Designing With Web Standards

Posted on 01 September 2017 by Jeffrey Zeldman

You code And code And code You build only to rebuild You focus on making your site compatible with almost every browser or wireless device ever put out there Then along comes a new device or a new browser, and you start all over again.You can get off the merry go round.It s time to stop living in the past and get away from the days of spaghetti code, insanely nested table layouts, tags, and other redundancies that double and triple the bandwidth of even the simplest sites Instead, it s time for forward compatibility.Isn t it high time you started designing with web standards Standards aren t about leaving users behind or adhering to inflexible rules Standards are about building sophisticated, beautiful sites that will work as well tomorrow as they do today You can t afford to design tomorrow s sites with yesterday s piecemeal methods.Jeffrey teaches you to Slash design, development, and quality assurance costs or do great work in spite of constrained budgets Deliver superb design and sophisticated functionality without worrying about browser incompatibilities Set up your site to work as well five years from now as it does today Redesign in hours instead of days or weeks Welcome new visitors and make your content visible to search engines Stay on the right side of accessibility laws and guidelines Support wireless and PDA users without the hassle and expense of multiple versions Improve user experience with faster load times and fewer compatibility headaches Separate presentation from structure and behavior, facilitating advanced publishing workflows New Download [ Designing With Web Standards ] Author [ Jeffrey Zeldman ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Forward compatibility Reduced site maintenance Increased extensibility More users And big cost savings That s what this book is about Jeffrey Zeldman of the The Daily Report leads readers through the why s and hows of building web sites using the established standards of Structure XHTML , Presentation CSS , and Behavior ECMAScript, DOM Since most web site decision makers don t yet grasp the significance and business reasons for moving to a pure, standards based design, Zeldman spend Forward compatibili...I heard this book was like web standards Bible Well Let s just say I was seriously underwhelmed Sure enough, it came out a long time ago, when web standards wasn t something every web professional had heard about, and in my humble opinion it should have stayed as 1st edition, if the re release was going to be as lazy as it turned out to be I read 3rd edition and it s just ridiculous a 2009 book talking about IE5, Netscape, table based layouts, and spending well over hundred of pages on co I heard this book was like web standards Bible Well Let s just say I was seriously underwhelmed Sure enough, it came out a long time ago, when web standards wasn t something every web professional had heard about, and in my humble opinion it should have stayed as 1st edition, if the re release was going to be as lazy as it turned out to be I read 3rd edition and it s just ridiculous a 2009 book talking about IE5, Netscape, table based layouts, and spending well over hundred of pages on convincing readers why they should pay attention to web standards Witty humor falls flat when the things it s poking fun at are no longer valid Heck, even some recommendations are no longer valid.As for actual web standards, this book is completely void of detail You won t learn how to design with web standards from it you wi...Jeffrey Zeldman Ethan Marcotte s Designing with Web Standards 3rd Edition provides an excellent overview of the issues involved in designing for the web using a modern, standards based approach It is by no means a comprehensive treatise on the technologies that must be mastered that would require 1000s of pages It does serve admirably as a guide for experience...I have been building websites since tables were the latest and greatest in the web and animated gifs were everywhere.I have seen some reviews here that think this book is out of date and not relevant and that is the undermine it s importance Once this book came out I had an argument with employers and clients as to why things had to be done differently because it was finally a discussion of web standards to a much larger audience If you are in the web design and development field today it migh I have been building websites since tables were the latest and greatest in the web and animated gifs were everywhere.I have seen some reviews here that think this book is out of date and not relevant and that is the undermine it s importance Once this book came out I had an argument with employers and clients as to why things had to be done differently beca...Skip the first 43 pages if you ve never built a website before, they re written as a justification as to why to design with web standards and their arguments range from lame and antiquated like using the cost of T1s as the justification forconcise html to common sense ones that make you think Yeah, well, Duh Did I really have to spend 10 minutes reading this argument I agree, move on Correction The first four chapters of this book are fluffy reasons why to design with...A lot of the issues raised in this book are sort of irrelevant to someone DIY ing websites, but I still learned a whole ton about semantic markup and how one would effectively incorporate behavioral aspects into web sites The reason standards based web design is so important, after all, is because in the end it seems to save a lot of time and headache, and so these lessens may prove fruitful If you read this though prepare to skim past large sections where he rants about how the web was in the A lot of the issues raised in this book are sort of irrelevant to someone DIY ing websites, but I still learned a whole ton about semantic markup and how one would effectively incorporate behavioral aspects into web sites The reason standards based web design is so important, after all, is beca...At the moment you decide to make some money by building websites, read this It s one of those books that you don t borrow from a friend Buy it, read it and let is somewhere so you can refer back from time to time.Oh come on, I edited it Like I m going to give it less than five stars It s good.The third edition of essential reading for anyone who works on the web.What can I say, this was a classic in its time Changed the way web development happened Unblocked a lot of the nonsense caused by the browser wars At this point it s probably rather out of date, but great to read for the purpose of the history of the web.

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01 September 2017

Jeffrey Zeldman