Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 288 pages
- Published by: friends of ED March 19, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1590598032
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1590598030
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 8 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Description
- Be inspired by ten web design lessons from ten of the worlds best web designers
- Get creative with cutting-edge XHTML, CSS, and DOM scripting techniques
- Learn breathtaking design skills while remaining standards-compliant
Here at friends of ED, we know that as a web designer or developer, your work involves more than just working to pay the bills. We know that each day, you strive to push the boundaries of your medium, unleashing your creativity in new ways to make your websites more engaging and attractive to behold, while still maintaining cross-browser support, standards compliance, and accessibility. That's why we got together ten of the world's most talented web designers to share their secrets with you. Web Standards Creativity is jam-packed with fresh, innovative design ideas. The topics range from essential CSS typography and grid design, effective styling for CMS-driven sites, and amazing PNG transparency techniques, to DOM scripting magic for creating layouts that change depending on browser resolution and user preference, and better print layouts for web pages. We're sure you will find something here to inspire you! This full-color book's examples are not just stunning to look at, but also fully standards-compliant, up-to-date, and tested in current browsers including Internet Explorer 7. Playing by the rules doesn't have to mean drab or dull websites—Web Standards can be fun!
About The Author
Andy is an internationally renowned web designer, developer and weblog author based in Brighton, England. Andy specializes in building attractive, accessible, and standards complaint web solutions. Andy enjoys writing about web techniques for sites such as digital-web.com and his work has been featured in numerous magazines, books, and websites around the world.
Andy is an internationally sought-after speaker, designer and consultant. He is creative director of Stuff and Nonsense (www.malarkey.co.uk), a design agency focusing on creative, accessible web. Andy is passionate about design and passionate about Web Standards, often bridging the gap between design and code.
He regularly trains designers and developers in the creative applications of Web Standards. He writes about aspects of design and popular culture on his personal web site, And All That Malarkey (www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk.) Soon to be released is his first book, \"Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design.\"
Ian Lloyd runs Accessify.com, a site dedicated to promoting web accessibility and providing tools for web developers. His personal site ‘Blog Standard Stuff‘, ironically, has nothing to do with standards for blogs (it's a play on words), although there is an occasional standards-related gem to be found there.
Ian works full-time for Nationwide Building Society where he tries his hardest to influence standards-based design ("to varying degrees!"). He is a member of the Web Standards Project, contributing to the Accessibility Task Force. Web standards and accessibility aside, he enjoys writing about his trips abroad and recently took a ‘year out' from work and all things web (but then ended up writing more in his year off than he ever has). He finds most of his time being taken up by a demanding old lady (relax, it's only his old Volkswagen camper van).
Ian recently wrote his first book for SitePoint entitled ‘Build Your First Web Site the Right Way with HTML and CSS‘ (in which he teaches web standards-based design to the complete beginner).
Cameron has a degree in law and one in science; naturally he picked a career in Web development. When pressed, he labels himself a \"Web Technologist\" because he likes to have a hand in graphic design, JavaScript, CSS, Perl (yes, Perl), and anything else that takes his fancy that morning. While running his own business (www.themaninblue.com) he\'s consulted and worked for government departments, nonprofit organisations, large corporations and tiny startups.
As well as helping his list of clients, Cameron has taught numerous workshops around the country and spoken at conferences worldwide, such as @Media and Web Essentials. He has also written a book &emdash; The JavaScript Anthology &emdash; which is one of the most complete question and answer resources on modern JavaScript techniques.
Rob is a graphic designer, artist, writer, and thinker known for an almost neurotically meticulous attention to detail. Since the late 1990s, Rob has designed print and interactive solutions for clients in such disparate industries as entertainment, travel, healthcare, education, publishing, e-commerce, and more.
When he is not absorbed in design, Rob spends most of his time scrutinizing music and film, writing haiku, screen printing, taking photos, and cruising the streets of his hometown Philadelphia on his BMX. He also writes about these topics and all things design on his personal web site, RobWeychert.com.
Ethan has been designing and developing online for nearly a decade, and is still amazed and excited at how much there is to learn. He is the co-founder and design lead of Vertua Studios (www.vertua.com), a standards-savvy design studio that builds elegant, usable Web sites.
