Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (594 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0321553845 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Zoe leads the design and development efforts of dozens of information-rich web sites and applications. . She uses her expert knowledge of CSS, XHTML, Dreamweaver, accessibility, and visual design in all aspects of her career. Zoe Mickley Gillenwater is an experienced web designer, project manager and technical author, active in the web standards community. Her wo
These types of layouts have always been possible with tables but offer new design challenges as well as opportunities when built with CSS. Even those who do not intend to build liquid layouts can use the concepts and techniques taught in this book to improve their fixed-width CSS designs, because they will learn how to design for the inherent flexibility of the web medium, instead of the rigid qualities of print media or table grid-based layouts.. This book will show designers that flexible layouts do not have to be visually boring or difficult to build when planned and built correctly. They will learn not only how to build a liquid layout from scratch using standards-compliant and cross-browser compatible (X)HTML and CSS, but will also learn how to design and slice their graphic comps in a way that makes flexible design achievable. This book, for experienced Web designers with some CSS experience, outlines how to do this successfully.Designers will learn the benefits of flexible layouts and when to choose a liquid, elastic, or hybrid design. Liquid or fluid layouts change width based on the user's unique device viewing size
This book goes into great detail on a number of important techniques for styling web pages with CSS that will be useful to anyone creating web pages. You won’t regret it. The step by step approach not only shows you how to solve the specific layouts that the book covers but also show very clearly the approach to take to resolve the layout of any web page with CSS." -- Stephen Chapman. I heard about the book on Twitter (via Malarkey) and I bought it almost straight away. I started reading it recently and my first impressions are that this is the best book I have bought in some time. She’s written a book called Flexible Web Designs . The book describes flexible layout types in some detail and explains how to achieve these with CSS. Buy it now. It really is a worthwhile read if you are new to flexible layouts…. "Another excellent resource comes to us courtesy of Zoe Mickley Gillenwater . There isn't much that can be done about the first of these and the si
"Good for public sites, lacking coverage of web-based applications" according to Michael Schuerig. The book is almost exclusively focussed on forms on public websites, such as eCommerce or social networking sites. As a result, the studies cited and undertaken by Wroblewski investigate how users interact with forms they are not accustomed to.In other words, the g. Finally A Web Design Book For The Entire Process Ira Laefsky Head First Web Design is a invaluable tool in planning and building web sites and follows the excellent pedagogical principles of other booksin the Head First series. It is also unique in teaching the entire life cycle of building a usable, information-rich, beauti. Excellent Overview Monica Israels I am working on the display for a large form, so I picked this book up. It was good to see everything written down, finally. Most of us know how we "feel" about form elements but we don't have any proof to back up our feelings. This book contains lots of studies to