Christian Heilmann wrote:
On 6/24/05, Shane Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In addition to the aforementioned, I had quite a big success getting
our junior developers up to speed with proper resources, one of them
being the Dan Cederholm's Web Standards Solutions book:
http://www.simplebits.com/publications/solutions/
It is a wonderful hands-on book which allows you to look up what you
need to do. It describes all the small building blocks that make a
page and what the issues and best practises with each of them are.
Yep, I'd reccomend that book too - it contains lots of good examples, but a
book can only do so much. You've got to get stuck in and get your hands dirty
(oh I do love a good cliché.)
Other references on my desk: Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with web
standards, Any Phio's Return on Design, Joe Clark's Building
Accessible web sites, and, most importantly Steve Krug's "Don't make
me think".
As far as references go, I've always liked Danny Goodman's DHTML: The
Definitive Guide. Yes, DHTML is a bit dated. Sure it is a little dated
now, but it is still the most used book on my desk as far as references go.
As to CSS training, there's no spit-fire way to get there but to read as
much material as you can on the topic and experiement until you're blue
in the face. I'd recommend getting serveral books. Eric Meyer's books
are excellent. I've heard the Zen of CSS Design is good too. People
seem to like my book as well ;-). No book is perfect though, and it
helps to have several around to get divergent perspectives of the
material. At least, that's always helped me.
You should also be familar with Dean Edward's IE7,
http://dean.edwards.name/ie7, which is saving web designers everywhere
from the headache of Internet Explorer. And of course Explorer's
conditional comments. Not going to go into detail on that, but those
are tools I use /all the time/.
Regards,
Richard York
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http://www.richard-york.com
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