Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition)
- 432 pages
- 16 hours of reading
The ultimate resource for standards-based Web design, updated and enhanced for current and future browsers.
Renowned as a pivotal figure in web standards and design, this author's extensive work and publications have profoundly shaped the discourse around web creation. Their contributions emphasize accessibility, usability, and semantic correctness, consistently advocating for high-quality web design principles through writings and lectures. With an influence that spans from theoretical foundations to practical implementation, they stand as an indispensable authority in the field of digital design.






The ultimate resource for standards-based Web design, updated and enhanced for current and future browsers.
From advanced selectors to generated content, and from gradients, shadows, and rounded corners to full-blown animations, CSS3 is a universe of creative possibilities. No one can better guide you through these galaxies than world-renowned designer, author, and CSS superstar Dan Cederholm. Learn what works, how it works, and how to work around browsers where it doesn't work
HTML5 is the longest HTML specification ever written. It is also the most powerful, and in some ways, the most confusing. What do accessible, content-focused standards-based web designers and front-end developers need to know? And how can we harness the power of HTML5 in today’s browsers?
Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design
As the preferred technology for web design, cascading style sheets (CSS) enable designers and developers to maintain consistent styles across multiple pages. This book showcases high-profile, real-world websites crafted by renowned designers using CSS. Each chapter explores a designer's process from inception to completion, detailing the unique challenges faced and how they were overcome. Readers will gain insights into what each designer might have done differently, along with various CSS tips and techniques utilized for each site. Key learnings include essential preliminaries to address before starting a site, strategies for tackling browser compatibility issues, best practices for using XHTML with CSS, and methods for integrating Flash content into an XHTML and CSS framework. Additionally, it covers implementing features like drop shadows, drop-down menus, bounding boxes, and rollovers, as well as developing sites that can manage continuous streams of up-to-date information. This resource is ideal for designers with an intermediate to advanced understanding of CSS who seek to elevate their skills to a professional level. Wrox Professional guides are crafted by working programmers to address the real-world needs of developers and IT professionals, providing relevant examples and practical solutions to enhance their work.
Les CSS sont aujourd'hui un incontournable pour tous les web designers ; des sélecteurs avancés à la génération de contenu, en passant par les web fonts, les dégradés, les ombres et les arrondis, jusqu'aux animations les plus complètes, CSS3 offre tout un univers de possibilités créatrices. Nul ne pouvait mieux vous guider à travers ces galaxies que le web designer de renom, auteur et superstar des CSS, Dan Cederholm, qui dans cette nouvelle édition mise à jour, vous présente de nouvelles propriétés et techniques, avec notamment un tout nouveau chapitre sur les mises en page à petite échelle (agencement en multicolonnes, Flexbox). Découvrez avec lui ce qui marche, comment ça marche et que faire quand ça ne marche pas ! Source : 4e de couv.]