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InterACT with Web Standards: A holistic approach to web design Summary:

By Erin Anderson, Virginia DeBolt, Derek Featherstone, Lars Gunther, Denise R. Jacobs, Leslie Jensen-Inman, Chris Mills, Christopher Schmitt, Glenda Sims, Aarron Walter

* Publisher: New Riders

* Number Of Pages: 504

* Publication Date: 2010-05-26

* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0321703529

* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780321703521

Product Description:

Laying the foundation for a solid understanding of Web design, this book weaves together industry best practices and standards-based design techniques. It is built on practical examples and short exercises crafted to help readers learn quickly and retain information. Starting with the basics this book teaches:

* Internet fundamentals

* Planning, content strategy, and information architecture

* HTML and CSS

* Accessibility

Created by the education luminaries that brought you the revolutionary InterACT curriculum and the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, and the experts that power The Web Standards Project, this book is the definitive guide to learning the basics of web design. Its emphasis on practical and proven techniques make it the go-to guide that every aspiring web professional needs to succeed in their career. Summary: Great way to learn web standards

Rating: 5

Full disclosure: I'm acquainted with one of the collaborators of the book but I've done my best to remove my bias from the review. left from the beginning, this book stands out just based on it's physical design. The book is just very well laid out. It's full color (which makes a lot of code snippets a lot easier to read) and each chapter contains plenty of graphics to help illustrate many of the concepts. It's divided into three main sections, covering relevant background material, information architecture basics, and the nuts and bolts of html and css concepts. The book also has the "interact" aspect with plenty of exercises that you can work with to follow along as you learn as well as a final project that ties everything together. Two places which really stood out to me were the inclusion of a full section on information architecture and the chapters devoted completely to accessibility. The IA section of the book really gives you a great high level view of planning a website and how various people (content creators, designers, developers, etc) come together to plan out a web development project. For the accessibility chapters, they really clarify what accessibility is (and why it matters) and points out resources that you can use to implement accessibility testing and how you can adhere to accessibility standards. I have to admit, I went into the book at sort of the intermediate-level (not a beginner) but the parts devoted to teaching code (html and css) were very clear and definitely augmented by the code samples from the companion website. Additionally, the final project really helped me bring all of the concepts that I'd learned (both from this book and from previous studies) together in a holistic way. Finally, if you're visual oriented, you may find that the color and the design of the book really help turn it into a good reference. The edge of the book is colored (sort of like a dictionary) so you can spot where the chapters are. Then, the headings are clear and semantic enough that you can often find the topic you're looking for. I was going to gripe about having to type out all of the URLs in the book...but I suppose I didn't read the intro well enough. Eventually I found them on the companion website (But only *after* doing all the work, sheesh).

Summary: High Quality Book; content, writing, layout and actual book.

Rating: 5

I teach a course on Web Application Development at the graduate school level. As a result I end up buying a dozen or more books in this topic area per semester. This book has moved to the top of my recommended list for experienced and new learners. The book does a great job of breaking down the real aspects of developing websites into meaningful topics, arranged them in a great manner and had real experts on those topics cover them. Let me emphasize the "REAL" aspects, there are a ton of other books that cover, say, PHP object oriented abstractions and other technical aspects of developing websites. This book does the best job of recognizing the reality, the human aspects, of the process and ongoing nature of developing a website. This is done with a high level of professionalism while keeping it real and engaging. Students starting in on the topic will benefit from a great roadmap of best practices. "Seasoned" developers will benefit from the thoughtful review of best practices to add to your business.



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