Category: Books
Reviews and recommendations of books on design and development.
Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
Review: The Art & Science of CSS
As you may be aware, I write for CSS3.info every now and again. Joost, the brains behind the site, rewards me for my work by sending me the occasional web development book; I’d do it for free, to be honest (don’t tell him that, please), but it’s a nice little bonus.
The latest book I’ve received is […]
CSS a little too easy…
CSSeasy.com’s Q&A says:
Q: Why do I need this site?
A: ‘Cause you don’t want to read CSS books of 500+ pages…
I’d suggest that you’d learn a lot more reading a book than you would just copying someone else’s templates. Plus, I don’t think there are many CSS books of 500+ pages.
Five books that have helped me develop
I made my first forays into web development back in 1998, with my own Geocities homepage (now sadly defunct). It was after I developed my first ‘proper’ website (an unoffical guide to the FIFA Club World Championship 2000; please don’t laugh, this was eight years ago…) that I decided I wanted to be a professional developer.
I’m […]
Aside
I’m slightly late with this, but I was happy to see that Opera have launched their first Web Standards Curriculum for teaching best practice in client-side development. With developers in the Netherlands setting up what could well be the world’s first front-end professional guild, and a full British Standard for accessibility in the works, the signs are promising that we’re entering into a new phase of professionalism in web development.
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