Web Design for Developers: A Programmer's Guide to Design Tools and Techniques
-Friday, June 05, 2009 By: Jon Kinney
I recently had the privilege of tech reviewing a great book about how to create standards compliant, accessible, and attractive web designs. The goal of the book is to cover web design with the programmer in mind. Brian Hogan, the book's author, does this by taking the reader on a journey to build the next great social recipe sharing website "Foodbox". To me this book helps arm application developers with the knowledge to help blur the line that some companies try to arbitrarily place between a design team and a development team. After all, just because someone is a "coder" doesn't mean he or she can't create an attractive and usable site!
The book's content covers everything from color theory to IE bugs and really does a great job of building the base of knowledge required to create accessible designs on today's web.
My current role as a web application developer and designer allowed me to provide some constructive criticism on a few wording or accuracy issues, which is of course the purpose of doing a tech review. But rather than focus on my nitpicks, what I want to share in a few posts that will follow over the next week are all the great things that I learned from the book. I'm a firm believer that you should try to learn something new every day (see some tweets about that) and this book certainly taught me a thing or two!
Check back soon, I'll be posting some great information about how to setup your design environment to adhere to "the baseline grid" along with a few neat tricks and tips that this book presents.
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Tech Review: Web Design For Developers - June 2009
A friend of mine in the web development community is releasing a book called "Web Design for Developers: A Programmer's Guide to Design Tools and Techniques". I was asked to do a tech review of the book and will be sharing my thoughts as well as some cool info presented in the book in a short series of upcoming blog posts. If you want to grab a beta copy of the book head over to my favorite publisher The Pragmatic Programmers.
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