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Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with XHTML, CSS, and DOM Scripting
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Chapter 4: Designing for Outside the Box
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* Be inspired by 10 web design lessons from 10 of the world’s best web
designers
* Get creative with cutting-edge XHTML, CSS, and DOM scripting techniques
* Learn breathtaking design skills while remaining standards-compliant
Here at friends of ED, we know that as a web designer or developer, your work
involves more than just working to pay the bills. We know that each day, you
strive to push the boundaries of your medium, unleashing your creativity in
new ways to make your websites more engaging and attractive to behold, while
still maintaining cross-browser support, standards compliance, and accessibility.
That's why we got together ten of the world's most talented web designers to
share their secrets with you. Web Standards Creativityis jam-packed with fresh,
innovative design ideas. The topics range from essential CSS typography and
grid design, effective styling for CMS-driven sites, and astonishing PNG transparency
techniques, to DOM scripting magic for creating layouts that change depending
on browser resolution and user preference, and better print layouts for web
pages. We're sure you will find something here to inspire you!
This full-color book's examples are not just stunning to look at, but also
fully standards-compliant, up-to-date, and tested in current browsers including
Internet Explorer 7. Playing by the rules doesn't have to mean drab or dull
websites—Web Standards can be fun!
Table of Contents
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Getting Creative with Web Standards
PART 1: LAYOUT MAGIC
Chapter 1: Semantic Structure, Dirty Pretty Presentation
Chapter 2: Taming a Wild CMS with CSS, Flash, and JavaScript
Chapter 3: New York Magazine: My, What a Classy <body>
Chapter 4: Designing for Outside the Box
Chapter 5: Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design
PART 2: EFFECTIVE PRINT TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO CSS DESIGN
Chapter 6: Grid Design for the Web
Chapter 7: Bridging the Type Divide:
PART 3: DOM SCRIPTING GEMS
Chapter 8: Print Magic:
Chapter 9: Creating Dynamic Interfaces Using JavaScript
Chapter 10: Accessible Sliding Navigation
Index
About the Authors
Cameron Adams has a degree in law and one in science; naturally he chose
a career in Web development. When pressed, he labels himself a "Web Technologist"
because he likes to have a hand in graphic design, JavaScript, CSS, Perl (yes,
Perl), and anything else that takes his fancy that morning. While running his
own business (www.themaninblue.com) he's consulted and worked for government
departments, nonprofit organisations, large corporations and tiny startups.
As well as helping his list of clients, Cameron has taught numerous workshops
around the country and spoken at conferences worldwide, such as @Media and Web
Essentials. He has also written a book – The JavaScript Anthology –
which is one of the most complete question and answer resources on modern JavaScript
techniques.
Mark Boulton is a typographic designer from Cardiff, UK. He’s worked
in Sydney, London, and Manchester as an Art Director for design agencies for
clients such as BBC, T-Mobile, and British Airways. For the past three years,
Mark has been working as a Senior Designer for the BBC designing web sites and
web applications.
He is an active member of the International Society of Typographic Designers
and writes a design journal at www.markboulton.co.uk.
Andy is an internationally renowned web designer, developer and weblog author
based in Brighton, England. Andy specializes in building attractive, accessible,
and standards complaint web solutions. Andy enjoys writing about web techniques
for sites such as digital-web.com and his work has been featured in numerous
magazines, books, and websites around the world.
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