A companion to Cederholm’s other book, Bullet Proof Web Design, Web Standards Solutions is a concise, easy to read introduction to using web standard coding on your web pages. I love this book and return to it all the time. As the title suggests, Cederholm doesn’t just talk about web standards, he offers solutions to common web page problems or situations.
The chapter on forms was particularly enlightening for me, I’d never heard of the label element, which can help create a nice looking, accessible and standards compliant form (without using tables). I also liked the chapter on Anchors (something I need to review again). Seems like a lot of the other books skip over these unglamorous, simple tags (like ul and a) but that’s what simple, semantic web pages are all about (at least on the code level).
One minor quibble, I couldn’t see any place to download the code, but most of it is so simple, that it’s not hard to type in by hand.
You can check out Web Standards Solutions (and other web design books) in the Cornercode Amazon Store.
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