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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
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.
Designing With Web Standards
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Anonymous
March 5th, 2010 at 4:53 am
As a site designer Master CIW who really care about usability, accessibility and consistency of design, I had high expectations when I bought this book. Alas, after reading it from beginning to end, I found to be less satisfactory. Points, while the author on usability and accessibility are good and the brand, some of his theories CSS-based design most beautiful sound in the press they look in practice. This is not entirely blame the author, the real culprits, as we know, are the browser vendors, such as their insistence on “market differentiation” undermines all the efforts of designers to develop a usable website accessible and attractive – and do so in a time and cost-effectiveness. But the author seems to be the bearer of a set of “rules” that are not – and under current conditions, it can not – exist. This book gives the answers sometimes contradictory and confusing – and diminishes the credibility of the principles of good health. I believe the author – and readers – would have been better if he used the term “best practices” rather than deception “standard.” Moreover, the dismissal of the author of those who say that this method requires more time (and money) is more than a little “unfair, given that the man manages his own business, and does not respond to non-technical Bosses who want their content Web “yesterday”. It is simply not in the real world in this sense. In summary, the book has some value – but some of the “standard” design ideas are just dreams right now – and will remain until the browser vendors are forced by state regulators United to come online. Finally, although this may seem picky, I think it is important – I have a real problem with a man who claims to be a veteran web business, but use the correct term “Web Site” instead of “Web Site .. ” Buy the book – but buy used, but not worth the price. Rating: 3 / 5
Anonymous
March 5th, 2010 at 4:55 am
Here Zeldman tries to translate the cult Zeldman in some of your hard-earned. There are two types of comments here. The 4 and 5 stars have been written by suck-up persuasion in hopes of winning favor with Zeldman. 1 The stars are those Kahone to tell it like it is – there are in this garbage. E ‘the total abandonment of the substance in favor of style – not the kind you hope CSS. It’s all cutting edge, attitude and posture, giving the suck-up what he needs. You need a book that will show you how to do constructive things. You do not need to undergo a personality cult, which is Zeldman is. Rating: 1 / 5
Dhr P. Van Bemmelen
March 5th, 2010 at 6:41 am
The title of this book should be “redesigned with web standards” only shows how rewrite of existing web pages. N. graphic design is done in the book is drawing from existing pages. Only the application (HTML and CSS) is covered. This book spent a lot of text describing why the old ways of creating web pages are no longer good enough. Again and again we read things like: “In this decade, industry firs, design for the web is like feeding a room full of finicky children. To build sites that work, we learned diligently to accommodate the unique needs of every browser support. Browser now eat all the same things as nutrients, but many professionals do not understand this and are still in ruins, M & Ms in soufflés. “If we Zeldman said once, the book could be 20% thinner and less tedious to read. He could have covered topics that were really necessary. Many ways to make the browser the good old time. But very little on the basis / structure of how things are done in a modern way. The chapter on XML is irrelevant, this book is not about XML. The coverage CSS is not enough: only a few syntax and only few “priority rules described. text in general is unclear, vague, and leaves you with many questions. The fact that Eric Meyer is a technical editor for this book that makes you think maybe Eric Meyer is a genius when it comes to book writing. Rating: 1 / 5
Wei Li
March 5th, 2010 at 7:23 am
I want to learn web design, so I did some research on the subject. It seems that everyone says it is a must-read for Web designers. So I bought the book, read it and I must say that this is not the book if you want to learn web design. If you know nothing about HTML and CSS, this could be an intro book on OK. Otherwise, it’s a total waste of time. I learned some skills in web design, and any sane person knows that he needs to use web standards, but in reality, not all browsers are created equal, and therefore the need to hacks to make it work, the author uses are probably in the rule book and the author has been advertising. Rating: 2 / 5
Anonymous
March 5th, 2010 at 9:43 am
. . . and even a couple more. Good examples of real world, and strong momentum in the right direction. Rating: 5 / 5