The Modern Web
One of the
things I like about this book is the format, it is very easy to follow and
after each chapter this is a section entitled “Further Reading” which is good
because you can find more information from reading other books on the subject.
That is, if you think you need other books, since this book is written by a
guru of web development.
For those of
you with curious minds, in the book “The WHATWG (you don’t need to know what
that acronym means),” is mentioned, and the WHATWG stands for “Web
Hypertext Application Technology Working Group”. I wanted to know, and even
though the author says I don’t need to know, I still wanted to know; so I did a
search and found their webpage. Very interesting reading.
Anyway, back to the book. When designing websites in today’s world, we need to be aware
of the various media our webpages are being viewed on. TV’s, iPhones, laptops, net books, Macs, tablets, etc. as well as the various web browsers being used.
This doesn’t mean that we have to make one that fits all, nor do we have to
make separate webpages for each type of media or browser. However, using CSS we
can include code that will generate the view for the media being recognized.
Peter
Gasston teaches you “modern coding methods and techniques that you can use to
build websites that work across multiple devices.” You’ll learn core technologies that you need
to build websites across various platforms. He also has once piece of advice that I find
very true, and that is to keep up to date, and this is true regardless of whether
you are a developer of a designer. You really can’t build an up to date website
with outmoded ideas and technologies.
You can find
the book here:
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