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Web Designer's Reference: An Integrated Approach To Web Design With Xhtml And Css

Web Designer's Reference: An Integrated Approach To Web Design With Xhtml And Css

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A comprehensive and compact all-in-one guide
Review: Although this book has XHTML in the title, don't let it scare you off, it simply means that the advice author gives is XHTML standard compliant. On the other hand, if you are looking for a comprehensive XHTML guide, you may want to look elsewhere, even though there is a reference section specifically about this standard, which is an XML reformulation of HTML, in one of the appendixes.

Another acronym in the title - CSS - cascading style sheets is the preferred mechanism for implementation of design on the web. CSS is growing in popularity as it allows separation of content and presentation on great scale at the same time matching very well to the wide array of http serving technologies from simplest static web pages to dynamic ASP.NET, PHP, and other forms of web sites.

Web design with CSS is in the core of this book, author does excellent job introducing readers to the methodology, and teaches to use deferent aspects: text, images, navigation, layout. The advice is not limited to CSS, on the contrarily, you will see plenty of tips on graphical image preparation for the web, various techniques, JavaScript code, and even some FormMail and PHP suggestions. The later two strictly not belong to the realm of the web design, but this is what makes this book different from many other books, - the out of the box paradigm.

This book was written by an actual artist who is not afraid to let his opinion known on many subjects discussed. You don't have to agree with author on everything, but when you are looking for advise it will be right there in your face, you won't have to dig for it or second-guess it.

This is an excellent well-structured book filled with useful examples. I highly recommend it.


Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great book
Review: i have had the hardest time trying to use css and xhtml consistently but this book has made it simple and easy to understand. i have already updated my site http://www.chriscrippen.com to both validate my xhtml and my css file and i have only gotten through half the book. craig grannell has written a very good book, anybody struggling like i was this is a definite must read!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Could be a classic?
Review: Now this is the way a computer book should be written - short, clear, to the point, great examples, real world work arounds, firm opinions on standards and most importantly, real solutions to problems a web designer will face integrating Xhtml and Css. I'm new to the web development world and I want to build a website now, but I want to do it right observing standards that will be in effect for the future. I don't have the time or the energy to wade through a telephone sized tome that spends a 150 pages explaning the beauty of CSS, nor do I have the patience (or the backround) for the so called definitive guides that seem to be talking to the "club". Yes, I've bought them all, and I can safely say that if you are in a similar place as me (you want to build a website now), than buy this book. Thanks Craig! Oh, by the way, your other book on Dreamweaver MX2004 is just as good.


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