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Bulletproof Web design : improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS

Author: Dan Cederholm
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : New Riders, ©2008.
Series: Voices that matter.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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From the Publisher: 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 extraordinaire, Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control-key components  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Dan Cederholm
ISBN: 9780321509024 0321509021
OCLC Number: 166315610
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xiii, 297 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
1: Flexible Text --
Size text using keywords and percentages or ems to allow user control and maximum flexibility --
Common approach --
Weighing our options --
Bulletproof approach --
Why it's bulletproof --
Flexible base: now what? --
Working with keywords and percentages --
Flexible text using ems --
Summary --
2: Scalable Navigation --
Provide site navigation that scales to any text size or content amount --
Common approach --
Why it's not bulletproof --
Bulletproof approach --
Why it's bulletproof --
Variation using ems --
Additional examples --
Summary --
3: Expandable Rows --
Resist specifying height and plan for vertical expansion of horizontal page components --
Common approach --
Why it's not bulletproof --
Bulletproof approach --
Why it's bulletproof --
Another example of expanding --
Summary --
4: Creative Floating --
Use floats to achieve grid-like results --
Common approach --
Why it's not bulletproof --
Bulletproof approach --
Why it's bulletproof --
Summary --
5: Indestructible Boxes --
Plan for the unknown when constructing styles boxes --
Common approach --
Why it's not bulletproof --
Bulletproof approach --
Why it's bulletproof --
Other rounded-corner techniques --
Box hinting --
Summary. 6: No Images? No CSS? No Problem! --
Ensure that content is still readable in the absence of images or CSS --
Common approach --
Why it's not bulletproof --
Bulletproof approach --
Why it's bulletproof --
With or without style --
Dig dug test --
Bulletproofing tools --
Summary --
7: Convertible Tables --
Strip the presentation from data tables, and refinish with CSS --
Common approach --
Why it's not bulletproof --
Bulletproof approach --
Why it's bulletproof --
Summary --
8: Fluid And Elastic Layouts --
Experiment with page layouts that expand and contract --
Common approach --
Why it's not bulletproof --
Bulletproof approach --
Why it's bulletproof --
Em-based layouts --
Summary --
9: Putting it all together --
Apply bulletproof concepts to an entire page design--
Goal --
Why it's bulletproof --
Construction --
CSS adjustments for IE --
Conclusion --
Index.
Series Title: Voices that matter.
Responsibility: Dan Cederholm.
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Abstract:

From the Publisher: 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 extraordinaire, 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 covers several popular fluid and elastic-width layout techniques and pieces together all of the page components discussed in prior chapters into a single-page template.

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