Daniel Cederholm Books

This updated and expanded Special Edition of Dan Cederholm's best-selling work focuses on web standards, which are the technology specifications set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These standards ensure that web designers and browser manufacturers use consistent technology syntax, enabling content delivery to a broad audience and ensuring future compatibility. They enhance compatibility across various devices, including screen readers and mobile phones. HTML, XHTML, and CSS exemplify these technologies. This essential guide helps you understand the advantages of implementing web standards and how to apply them effectively. While XHTML and CSS are well-known, many web developers still overlook their benefits and the importance of adherence. The challenge lies in truly grasping these advantages and implementing the standards efficiently. The book is organized into 16 concise chapters, each addressing different web standards concepts and offering multiple solutions to common problems. You'll explore creating multicolumn layouts, optimizing image replacement techniques, and effectively using tables and lists. This modular approach allows for quick comprehension and practical application of web standards essentials.

No matter how visually appealing or content-packed a Web site may be, if it's not adaptable to a variety of situations and reaching the widest possible audience, it isn't really succeeding. In Bulletproof Web Design, author and Web designer Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control-key components of every successful site. Each chapter starts out with an example of an unbulletproof site-one that employs a traditional HTML-based approach-which Dan then deconstructs, pointing out its limitations. He then gives the site a make-over using XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), so you can see how to replace bloated code with lean markup and CSS for fast-loading sites that are accessible to all users. Finally, he pieces together all of the page components discussed in prior chapters into a single-page template. You'll learn to: Size text using keywords and percentages to allow more user control, Provide site navigation that scales to any text size or amount of content, Plan for vertical expansion of horizontal page components, Use floats to achieve grid-like results, Plan for the unknown when constructing styled boxes, Ensure that content is still readable in the absence of images or CSS, Strip the presentation from data tables, and rebuild with CSS, Experiment with page layouts that expand and contract. Book jacket.