who make websites;” co-founded An Event Apart front-end design conference (2005–2019); and has published over 50 titles — including “Responsive Web Design,” “Just Enough Research,” “Design For Real Life,” and “Design is a Job” — through A Book Apart, a small press he co-founded in 2010. His book, “Designing With Web Standards,” now in its 3rd Edition, has been translated into 15 languages and is considered a classic in the field. Jeffrey was a founding faculty member of the MFA Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts, and is the founder emeritus and former creative director of Happy Cog, a digital design studio in NYC, where he lives with his daughter and two cats.

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Joshua K. Briley
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth more than 5 stars...
Reviewed in the United States on 10 November 2005
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If you're shooting for accessible, valid, web design then you will want to read this book. It's a different approach than books written by Dan Cederholm, Eric Meyers, and other CSS/XHTML gurus who boast standards compliance. It fills the gaps that do not fall within the scopes of their books (I would recommend their books too). Never have I thought of adding a "hide" class to a div at the top of my document (that won't show up in a regular browser) that will allow a visually impaired user who uses a screen reader to skip the navigation menu. Nice idea. I think I'll use it.

Another thing I found interesting is his information on how certain browsers render background colors. Did you know that some of them render a "transparent" declaration as a black color?

Much to gain in this book... Most folks know about Quirks Mode and Standards Mode based on DTD's, but how many folks know about "Almost Standards Mode" and how it renders certain elements? Of course, he gives a detailed explanation on that as well.

This book is great for both the CSS purist who's looking for new ideas as well as the table based designer. Let's face it... we don't always have the final say on how a document will be laid out.

Zeldman covers it all. If you want to do yourself and your clients a favor you'll READ THIS BOOK
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lesteph
5.0 out of 5 stars A funny, smart and useful book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2003
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Without doubt, Zeldman is at the forefront of his field, and this book is a great collection of the concepts and practical tricks which underpin standards-based web design.
I came to it after reading the magazine site Zeldman runs, A List Apart. While it's useful to read individual articles by experts online, I wanted a more general guide to the whole subject, which this book provides.
The weakest aspect is probably the slow pace of the first half of the book. These sections make the case for standards-based design, which, while compelling, could be made much more concisely. Having said that, the joy of the book as a whole is Zeldman's discursive and amusing style which helps to keep you going through code examples which might otherwise be pretty dry. How many other authors 'break open the small salty snacks' with you when they've reached the final step of a code demonstration?
If you're in a hurry to learn CSS and XHTML, you might be best served by a Visual Quickstart guide based primarily on learning the tags. But if you take that approach, there's always a risk that you'll never fully grasp the reason for taking the extra trouble to create sites in this way. And alternatively if you just follow the many websites offering web standards tutorials, you risk missing the overview of the basics which this book presents to you in a logical order.
Overall, this book is as much about the history and the business case as the tags themselves. The end result is that you not only know the techniques, but you become an evangelist for web standards yourself.
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Oliver Klee
5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr überzeugende Einführung in standardkonformes Webdesign
Reviewed in Germany on 10 August 2003
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Jeffrey Zeldman bietet mit diesem Buch eine umfassende und unterhaltsame Einführung in aktuelles Webdesign. Die Techniken, die er zeigt, kommen aus der Praxis und lassen sich auch direkt einsetzen.
Der erste Teil beschäftigt sich damit, warum das 1998er-Webdesign mit ungültigem HTML, Table-Lay-out und browserspezifischen Code ein Problem darstellt.
Im zweiten Teil stellt Zeldman vor, wie sich diese Probleme mit standardkonformem Design lösen lassen. Als Nebeneffekte kommen dabei kleinere Seiten, kürzere Entwicklungszeiten und barrierefreie Sites heraus.
Im dritten Teil schließlich gibt der Autor eine kurze Übersicht über die zurzeit gebräuchlichen Browser sowie ihre Stärken und Schwächen.
Das Buch bringt denjenigen am meisten, die schon über etwas Erfahrung im Webdesign verfügen. Aber selbst für Veteranen, die sich in CSS und Content-Types denken, enthält "Designing with Web Standards" noch den einen oder anderen Kniff. Und nicht zuletzt bietet es sich an, dieses Buch auf dem Schreibtisch von Kollegen und Chefs zu "vergessen", wenn diese immer noch an "optimiert für Internet Explorer mit 1024x768" glauben und meinen, behindertengerechte Sites bestünden nur aus hässlich layoutetem Text.
Eine absolut lohnende Anschaffung für jeden, der Webdesign macht oder mit solchen Leuten zusammenarbeitet.
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seadog76
5.0 out of 5 stars A nice addition to Eric Meyer's O'Reilly CSS book
Reviewed in the United States on 22 July 2004
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Let me first say that I'm not really a fan of the author's personality, being a regular reader of his website, [...] (an amazing resource for CSS-based design). In fact, I had been purposely avoiding this book because out of all the writers on the site, he seems to be the biggest zealot for completely CSS-based design. I have always kept up on CSS for text and layouts but didn't really consider it viable until just within the last year or so, with Mozilla's browser family and Apple's Safari browser both doing tremendous jobs of actually rendering. Having said all that, a coworker of mine bought the book today and I read about 2/3 of it. I have to say I was impressed with the breadth of knowledge that the author displays, but more importantly, he is able to convey that knowledge into simple terms for non-geeks to understand. I think this book is a great stepping stone up from Eric Meyer's CSS book from O'Reilly (I have the first printing, a newer printing might be more updated). Zeldman breaks down DTDs, why to use them, when to use them, how to use them. He details how to build CSS-and-table designs, CSS-only designs, and all the nitty-gritty details in between. He talks about quirks in different browsers and how to code for them with graceful degredation in older browsers. This is a very informative book and converted a person who intentionally avoided it until now.
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Rob Green
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent introduction to web standards
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 December 2003
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Zeldman has hit the nail on the head perfectly with this book. The fact that he can incorperate some humour into the book that developers find funny just shows his experience in the field. I found that I'd read it cover to cover very quickly and was preaching much of what I'd read to other developers without even realising it.
Web standards are the future, and should be the present, if you need an introduction for beginners through advanced users then this is the book for you.
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