If you are a passionate web professional, who cares about Web Standards and best practices, and you have heard of the term "progressive enhancement", but want to know all about it, than this book
"Adaptive Web Design", by Aaron Gustafson, published by
Easy Readers, is definitely for you. This book will tell you what it means, how it works, and how it can fit into your workflow. Writing a review of this great little book has long been on my "todo" list. Finally I found some time, and here it is…
There is this book I've been reading a while ago called
'The Web Designer's Idea Book Volume 2' that I want to talk about in today's post. As the title says, it's the 2nd edition. I didn't read the 1st edition though, so I can't really compare, but I did enjoy this edition. Secondly, I should also mention that this book has been published a while ago, months ago actually. I've been reading it on and off… mostly at the hairdresser (Yes, I know!). Not that this means this book didn't trigger my interest enough. Not at all…just lack of time.
Hardboiled Web Design, by Andy Clarke is a fabulous book aimed to web designers who want to learn about the creative opportunities offered by
CSS3, and who want to use it today. You don't need to know everything about CSS, but you need to be familiar with writing well-structured, meaningful HTML or XHTML markup and using CSS to implement your designs. While learning about the latest technologies on how to make your website and applications more creative, flexible and adaptive, this book also offers a fresh perspective on how to handle older, less capable browsers.
I don't know about you, but I really love icons. Just for the purpose of writing this post I had a quick look how many I exactly own. Seems I have
17633 icons. With that amount you need an icon library organizer. Today I'm having a look at a Belgian one called
IconBox.
If you are a regular visitor of my humble space here you properly know that I still love to have things physically in my hands. Books are still
these magical things when done right. Another beauty landed on my desk not so long ago.
One of the books I've read a few weeks ago is '
HTML5 For Web Designers' by
Jeremy Keith, published by
A Book Apart. It's been out for a while now, and maybe you've heard or you might have already read it, but for those who haven't, here is my review…
When I
tweeted that my order of a
27" LED Cinema Display was out for delivery I got a bunch of feedback from people asking for a review. I've been working on it for almost a month now, so enough time to have an opinion. When I bought my Mac Pro I bought it with a 24" LED Cinema Display because I didn't want to buy a 30" one that used older technology. Somehow I always knew Apple would eventually bring a bigger one with the LED technology.
As some of you might know, the love for cycling is really strong in Belgium. It's something that really lives here, it's part of who we are, the people, the heroism… A great subject to do something with. The love of sports can be a great story teller and the best way to do that is still a book imho.
