Hardboiled Web Design
Fifth Anniversary Edition

Smashing Magazine 2015.
ISBN: 978-3-945749-37-1. 441 pages.
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If you’re hungry to learn about how the latest techniques will make your websites more creative, flexible and adaptable, then Hardboiled Web Design is for you.

“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. ”
Tri Ahmad Irfan. Goodreads

Frustrated by how designers were being held back by the notion that their designs should look the same in even the least capable browsers, I wrote Hardboiled Web Design in 2010. It was incredibly well received, so in 2015 I updated its content for an all new Hardboiled Web Design: Fifth Anniversary Edition.

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Real-world and fictional layouts highlight key points and are fantastic examples of what the web can be with great art direction. Andy goes a step further by jumping right into key CSS properties and methods that make print-type/traditional layouts possible for the web.
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Inside the book

Getting Hardboiled

What the hell is hardboiled?
(Give me that) ol’ time religion
The Way standards develop
It doesn’t have to look the same
Atoms and elements
Designing atmosphere

Hardboiled HTML

Destination HTML5
Hardboiled microformats 2
WAI-aria roles

Hardboiled CSS

Hardboiled foundations
Flexible box layout
Responsive typography
Borders
Background images
Gradients

More Hardboiled CSS

Background blends and filters
Transforms
Transitions
Multi-column layout
It’s time to get Hardboiled