| OverviewNo matter how visually appealing or packed with content your Web
site is, it isn't succeeding if it's not reaching the
widest possible audience. If you get this guide, you can be assured
it will! By deconstructing a series of real-world Web sites, author
and Web designer extraordinaire Dan Cederholm outlines 10
strategies for creating standards-based designs that provide
flexibility, readability, and user control—key components of
every successful Web site. Each chapter starts out with an example
of what Dan refers to as an "unbulletproof"
concept—an existing site that employs a traditional approach
and its associated pitfalls. Dan then deconstructs that approach,
noting its downsides and then making the site over using Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS). By the end of each chapter, you'll have
replaced traditional, bloated, inaccessible page components with
lean markup and CSS. The guide culminates with a chapter that
pieces together all of the page components discussed in prior
chapters into a single page template. Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionNo matter how visually appealing or packed with content your Web site is, it isn’t succeeding if it’s not reaching the widest possible audience. If you get this guide, you can be assured it will! By deconstructing a series of real-world Web sites, author and Web designer extraordinaire Dan Cederholm outlines 10 strategies for creating standards-based designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control—key components of every successful Web site. Each chapter starts out with an example of what Dan refers to as an “unbulletproof” concept—an existing site that employs a traditional approach and its associated pitfalls. Dan then deconstructs that approach, noting its downsides and then making the site over using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). By the end of each chapter, you’ll have replaced traditional, bloated, inaccessible page components with lean markup and CSS. The guide culminates with a chapter that pieces together all of the page components discussed in prior chapters into a single page template. | Amazon.com Review Book Description 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 Desing, 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 sucessful 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.
Guest Reviewer: Jeffrey Zeldman  Modern web design is user-centered, accessible, and standards-based. In other words, it's completely different from the stuff we did in the 1990s. There are two vital aspects to designing with web standards: (1) understanding why (2) knowing how Know-how is what Dan Cederholm has in spades, and in this updated edition of his essential text, he shares that knowledge with humor and clarity. Dan's is one of the smartest minds in CSS and HTML. He is internationally known as a deep and innovative coder. But his background is in design and production, working on real-world sites for no-nonsense businesses like Google, ESPN, and Fast Company, Inc. This grounding in practical user interface design and daily production issues makes Dan a great teacher of CSS, because he never loses sight of the things designers want to do (not to mention the things designers' clients and bosses demand of them). From multi-column layouts that stay crispy in milk, to maintaining fine control of web fonts and sizes without alienating users: just about every problem a modern web designer faces is examined, with solutions ranging from good to better to best. This second edition includes everything you need to know about taking Internet Explorer 7 into account. Little else has changed. And that's as it should be, for this book is a classic. It belongs on every web designer's shelf. -- Jeffrey Zeldman, author, Designing With Web Standards 2nd Edition
About the Author Dan Cederholm is a Web designer and author living in Massachusetts. He's the founder of SimpleBits, a tiny design studio. A recognized expert in the field of standards-based Web design, Dan has worked with Google, MTV, ESPN, Fast Company, Blogger, Odeo, and others. He embraces flexible, adaptable design using Web standards through his design work, writing, and speaking. Dan is the author of two best-selling books: Bulletproof Web Design (New Riders) and Web Standards Solutions (Friends of ED). Dan also runs the popular weblog SimpleBits, where he writes articles and commentary on the Web, technology, and life. He also plays a mean ukulele and occasionally wears a baseball cap. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 111 reviews. Good read, not for real beginners though, 2009-06-26 Reviewer rating: A good book if you have already played with CSS and read some CSS reference work or a more beginner-orientated book, such as Rachel Andrew's CSS Anthology. Dan does not start back from the basics as Rachel nicely does, but Bulletproof Web Design is very effective in teaching you three essential skills:
- make your website resistant to scaling and variable resolutions
- organize a clean and flexible "table-like" layout with floats
- remain readable for tiny devices and low-end browsers.
A very pleasant read with a constant and comfortable rhythm, teaching you a limited number of concepts but then crucial stuff for designing a clean and robust CSS website. Well done Dan. | Sets the bar for style books. Outstanding examples., 2009-04-20 Reviewer rating: You would hope a book on web style would be easy to read and well-presented. Well, this book lives up to its hype. No boring opinions. It's styled as a step-by-step tutorial. It's the best technical web I own. What a refreshing, pleasant, and exceptionally well-researched and well-presented book! He takes several real-life web example pages and re-does them according to his bulletproof method.
We re-did our entire website according to this book and everything was better: clickthroughs, reduced bounce rates, faster page loads, and better maneuverability.
I also suggest buying "Letting Go of the Words" by Reddish, which I consider a great accompaniment to this book. "Letting Go.." will teach you how to take the concepts in the Bulletproof book even further by testing actual layouts.
You do NOT need to know CSS or style sheets to read this book. In fact this book will teach you what you need to know. But just enough - it is not a CSS reference.
Talk about a sobering experience on how bad my web pages were! I enjoyed a healthy 20% improvement within the first few changes.
The other books I read are all just awful, so make sure to buy this one. I have shown this to my other engineering/web friends and they are really impressed. | Good INstructional Book, 2009-03-29 Reviewer rating: This book addresses some aspects of web design that I had not previously considered. I liked the way in which the affect of each CSS change is illustrated, such that the reader can see the result when each CSS rule is applied, as opposed to simply showing the end result of applying a bunch of rules. I was able to glean a number of new ideas from reading this book and a better understanding of the construction of quality web pages. | Good intro to CSS-based design, 2009-02-10 Reviewer rating: This book is ideal for those who learned table-based web design and want to modernize to CSS. Each example converts such a design to one that uses less code and will still work if text is resized, or images aren't loaded, or if a blind user is using a screen reader to access the site, etc.
I've been using CSS for a while and I'm learning a few tricks/best practices, but since much of the book is an argument for the CSS approach, I'm not the ideal reader.
If you're not sure if this book is for you, you might try reading old articles on alistapart.com which explain some of the same concepts. | Bulletproof web design, 2008-12-11 Reviewer rating: What can i say ? this book is amazing , this book rocks . I feel iam reading interesting story , This is expected from writer like Dan Cederholm who worked for Google,MTV,Blogger,ODEO,ESPN . The book illustrate the bulletproof approach of every design tip by showing you the usual bad way and illustrate why it's unbulletproof so you must avoid it, then illustrate the bulletproof way step by step with figures and show the various solution of the specific problem and stick to the best practice , the illustration is easy to follow with real world projects and case studies , at the end of the book the writer build on the knowledge of every chapter in the book a bulletproof project using every technique learned from the previous chapters and that interested me alot , after all this book is suitable for beginners and professionals and should be in every web developer library due to the the great material in it . |
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