Hardboiled Web Design

By Andy Clarke Foreword by Jeffrey Zeldman

From the author of the best-selling “Transcending CSS”, Five Simple Steps and For A Beautiful Web present:

Available Autumn/Fall 2010 in PDF, ePub, iPad and limited-edition printing of only 2,500

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Getting hardboiled
Foreword by Jeffrey Zeldman
Introduction by Simon Collison
What the hell is hardboiled
Our case study, ‘It’s Hardboiled’

1. Hardboiled web design

Chapter 1: Everything you know about progressive enhancement is wrong
Chapter 2: Why today’s web design workflows need to change
Chapter 3: Why static design visuals fail

2. Hardboiled workflow

Chapter 4: Introducing a hardboiled workflow
Chapter 5: Designing in a browser
Chapter 6: Building a hardboiled toolkit

3. Hardboiled HTML

Chapter 7: Working with HTML5
Chapter 8: Using Microformats
Chapter 9: Understanding WAI-ARIA landmark roles

4. Navigating the browser landscape

Chapter 10: How CSS is developed
Chapter 11: Understanding CSS3 modules
Chapter 12: The importance of vendor prefixes
Chapter 13: Working with JavaScript helpers
Chapter 14: Designing around browser differences
Chapter 15: Universal IE6 CSS

5. Hardboiled CSS

Chapter 16: @font-face
Chapter 17: Layering with RGBa and opacity
Chapter 18: CSS3 borders
Chapter 19: CSS3 background properties
Chapter 20: CSS3 gradients
Chapter 21: CSS3 transforms
Chapter 22: CSS3 transitions
Chapter 23: CSS3 animations
Chapter 24: CSS columns and media queries
Chapter 25: The time to get hardboiled is now

Conclusion

Andy Clarke

Andy Clarke has been called a lot of things since he started working on the web ten years ago. His ego likes words like “ambassador for CSS”, “industry prophet” and “inspiring”, but actually he is most proud that Jeffrey Zeldman once called him a “(triple talented) bastard”.

Andy took ten months of his life to write the best-selling Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, but his passion is amazing web design. He loves designing for the web, writing about design, and teaching it at workshops and conferences all over the world.

Now he is pulling all of those passions together to create For A Beautiful Web, a unique series of web design master classes that cover topics including visual design and best-practice use of technologies.