Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-Case Scenarios with HTML5 and CSS3 (Voices That Matter)

No matter how visually appealing or content packed a web site may be, if it doesn€t reach the widest possible audience, it isn€t truly successful. In Bulletproof Web Design, Third Edition, bestselling author and web designer Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that can accommodate the myriad ways users choose to view the content. Each chapter starts out with an example of an unbulletproof approach--one that employs traditional HTML-based techniques--which Dan deconstructs, pointing out its limitations. He then gives the example a makeover using HTML and CSS, so you can learn to replace bloated code with lean markup and CSS for fast-loading sites that are accessible to all users. Finally, he assembles all of the page components discussed in prior chapters into a single-page template. This fully revised and updated third edition introduces CSS3 and HTML5 methods and features redesigned case studies including new responsive design examples.

• Size text using keywords, percentages, and ems to allow more user control.

• Plan for vertical expansion of horizontal page components.

• Use floats to achieve grid-like results.

• Ensure that content is still readable in the absence of images or CSS.

• Strip the presentation from data tables, and rebuild with CSS.

• Progressively enhance your designs using HTML5 and CSS3.

• Visit the companion website at simplebits.com/bulletproof to download finished files, additional resources, and book updates.