Best value
Get three of Andy’s industry influencing books—Art Direction for the Web, Hardboiled Web Design, and Transcending CSS Revisited—in one best-value bundle.
Essential reading
Real-world and fictional layouts highlight key points and are fantastic examples of what the web can be with great art direction. The author goes a step further by jumping right into key CSS properties and methods that make print-type/traditional layouts possible for the web.
Fifth Anniversary Edition
This book is one of the best in modern day web development. Hardboiled Web Design isn’t about making your website pretty or pixel perfect, but about making it stand the test of time while using tomorrow’s standards today.
Industry defining
I’ve read other reviews of this book that describe it as career-changing and that really was true in my case. I’ve spent the past four months reading anything and everything I can about CSS because the doors that Andy Clarke opens in Transcending CSS are just too cool to close.
Frustrated by how designers were being held back by the notion that their designs should look the same in even the least capable browsers.
This book is one of the best in modern day web development. Hardboiled Web Design isn’t about making your website pretty or pixel perfect, but about making it stand the test of time while using tomorrow’s standards today.
Five Simple Steps 2010 • ISBN: 978-1907828003 • 420 pages.
No longer available • Reviews on Goodreads.
I wrote Transcending CSS, my first full-length book, in 2006, because I wanted to explain the possibilities of CSS and HTML in ways which would appeal to creative web professionals. I had no idea about the impact this book would have on my career and the careers of many other people. It was translated into eight languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, and Korean.
I’ve read other reviews of this book that describe it as career-changing and that really was true in my case. I’ve spent the past four months reading anything and everything I can about CSS because the doors that Andy Clarke opens in Transcending CSS are just too cool to close.
New Riders Press 2006 • ISBN-10: 0321410971 • ISBN-13: 978-0321410979
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