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Hardboiled Design by Andy Clarke


Andy Clarke is UK based designer, author and speaker who has a passion for design, CSS and web accessibility.
Andy Clarke has been called a lot of things since he started working on the web at Stuff and Nonsense ten years ago. His ego likes words like ambassador for CSS.

Andy is a member of the Web Standards Project and a former invited expert to the W3C's CSS Working Group. Andy regularly writes about creating beautiful, accessible web sites and he speaks at events worldwide. He took ten months out of his life to write the best-selling book Transcending CSS: The Fine Art Of Web Design, but Andy's passion is amazing web design. He loves making designs for the web, writing about design and teaching it at workshops and conferences all over the world.

Hardboiled Web Design will be hard, not soft-boiled. Like a hardboiled detective, it will pull no punches in explaining HTML5 and CSS3 in the context of the complete process of making the web. It will take a cold, hard look at the realities of designing and developing for an ever changing and expanding browser/device landscape and suggest radical new ways to deal with the issues of coping with older browsers and technologies.

He say's:-

(i)   Websites will never look the same in all browsers. Stop worrying about it and carry on!

(ii)  If you do consider browsers then design from the top down, not the bottom up.

(iii) You show your designs to the client in Fireworks and HTML.

Andy Clarke doing his 'Hardboiled Web Design' talk at the DIBI Web Conference.
You can see video here:-  http://player.vimeo.com/video/17137962?

Books by Andy Clarke :-

(i)   Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design
(ii)  Designing Web Accessibility for a Beautiful Web, DVD (Voices That Matter)
(iii) Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with XHTML, CSS, and DOM Scripting
(iv)  CSS Artistry: A Web Design Master Class (includes full-color Transcending CSS book and 2 1/2-hour Inspired CSS DVD video
(v)   Hardboiled Web Design
(vi)  Inspired CSS: Styling for a Beautiful Web, DVD
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