Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with XHTML, CSS, and DOM Scripting

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  • Be inspired by 10 web design lessons from 10 of the world's best web designers
  • Get creative with cutting-edge XHTML, CSS, and DOM scripting techniques
  • Learn breathtaking design skills while remaining standards-compliant

Here at friends of ED, we know that as a web designer or developer, your work involves more than just working to pay the bills. We know that each day, you strive to push the boundaries of your medium, unleashing your creativity in new ways to make your websites more engaging and attractive to behold, while still maintaining cross-browser support, standards compliance, and accessibility.

That's why we got together 10 of the world's most talented web designers to share their secrets with you. Web Standards Creativity is jam-packed with fresh, innovative design ideas. The topics range from essential CSS typography and grid design, effective styling for CMS-driven sites, and astonishing PNG transparency techniques, to DOM scripting magic for creating layouts that change depending on browser resolution and user preference, and better print layouts for web pages. We're sure you will find something here to inspire you!

This full-color book's examples are not just stunning to look at, but also fully standards-compliant, up-to-date, and tested in current browsers including Internet Explorer 7. Playing by the rules doesn't have to mean drab or dull websites—Web Standards can be fun!

Author(s): Cameron Adams, Mark Boulton, Andy Clarke, Simon Collison, Jeff Croft, Derek Featherstone, Ian Lloyd, Ethan Marcotte, Dan Rubin, Rob Weychert (auth.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Apress
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 288
Tags: Programming Techniques

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Semantic Structure, Dirty Pretty Presentation....Pages 2-23
Taming a Wild CMS with CSS, Flash, and JavaScript....Pages 24-49
New York Magazine: My, What a Classy <body>....Pages 50-76
Designing for Outside the Box....Pages 78-107
Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design....Pages 108-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Grid Design for the Web....Pages 130-154
Bridging the Type Divide: Classic Typography with CSS....Pages 156-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Print Magic: Using the DOM and CSS to Save the Planet....Pages 182-206
Creating Dynamic Interfaces Using JavaScript....Pages 208-241
Accessible Sliding Navigation....Pages 242-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-266