Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, Video Edition (Paperback)

There’s a real connection between craftsmanship and Web design. That’s the theme running through Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, by bestselling author Dan Cederholm, with a chapter contributed by renowned Web designer and developer Ethan Marcotte. This book explores CSS3 that works in today’s browsers, and you’ll be convinced that now’s the time to start experimenting with it.

Whether you’re a Web designer, project manager, or a graphic designer wanting to learn more about the fluidity that’s required when designing for the Web, you’ll discover the tools to create the most flexible, reliable, and bulletproof Web designs. And you’ll finally be able to persuade your clients to adopt innovative and effective techniques that make everyone’s life easier while improving the end user’s experience. This book’s seven chapters deconstruct various aspects of a case-study Web site for the Tugboat Coffee Company, focusing on aspects that make it bulletproof and demonstrate progressive enrichment techniques over more traditional labor-intensive methods.

Subjects covered in this book include:

• building for unanticipated future use

• progressively enriching designs using CSS3 properties

• using RGBA color for transparency with an alpha channel

• modular float management

• crafting flexible frameworks

• fluid layouts using grid-based design principles

• craftsmanship details on typography, jQuery, and shifting backgrounds

The video included with this special edition features author Dan Cederholm as he illustrates 10 essential Web design guidelines. Enhancing the content in this book, the Handcrafted CSS: Bulletproof Essentials DVD will arm you with a checklist to make your next project a flexible, adaptable, and wellcrafted design.

「手工製作的 CSS: 更堅固的網頁設計」是暢銷作家丹·塞德霍姆（Dan Cederholm）所著，並由著名網頁設計師和開發者伊桑·馬科特（Ethan Marcotte）貢獻了一章的主題是手工藝和網頁設計之間的真實聯繫。本書探討了在當今瀏覽器中適用的 CSS3，並且您將被說服現在是開始進行實驗的時候。

無論您是網頁設計師、專案經理還是希望了解在網頁設計中所需的流動性的平面設計師，您都將發現創建最靈活、可靠和堅固的網頁設計的工具。您最終將能夠說服您的客戶採用創新和有效的技術，使每個人的生活更輕鬆，同時改善最終用戶的體驗。本書的七章對 Tugboat Coffee Company 的案例研究網站的各個方面進行了解構，重點關注使其堅固並展示進步豐富技術相對於傳統的勞動密集方法。

本書涵蓋的主題包括：
- 為未預期的未來使用構建
- 使用 CSS3 屬性逐漸豐富設計
- 使用 RGBA 顏色實現帶有 alpha 通道的透明度
- 模塊化的浮動管理
- 打造靈活的框架
- 使用基於網格的設計原則的流動佈局
- 關於排版、jQuery 和背景變換的手工藝細節

此特別版附帶的視頻中，作者丹·塞德霍姆（Dan Cederholm）將演示 10 個基本的網頁設計準則。增強本書內容的「手工製作的 CSS: 堅固基礎」DVD 將為您提供一個檢查清單，使您的下一個項目成為一個靈活、適應性強且精心製作的設計。