Ebook: Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with XHTML, CSS, and DOM Scripting

• 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 10 of the world's most talented web designers to share their secrets with you. Web Standards Creativity is 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!

This is the ultimate in inspirational, high-level web design books — an innovative book for the very successful but highly contested web standards market. There is no attempt to teach the basics CSS or JavaScript — competency is already assumed.

This book brings together 12 of the world's most talented web designers (including Andy Budd, Andy Clarke, Ethan Marcotte, Simon Collison, and Ian Lloyd,) all renowned in the web design community, and many of them already proven authors, to share their secrets with the reader. The techniques discussed cover the full spectrum of essential web design topics, but not run of the mill content — readers will find enough innovation inside that they will keep coming back to the book again and again to improve their work.

The book is completely standards-compliant, and up-to-date, including discussions of IE 7 support. And to make learning even more rewarding, the book is presented in glorious full color.