Advanced Professional Web Design: Techniques & Templates (CSS & XHTML) (Internet Series) (Paperback)

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Advanced Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates (CSS & XHTML) is the must-have book for advanced designers who want to expand their skills and improve the quality of their designs. Learning CSS technology and continually improving one's design and developer skills is becoming increasingly essential for every Web designer in today's marketplace. This book teaches designers and developers how to bridge the knowledge gap from XHTML table-based design to full CSS-based design, and master the technologies and techniques needed. But the book isn't just about the theory behind design; it's about putting it into practice right away. Using the ~140 customizable designs, designers can use what they learn immediately. This indispensable collection of designs includes 20 CSS-driven templates, 80 XHTML table-based templates, 10 e-newsletter templates, 10 signature templates, and 20 Photoshop designs that can be coded. Too see some of the sample templates that come on the book's companion CD, visit the author's Web site at http://www.a5design.com/a5-book-designs. The book goes well beyond the authors' very successful Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates by providing advanced tools and techniques that teach how e-commerce and shopping carts work, explain the concept of database-driven sites, and show how to create relative sizing designs, among other important topics. The techniques are taught with an emphasis on CSS, including explanations, examples, and templates that go far beyond existing CSS documentation. The database-driven and e-commerce examples in the book are written using CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language). Because the purpose of this book is to give a high-level explanation of such techniques, the techniques can be easily translated to other languages, such as ASP/ASP.Net, JSP, and PHP. This is a unique training course and free library of templates all in one!

About the Author

Clint Eccher is an award-winning Web designer with more than 13 years of experience designing and developing professional Web sites. He is the owner of A5design, a Web design company that not only subcontracts to various marketing, advertising, and IT organizations, but also is commissioned by Fortune 500 companies, local and national nonprofi t organizations, and small businesses for Web design and/or development. In addition to authoring Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates (CSS and XHTML), Third Edition, which has been published in fi ve different languages, he is also the author of Advanced Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates (CSS and XHTML). Eccher lives and works in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Product Details

• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: Charles River Media; 1 edition (September 4, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584504943
• ISBN-13: 978-1584504948
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #652,090 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is not for Advanced Programmers., September 3, 2007

By	Steven Benjamin (Chicago) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a professional programmer I purchased this book to master CSS & XHTML Table-less layouts. As as advanced programmer I was surprised to see the first 100 pages of the book were written as a beginner's overview of how the web works. (A total waste of time for me.) The second part of the book takes you through a step by step process of creating layouts. The problem is the code added in each step is combined with all the previous work and the reader is left trying to sort out the differences in the code examples. Additionally The code examples are NOT provided on the CD. For some insane reason the images in the book are provided instead. I tried to contact the author to inquire if I am using the book incorrectly, but there has been no response. It appears to me that what is missing is the layout concepts. Clint jumps right in to the examples before explaining the process. It was not until I combed through the 140 examples before I realized his technique was to nest absolutely positioned div's in parent relatively positioned div's. Once I deduced that small piece of critical knowledge, the rest fell into place. The 140 examples are nice, but really only 5-6 are needed.

A far better book is: HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for Amateurs Web Designers, February 24, 2009

By	Linda C. Readman "c readman" (Rockford, IL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is great for any amateurs that wants to design a professional web site or a career in web design.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book!! Great investment!, December 2, 2007

By	W. Muller (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As with the first book, the designs included with this one have helped make me look extremely professional among my clients. I am able to customize a couple designs, show them to my clients, and always close the deal. Plus, I learned a lot about creating tableless designs. The book also helped me to better understand the how e-commerce works. I definitely recommend this book for someone needing a quick fix to creating a graphically professional site.