Dan Cederholm eBooks

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'...

Websites are not the same as pictures of websites. When one person designs in Photoshop and another converts the design to markup and CSS, the coder must make guesses and assumptions about what the designer intended. This interpretive process is never without friction - unless the coder is Dan Cederholm. When Dan codes other people's designs, he gets everything right, including the parts the designer got wrong. For instance, Dan inevitably translates a designer's fixed Photoshop dimensions into code that is flexible, accessible, and bulletproof. Indeed, Dan coined the phrase "bulletproof web design" while teaching the rest of us how to do it. In Dans, case, flexible never means sloppy. The details always matter. That's because Dan is not on...