Ethan has emerged as a well-respected voice on the subject of standards-based Web design. He has been a featured speaker at Web Design World and the South by Southwest Interactive conference, and runs the popular (if infrequently-updated) sidesh0w.com weblog. His clients have included such names as New York Magazine,
Harvard University, Disney, and State Street Bank.
When he grows up, Ethan wants to be an unstoppable robot ninja (www.unstoppablerobotninja.com). Beep.
Dan Rubin spends his days blending music, design, typography and web standards with the sunny beaches of South Florida. From vocal coaching and performing to graphic design and (almost literally) everything in between, Dan does his best to spread his talent as thin and as far as he possibly can while still leaving time for a good cup of tea and the occasional nap.
His passion for all things creative and artistic isn't a solely selfish endeavor either&emdash;you don't have to hang around too long before you'll find him waxing educational about a cappella jazz and barbershop harmony (his design of roundersquartet.com is just one example of these two worlds colliding), interface design, usability, web standards, graphic design in general, and which typeface was on the bus that just drove by.
In addition to his contributions to sites including Blogger, the CSS Zen Garden, and
Microsoft's ASP.net portal, Dan is a contributing author of Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation (2nd Edition, friends of ED, 2003), a technical reviewer for Beginning CSS Web Development (Apress, 2006), coauthor of Web Standards Creativity (friends of ED, 2007), writes about web standards, design and life in general on his blog, superfluousbanter.org, publishes podcasts on livefromthe101.com, and his professional work can be found at his agency's site, webgraph.com.
Jeff Croft is a web and graphic designer focused on web standards&emdash;based development who lives and works Lawrence, KS. As the senior designer at World Online, Jeff works on such award-winning standards-based sites as Lawrence.com and ljworld.com. Jeff also runs a popular blog and personal site at jeffcroft.com, where he writes about many topics, including modern web and graphic design.
In addition to his work with World Online, Jeff has also worked at two major universities in an effort to bring web standards to the education sector, and completed many freelance and contract jobs for varying clients.
When he's not hunched over a computer, Jeff enjoys photography, music, film, television, and a good night out on the town.
Mark is a typographic designer from Cardiff, UK. He's worked in Sydney, London, and Manchester as an Art Director for design agencies for clients such as BBC, T-Mobile, and British Airways. For the past three years, Mark has been working as a Senior Designer for the BBC designing web sites and web applications.
He is an active member of the International Society of Typographic Designers and writes a design journal at www.markboulton.co.uk.
Simon is lead web developer at Agenzia, and has worked on numerous web projects for record labels, high-profile recording artists, and leading visual artists and illustrators, including The Libertines, Black Convoy, and Project Facade. Simon also oversees a production line of business, community, and voluntary sector web sites, and passionately ensures everything he builds is accessible and usable, and complies with current web standards. Simon regularly reviews CSS-based web sites for Stylegala, and does his best to keep his highly popular blog (collylogic.com) updated with noise about web standards, music, film, travels, and more web standards.
Reader Reviews
Every now and then, there a book comes along that really makes you stop and take notice. We review plenty of tech books on this site, and each one is a tome of knowledge in its own right. Web Standards Solutions though, is a work of art unto itself. Each page is full-color, with entire pages varying in color theme from the next. It feels as though you're thumbing through a high-end design catalog. I'd rank it right up there with The Zen of CSS Design. Not only will this book serve to grace your coffee table, and make visitors "ooh and aah" over your fancy role as a web designer, it is also chalk full of helpful code and graphics tips. As with any multi-author book, each chapter has its own distinctiveness. Rather than attempt to down-play this, as with tech books, the chapters reflect the personalities of the author, both in tone and design. Here's a run-down of each chapter's topic... Chapter 1 by Simon Collison In this chapter, Colly covers the design process behind two of his acclaimed designs. He shows how to have solid markup, but at the same time create a distressed looking website in keeping with a band's musical style. The sites that are discussed are: The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things. Chapter 2 by Dan Rubin This chapter is also about a band website, Lifehouse. Dan explains the CMS limitations he was up against, and how he creatively used CSS to wrangle the underlying XHTML under presentational control. He covers everything from his initial sketches
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