Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Voices That Matter)
by Andy Clarke, Molly E. HolzschlagSign in to Goodreads to see your friends' reviews of this book.
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Read in August, 2008
recommends it for:
Web developers; Web designers
I enjoy reading Andy Clarke's blog, and really identify with people like Andy who are trying to bridge the gap between visual, graphically oriented designers and people who are technical, code-based, linear thinkers in the Web development field. I even hate using that distinction, because I never fit it in any either/or fashion.
I picked up this book in part because it really is a beautiful book: rich, elegant, luxurious. Reading through it, though, I'm finding that, as someone who has done p...more
I picked up this book in part because it really is a beautiful book: rich, elegant, luxurious. Reading through it, though, I'm finding that, as someone who has done p...more
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Read in April, 2007
There's code here and there on my personal website that goes back to 1994 or so, when I built my first webpage by hand and hosted it on my personal account on schenectady.ecn.purdue.edu (try typing that five times fast). And HTML 1.1 served me just fine for the next 10 years. Right around the time that I would have probably needed to really dive in and modernize things around here, I moved much of the site over to MovableType, which took care of enough that I could put it off for a little bit lo...more
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Read in February, 2008
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web designers
An excellent read for anyone wanting to take their standards-based web design to the next level. I love focusing on a content-out approach to design. Not only a CSS discussion, this book provides excellent information on grid based design and looking outside the web for inspiration.
My only complaint has to do with the argument that we really need to design for cutting edge browsers and not worry about how the design translates to older browsers that are still widely used. I still believe ...more
My only complaint has to do with the argument that we really need to design for cutting edge browsers and not worry about how the design translates to older browsers that are still widely used. I still believe ...more
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Read in June, 2007
I started getting a few CSS projects at work this spring, and I was like, "uhhh." Cascading style sheets for the web had always sounded really boring.. or at least, more of an organizational tool than a design one. So I went to Barnes & Noble one day at lunch to find a good reference book and came across Transcending CSS. I've read other reviews of this book that describe it as career-changing, and that really was true in my case. I've spent the past four months reading anything an...more
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Read in December, 2007
If you are a web designer, this book will increase your understanding of semantic designing. By using mainly div block statements in your html code, you are limiting yourself to other html that are often better choices.
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This took me further down the street where The Zen of CSS Design left me. It's career-altering and interesting to me; probably not for you.
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Read in April, 2007
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i have learened many tips related to fine arts really a good book
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