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Designing With Web Standards
- By Jeffrey Zeldman
- Published May 14, 2003 by New Riders. Part of the Voices That Matter series.
- Copyright 2003
- Dimensions: 7 X 9
- Pages: 456
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-7357-1201-8
- ISBN-13: 978-0-7357-1201-0
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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.
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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47 of 53 people found the following review helpful
Wholeheartedly recommended,
By A Customer
This review is from: Designing With Web Standards (Paperback)
New Rider's slogan "Voices That Matter" is one that I generally take with a large pinch of salt. In Zeldman's case, that's true. If Tim Berners-Lee is the father of the internet, Zeldman and the team at the Web Standards Project are the net's midwives. The W3C wrote the standards (or recommendations as they apologetically and coyly them), whilst Zeldman and his gang set about the hard, political and (until now) thankless task of bullying (browser-beating?) Netscape and Microsoft to conform to the standards that they'd helped set. Having brokered the end of the Browser Wars, they turned their attentions to the WYSIWYG tools like Dreamweaver, GoLive and (ahem) FrontPage, actually advising Macromedia on how to make DMX conform to Web Standards.And now, this time, it's personal. Zeldman and the WaSP warriors are coming for you. "Though today's browsers support standards, tens of thousands of professional designers and developers continue to use outdated methods that yoke structure to... Read more
394 of 494 people found the following review helpful
Commits the very sins it condemns, By
This review is from: Designing With Web Standards (Paperback)
I came upon this book via glowing reviews on amazon, citations on websites, and exalted praise from cutting-edge web developers. This was THE book to read if you want to build websites that didn't rely on spaghetti code and deeply nested tables, I was told.I was greatly disappointed. While I appreciate the overall message of this book and some of the techniques are helpful, not only is it exasperating in its lack of information, but it actually commits the very sins that it relentlessly cites as the scourge of 99.9% of websites - redundancy, verbosity, and lack of clean, clear structure of what little information it imparts. -REDUNDANCY AND VERBOSITY GALORE The book really doesn't even get started until Chapter 6 on page 153 (and even that is being generous), after mind-numbing repetition in the form of exposition, bulleted lists, and executive summaries about why one should design and build websites using web standards. There's even a sentence on... Read more
306 of 389 people found the following review helpful
<h2 class="review">Designing With Web Standards</h2>, By Alec Pollak (NYC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Designing With Web Standards (Paperback)
<style type="faux/css">review { information: priceless format: real-world, example-based; clarity: crystal; history: eye-opening; audience: essential reading for ALL web profesionals; humor: witty and wise as always; timing: perfect - now is the time for standards and accessibility - zeldman explains why and how; why: save money, time and do the right thing; how: tons of techniques and proven tactics with real world examples; bottom-line: actively using dwws as a tool to move my agency and my clients towards standard compliant practices; } </style> |
Online Sample Chapters
XHTML by Example: A Hybrid Layout (Part I)
Downloadable Sample Chapter
Sample Chapter - 605 kb - Chapter 8 - XHTML by Example: A Hybrid Layout (Part I)
Sample Chapter - 915 kb - Chapter 10 - CSS in Action: A Hybrid Layout (Part II)
Errata
Errata for the book - Updated 01/07/04 - 43 kb - Errata2018.pdf
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