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| Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-Case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Cederholm
Publisher: New Riders
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 5907
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 312
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0321509021
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7
EAN: 9780321509024
ASIN: 0321509021
Publication Date: August 23, 2007
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Recommended July 6, 2006
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
I'm on chapter 3 of this book and I love it. Its easy to read due to authors language and prose, its all colour and very enjoyable.
I read other reviews on this book thoroughly (also on Amazon.com site) and this helped me decide this was the next book to go for.
One question I didn't wasn't sure about before buying the book was just how skilled in XHTML and CSS I had to be as this book is Intermediate/Advanced (as stated on the back cover). Well, I would recommend that you know the basics of CSS such as defining lists using < UL > etc. The author jumps straight in to solving niggly cross-browser problems and so won't explain how padding and margins work etc.
I would say its also good to experience some of these problems that web designers encounter such as text not resizing on IE when it does on Firefox, probelms creating scaleable site navigation menus and so on.
It is a cookbook. I found it handy to be typing some of the CSS into Dreamweaver just to see exactly what was going on. Athough I was a bit peeved at having to go and get the laptop at first, it did improve my overall understanding of the problem in the end.
In conclusion: This book tackles common issues in a logical manner and does indeed attempt to make them Bulletproof. Recommended for people like me who have been working with XHTML / CSS for a little while but need to tackle common problems properly.
Best in it's class May 23, 2006
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
The quality of the material in this book is fantastic. It also one of the few books that actually has colour photos/screenshots. I couldn't recommend this book enough. Dan's other book , web standards solutions is also worth a read.
Excelllent guide for any web developer March 3, 2006
5 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent collection of techniques for improving and strengthening your css based website.
Bulletproof Web Design February 15, 2006
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book will set you on the right path to the way web design should be. It's well thought out easy to follow chapters break down the essentials of XHTML and CSS making it easily understandable and interesting. I read the book cover to cover in one sitting. As someone with little knowledge and understanding of CSS this book has help me enormously and now I look at the code view as much as the design view. Highly recommended.
Something for Everyone December 20, 2005
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
Another fine book from Dan Cederholm. This time around he divvies a typical web page down to its components - text, navigation, boxes and rows and the layout itself and explains and demonstrates the most bulletproof way of implementing them in a standards-compliant way.In each chapter he'll pluck a real-world example to deconstruct, tell you why it's not bulletproof and offer a rebuild in a very easy to follow manner using XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets. He'll then explain why his solution is bulletproof. There's something here for everyone, I consider myself pretty knowledgeable on the CSS front but I've said "Ohhhh, that's neat" a few times already (I'm hopping around the book). Which is another point, it's very accessible in that respect - no reading chapters 1 to 4 before tackling the issues presented in chapter 5 (hypothetical use of numbers). Beginner or expert alike, I think you'll like this book a lot.
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