Bull's eye

Dan's done it again. In his latest book, Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting against Worst-Case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS (New Riders), Dan Cederholm has provided us with practical, real-world examples of website conversions culminating in standards-compliant, cross-browser sites that are bulletproof. In a nutshell, he advocates, and shows us how to design, flexible websites that:

• provide the user with greater control
• are scalable, to any text size, amount of text, not to mention window size and resolution
• incorporate images to create highly aesthetic user experiences
• are functional when both images and CSS are removed
• are easy to edit, update and maintain.

Perhaps the best piece of advice he gives relates to a web designer's take on a new project. He urges us to choose optimal markup from the start and strive for the most compact and meaningful solutions.

For a review of Dan's previous work, see my post entitled Web designers rejoice.