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Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design
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As the Web evolves to incorporate new standards and the latest browsers offer
new possibilities for creative design, the art of creatingWeb sites is also
changing. Few Web designers are experiences programmers, and as a result, working
with semantic markup and CSScan create roadblocks to achieving truly beautiful
designs using all the resources available. Add to this the pressures of presenting
exceptional design to clients and employers, without compromising efficient
workflow, and the challenge deepens for those working in a fast-paced environment.
As someone who understands these complexities firsthand, author and designer
Andy Clarke offers visual designers a progressive approach to creating artistic,
usable, and accessible sites using transcendent CSS.
In this groundbreaking book, you’ll discover how to implement highly original
designs through visual demonstrations of the creative possibilities using markup
and CSS. You’ll learn to use a new design workflow, build prototypes that
work well for designers and all team members, use grids effectively, visualize
markup, and discover every phase of the transcendent design process, from working
with the latest browsers to incorporating CSS3 to collaborating with team members
effectively.
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design:
Uses a visual approach to help you learn coding techniques
Includes numerous examples of world-class Web sites, photography, and other
inspirations that give designers ideas for visualizing their code
Offers early previews of technical advances in new Web browsers and of the emerging
CSS3 specification
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Designing on a Moving Surface
In this chapter, the focus is on expressing current challenges faced by visual
designers and the contemporary solutions they can rely on to:
* Better understand the designer's role within the Web team
* Find inspiration outside of contemporary software and technology approaches
* Reinvigorate passion for design by understanding that the Web medium is different
than print
Chapter Two: Visualizing Code
Here, the designer won't learn to write code, rather experience through existing
visual designs how code can be represented. This is done using 3d emulations
of code structures, and using markup guides to create structural models.
* Visualizing general structures in contemporary Web design
* Working with navigation design
* Creating common interface elements
* Designing visual tables
* Artful forms
Chapter Three: Design Workflow
Building on the more elemental techniques described in Chapter Two, the designer
will learn how to create visual maps of a site using markup guides, building
wireframes, creating sprites and maximizing the workflow process with a balance
of both traditional and progressive techniques. Readers will learn:
* How to create markup guides
* Why and how to build effective wireframes
* Creating and using sprites to increase workflow productivity
Chapter Four: Progressive Enhancement
Now that the designer is thinking about Web design in a visual manner, he or
she is ready to progress beyond the conventional needs of an agency or company.
This chapter provides inspiration for going beyond the limitations of contemporary
Web browsers and the desktop, and encourages designers to constantly seek new
ways of expressing design without the constraints of technology.
Appendix I: Recommended resources for continued success
While many books have a resource guide, most of them list resources by technical
topic. This appendix will include hand-picked, annotated resources of specific
interest to the visual designer.
About the Authors
Andy Clarke is an internationally recognized speaker, designer, and
consultant focusing on creative, accessible Web development. Andy is passionate
about bridging the gap between design and code and he regularly trains designers
and developers in the creative applications of Web standards. Andy has written
articles for A List Apart Magazine and contributed to the CSS Zen Garden. Outside
of his studio, Andy is a member of the Web Standards Project.
Molly E. Holzschlag is an author,instructor, and Web designer who has
written over 30 books on Web design and development, including The Zen of CSS
Design with designer Dave Shea. She’s been coined “one of the greatest
digerati” and deemed one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web.
Molly is also Group Lead of the Web Standards Project, an invited expert to
the W3C in the areas of HTML and internationalization, and is a frequent lecturer
on Web design and development around the world.
Her popular column of 2 1/2 years, "Integrated Design," appeared
monthly in the internationally popular WebTechniques Magazine until the magazine's
closing in early 2002. Molly served for a year as the executive editor of Web
Review and has contributed features and columns to Adobe Studios, Adobe.com,
Builder.com, Digital Chicago, Digital New York, IBM developerWorks, MacWorld,
MSDN, PC Magazine, and other developer publications.
When offline, Molly plays guitar and sings in the original acoustic duo Courage
Sisters. For books, giveaways, training, speaking events, and other items of
fun and interest, drop by her Web site at, where else, http://www.molly.com
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