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Tuesday 31 August 2004
summery readings
SUMMER’S NEARING AN end, clouds are still gathering in southern Arizona. Maybe we’ll have some more rain. In the meantime, Dan Cederholm’s “Web Standards Solutions” is hands-down the best book for web professionals this summer. Probably this year.
What’s surprising is that this is Dan’s first book. The style is direct, born of his web site, SimpleBits, which inspired aspects of the book.
“I wanted an easy way to show people the comparison and consequences of various methods – why something may work better over another, instead of just saying it should.”
So Dan developed his quiz-based approach, which allows the reader to not only explore the nuances of structure and style, but also provides us with an idea of how many approaches can – and do – work to achieve the same goal.
Herein lies the draw of Dan’s message: Sometimes there’s more than one approach, and all might be right.
I was curious what it was like to work with Friends of Ed, which many avid computer book readers and fellow authors, editors and publishers will remember as being an imprint of the dead and gone Wrox press UK.
Wrox collapsed under bad finances and had portions of various imprints picked up by Wiley and Apress.
Working with Apress was a good experience for Dan. His virgin adventure as an author appears to have been positive overall. Dan praises his tech editor, Drew McClellan, who is a well-respected and beloved colleague of my own via the Web Standards Project (WaSP).
The experience of writing, Dan says, is quite like his wife’s Triathlon training:
“First it was short 5K runs, then a short triathlon . . .then a marathon. You’re never done, even though each step is an accomplishment.”
Bitten by the book writing bug, Dan is simmering up some book projects for the future. In the meantime, we’ve been graced by a practical and truly useful resource in “Web Standards Solutions.”
Congratulations Dan, on doing something right the first time.
Filed under: standards, web design and development
Posted by: Molly | 6:26 pm |
August 31st, 2004 at 6:54 pm
Molly this is an awesome book. It really is an extremly easy read. Thanks for recomending it.
August 31st, 2004 at 7:12 pm
I don’t own this book yet, but each day I want to get it more. It’s one book that I know will fit quite well on my shelves.
September 1st, 2004 at 1:15 am
It’s a kick-ass book, and Dan’s commissioning editor was Chris Mills, who tech-edited our own Usability book, Molly.
September 1st, 2004 at 6:38 am
I have just recently finished reading it too. Awesome! Truly awesome.
September 1st, 2004 at 7:14 pm
Thanks much for the kind words, Molly, as well as those who commented. I couldn’t imagine a more positive reception for this little book. I need only write approximately 5,298 more books to catch up with you
September 2nd, 2004 at 5:04 am
I fell in love with Dan’s book. I was reading this book while on a flight to Chicago to LA. People thought I was crazy because I was so engrossed reading it and I’d mutter “Ohs and Ahs” once in awhile.
Yup, get the book if you dont have it yet.
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January 23rd, 2006 at 9:20 pm
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