December 29th, 2009 @ 07:40AM

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Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design

The new release from Dan Cederholm is a great complement to his previous work in Bulletproof Web Design. For those who haven’t read Bulletproof Web Design, it’s premise was creating flexible websites and keeping a clear separation of your markup (HTML), styles (CSS), and behavior (JavaScript). It took examples of sites that weren’t bulletproof, and showed the process to make them bulletproof. All great things. The landscape of browsers, CSS, and HTML has changed slightly since Dan wrote Bulletproof Web Design, and this book is focused on bringing those aspects to the forefront. This book assumes you have knowledge of developing with web standards, and therefore bypasses the why of adhering to web standards. The entire book focuses on building a fictional site, the Tugboat Coffee Company. Each chapter builds a new layer into this site, with clear instruction of how each aspect progressively enhances the user experience, while not explicitly leaving other browsers...

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