Web Standardistas Book Giveaway **Updated With Winners**
HTML & CSS Web Standards Solutions – A Web Standardistas’ Approach is quite possibly one of the most authoritative books that you can learn XHTML & CSS through. This book makes learning easy opposed to monotonous reading and technical jargon. Even if you are an absolute beginner in web design, this book will teach you how to build future-proof web pages the right way using easy-to-master tools which are, in most cases, free. This book is easy to pick-up at any point, read a few chapters and learn, then practice (through their easy tutorials) and then go back to your day! However, this book is addicting and once you start catching on, you’ll want to finish and learn more! Here are what a few people say about HTML & CSS Web Standards Solutions – A Web Standardistas’ Approach:
Every Design School on the Planet Should Make ‘HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions’ a Required Textbook.
— Jon TanReading this book felt like I was at the web design school I never had the chance to attend. It’s truly a course in a book: it explains the basics that every web designer should know.
— YailiMore than just another book: it’s a textbook. Each chapter builds appropriately on the previous and each chapter ends with an exercise for the reader. The exercise enforces what has been learned up to that point and sets the stage for the chapter to come.
— Jonathan Snook
About the Authors
In addition to their role as lecturers in interactive design at the University of Ulster at Belfast, where they have been active in promoting a web standards-based curriculum, Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson are practicing designers and digital artists. Their work has featured in a variety of design books and magazines alongside numerous internationally respected designers and they are regular speakers at design conferences and workshops worldwide.
The What
3 copies will be divvied up among the participants and winners will be notified on August 23rd 2010.
The How
Fairly simple: follow @fuelcreativity as well as @standardistas and tell us something you love about design on the web. It could be your favorite site, the coolest thing you’ve ever seen, the best site you’ve ever designed or a just a reason why you think web design is awesome. There is no wrong answer as long as it pertains to web design.
Need more Standardistas?
Winners
Elizabeth Bartoccini @ebartoccini
Rowell Cruz @rowjie
Robin Doty @dakotadesigner
Contact me at chad(at)fuelyourcreativity.com to get things set up for shipping & receiving prizes!
Chad Engle is currently slaying pixels @BoomtownROI. He abides in coastal Charleston, SC and enjoys living on an island. You should follow, harass or chat to him on twitter @chadengle and @fuelcreativity .
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i do following and Digging, but i still need the book
This book is great. It’s the go-to book for anyone beginning to delve into a standards-based approach to design for the web. If you don’t win a copy I’d recommend you pick one up.
The best site I have ever built has to be the tech and game blog http://amatchmadeinhalo.com (based on design by @Desirai from Lucid Dream Designs). I worked hard to ensure the static content was 100% semantic, standards compliant and W3C validated. I also go through on a regular basis to check that all of the new blog posts are compliant as well.
Web design is awesome as it can be both a hobby and a career. Its constantly evolving and also serves as a great medium for showcasing people’s creativity.
I’ve been a fan of web design for years and I’m finally working towards making it my career. I’d love this book as a resource!
I love design since an early age, always wondered about the different ways we can create communication and connect between each other, in a simple and direct way, and design does that better than anything, also there’s always something new to learn
I love that there are constraints, but people still come up with awesome web designs that are within the rules!
One of the great aspects and challenges of great web design is a seamless blend between visual design and technology. It’s a very fine like to walk if you can do them both well. Some how as designers we must integrate usability, aesthetics, and standardization all in one space and time. It’s a great challenge in an ever expanding field and there are 5 ways to do everything. This is why I really love web design.
I love web design because it allowed me to work from home and not a 9-5 schedule. this was a big win because of my disability made a “regular job” very difficult.
What I love about design on the web. Wow, there is so much that is all good. However, a favorite site that is wide and varied (international) is designboom.
I think web is an awesome tool and for us the designers is more than that. Nothing is more satisfying than to know you made someone’s life easier or to see they love to click on your things :)
What I personally love about web is freedom, freedom to create user experiences. HTML5 will be a great addition for this.
Please notice that this book is a bit dated (2008) and I think the authors should revise it.
The book teaches XHTML strict as it was the ultimate standard. In fact XHTML was never really used on the Web (served as text-html it is just HTML) and is now a “dead man walking”, since the future is HTML5.
HTML4/5 syntax is very indulgent, so (in theory) you could use a XHTML strict syntax, but why use every XHTML rule as a monkey?
In my opinion, the best approach is to teach HTML 4/5 with a quasi-XHTML syntax: all XHTML syntax rules apply, but you use attribute minimization and, more important, you don’t terminate empty elements.
Of course the modern sudent should ignore the XHTML doctype which is (and was) clearly useless.
Waiting for an update to this otherwise excellent book, take a look at “Developing with Web Standards” by John Allsopp and the brand new “Interact with Web Standards” (both from Peachpit Press).
Awesome giveaway! Already following both. As for why I think web design is cool, I just love that it’s able to provide information in a visually appealing way. And you never get bored of it because there will always be something new to learn.