Andy Clarke - Hardboiled Web Design

Andy Clarkes been called many things since he started designing for the web over fifteen years ago. His ego likes words like ambassador for CSS, industry prophet and inspiring, but hes proudest that Jeffrey Zeldman once called him a triple talented bastard.

Andy runs , a small web design company based in north Wales in the United Kingdom, which specialises in creative visual design for websites and web applications. For seventeen years theyve worked with clients from all around the world. Youll see examples of some of his designs later in this book. Andys a popular public speaker and presents at web design conferences worldwide. He teaches web design techniques and technologies to professional web designers and developers at sold-out workshops all over the world.

He wrote the best-selling . He tweets as @malarkey.

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Not every CSS design wizard still lives in his mums basement and cries himself to sleep each night wearing a soiled Tron T-shirt. For theres also Andy Clarke: dapper, charismatic and perpetually brimming with ideas, insights and enthusiasm for the design of great experiences and the experience of great design.

The man is a walking epiphany a King Midas of CSS-powered creativity. And the book youre now browsing may be his greatest gold classic yet. For here youll learn why, when and how to use HTML5 and CSS3 in your daily work. Daily as in every day. Daily as in right now, today.

Every web designer should possess this book, but be warned, it is not for the timid. If you tremble at the thought of your web layout boasting rounded corners in one browser but not another; if the mere notion of even trying a CSS drop-shadow fills you with a sinners remorse, Hardboiled Web Design is so not for you. Leave now. No judgements. Return to your safe, soft-boiled life. Okay, maybe that was a judgement.

But if youre among the restless, enlightened and daring few who embrace the future of web design, and know that we cant get there by clinging to the past, brother slash sister, has Andy got a book for you.

Jeffrey Zeldman

What can I say about , for people who make websites.

Sure, hes the author of Designing with Web Standards, the book that popularised standards-based HTML and CSS. Hes also my inspiration, my mentor, my critic and my friend. What more can I say?

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If youd have told me 5 years ago that the command line would be a core part of my web design workflow Id have likely laughed you out of the room. The same goes for compiling CSS or using something other than floats for layout.

As web designers, we stand on ever eroding foundations of technologies, techniques and tastes. While core concepts might remain constant, the innumerable orbiting details fluctuate as the web evolves. Rarely is there a single solution to a problem, and answers to most questions begin with It depends As thrilling as it is to work in an industry developing so rapidly, the rate of change can be exhausting and often terrifying. How do we keep up?

We work with a medium that encompasses the sum of all human knowledge, but the webs boundlessness can make staying up to date overwhelming. It can be time consuming to wade through disparate, often contradictory sources. Given the webs nonlinear nature, learning seldom feels comprehensivemore like grasping around in the dark.