HeWhoReadsALot said
You would hope a book on web style would be easy to read and well-presented. Well, this book lives up to its hype. No boring opinions. It's styled as a step-by-step tutorial. It's the best technical web I own. What a refreshing, pleasant, and exceptionally well-researched and well-presented book! He takes several real-life web example pages and re-does them according to his bulletproof method.
We re-did our entire website according to this book and everything was better: clickthroughs, reduced bounce rates, faster page loads, and better maneuverability.
I also suggest buying "Letting Go of the Words" by Reddish, which I consider a great accompaniment to this book. "Letting Go.." will teach you how to take the concepts in the Bulletproof book even further by testing actual layouts.
You do NOT need to know CSS or style sheets to read this book. In fact this book will teach you what you need to know. But just enough - it is not a CSS reference.
Talk about a sobering experience on how bad my web pages were! I enjoyed a healthy 20% improvement within the first few changes.
The other books I read are all just awful, so make sure to buy this one. I have shown this to my other engineering/web friends and they are really impressed.
Brian R. Jewell said
This book addresses some aspects of web design that I had not previously considered. I liked the way in which the affect of each CSS change is illustrated, such that the reader can see the result when each CSS rule is applied, as opposed to simply showing the end result of applying a bunch of rules. I was able to glean a number of new ideas from reading this book and a better understanding of the construction of quality web pages.
N. Long said
This book is ideal for those who learned table-based web design and want to modernize to CSS. Each example converts such a design to one that uses less code and will still work if text is resized, or images aren't loaded, or if a blind user is using a screen reader to access the site, etc.
I've been using CSS for a while and I'm learning a few tricks/best practices, but since much of the book is an argument for the CSS approach, I'm not the ideal reader.
If you're not sure if this book is for you, you might try reading old articles on alistapart.com which explain some of the same concepts.
Mostafa farghaly said
What can i say ? this book is amazing , this book rocks . I feel iam reading interesting story , This is expected from writer like Dan Cederholm who worked for Google,MTV,Blogger,ODEO,ESPN . The book illustrate the bulletproof approach of every design tip by showing you the usual bad way and illustrate why it's unbulletproof so you must avoid it, then illustrate the bulletproof way step by step with figures and show the various solution of the specific problem and stick to the best practice , the illustration is easy to follow with real world projects and case studies , at the end of the book the writer build on the knowledge of every chapter in the book a bulletproof project using every technique learned from the previous chapters and that interested me alot , after all this book is suitable for beginners and professionals and should be in every web developer library due to the the great material in it .
Steven Stoft said
I knew little CSS but this book actually helped me get started, which I thought was good for such an advanced book.
• There's also a helpful reference section in the back.
But actually implementing one of the bullet proof schemes is tough—at least for a begginer.
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