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Summary
Summary
After learning the language of design, how does one effectively use standards-based technologies to create visually strong Web sites? The full-color Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites gives developers a peek into the process of the best designers in the world through the work of high profile, real-world Web sites that made them famous. The book focuses on deconstructing these top-tier large-scale sites with particular attention given to deconstructing CSS.
Author Notes
Christopher Schmitt is an award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993. He is the author of CSS Cookbook, which was named Best Web Design Book of 2006, and one of the first books that looked at CSS-enabled designs, Designing CSS Web Pages (New Riders). Kevin Lawver has been on the web for thirteen years, and writing web applications for almost eleven while working for AOL for twelve. He's built big ones, small ones, and gone about it in many different ways.
Reviews 1
Choice Review
This compact, well-written book edited by designer/developer Schmitt and colleagues provides an excellent introduction to Web 2.0. The subtitle "CSS and Ajax for Big Sites" may be a bit misleading since the work is for a much wider audience of Web developers who are deciding how to apply the new standards. The book is well focused for developers using Microsoft's .NET products. However, those who are doing Web development with open source and other resources should not be turned off by the relatively mild .NET/Visual Studio bias. Adapting to Web Standards is organized into two parts. Part 1 presents the tools and practices for building standards-based Web sites. It is composed of five chapters that provide excellent insight into the use of CSS and Ajax; only chapter 4 has a heavy .NET emphasis. Part 2 contains two case studies that provide many examples and illustrations of good Web practices. The real surprise here is that even though the book has six authors, it is a good read and does not suffer from a design-by-committee approach. This is a credit to the skills of the writers. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals. J. Beidler University of Scranton
Table of Contents
| Part 1 Constructing Standards-Based Web Sites | p. 3 |
| Introduction | |
| Chapter 1 Coding the Front End | |
| Chapter 2 Presenting Cascading Style Sheets | |
| Chapter 3 Integrating the Behavior Layer | |
| Chapter 4 Developing Web Software Applications | |
| Chapter 5 The Circle of Standards | |
| Part 2 Case Studies | p. 161 |
| Practice Doesn't Make Perfect | |
| Chapter 6 EverythingTori.com | |
| Chapter 7 AOL.com | |
| Appendix A Targeting Web Browsers | |
| Appendix B Accessibility | |
| Appendix C Web Site Performance Tips | |
| Appendix D CSS Selectors Reference | |
| Index |
