Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has updated his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. This new edition--now in full color--covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers since the first edition introduced the world to standards-based design. Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest, it remains an essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain.

Readers will learn from Jeffrey's insights as he demonstrates how web standards are driving search engine friendliness ("findability") and the Web 2.0 applications that have reinvigorated the medium and the online marketplace. Readers will discover new techniques to make CSS layouts work better across multiple browsers and ways to make web content more accessible.

Designing with Web Standards is an AIGA Design Press book, published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with AIGA.

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If you want to learn web design, this is NOT the book - 2009-05-31
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I want to learn web design, so I did some research on the topic. It seems everybody is saying this is a must-read for web designers. So I bought the book, read it and I must say this is NOT the book if you want to learn web design. If you don't know anything about HTML and CSS, this might be a OK intro book. Otherwise this is a total waste of time. I didn't learn any web design skills, and any sane person knows he needs to use web standard, except in reality not all browsers are created equal, so you have to resort to hacks to make it work, which author uses in the book and are definitely NOT the standard the author was advertising.

Do not order Kindle version! - 2009-04-12
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If I had known that the Table of Contents for this book wouldn't link to the chapters and that it was unsearchable on the Kindle I certainly wouldn't have put down $20, no matter the brilliance of the content. I consider this work a reference, not a novel to page through from front to back. Funny thing is, though, the TOC works fine on my iPhone Kindle app. Go figure.

Entertaining, witty, wasy to read, insightful. An excellent book - 2009-10-25
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The title (Designing with Web Standards) of Jeffrey Zeldman's book says it all - this book promoted accessible, usable, search engine friendly web design and development through the use of XHTML and CSS while debunking the myths surrounding web standards. Zeldman is a well recognized name among web developers and designers - he's the the founder of A List Apart, and co-founder of The Web Standards Project (WaSP). His writing is entertaining, witty, easy to read, and insightful - it's very much like the content we're used to reading at A List Apart. It's also fair to mention that this book has been edited by industy experts and influencial writers like Eric Myer. Any developer that works with the web should read this book along with JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford.

A good introduction - 2009-09-22
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The book is a good introduction for anyone who want to know how to build websites according to Web Standars. Despite some clues are a little old, it should be good a new updated version of the book including latest browsers like Internet Explorer 8. Anyway the book is nice and usefull to a new developer or designer.

Great book - 2009-05-11
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The book is great, shares knowledge that should be the foundation of anyone who works in the web industry,

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