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designing with web standards by Jeffrey Zeldman

• Paperback: 456 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x 9.06 x 7.04
• Publisher: New Riders; 1st edition (May 14, 2003)
• ISBN: 0735712018
• Average Customer Review: Based on 71 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: 2,194

 This book has darned near changed my life. I've had the 800x600px monkey of presentational >table< junk on my back for too long, living in a world where client-side coding was structured for technology that was new over 10 years ago. This book has really swept the sleep from my eyes, revealing a new paradigm: backwards usability, present utility and forward compatibility.

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posted by Brian @ 9:04 AM 0 Comments

Confession time, my time.

I'm a bit of a technology geek. I also have a gift for understatement. Today, I'm posting to the net from my laptop. This is not exciting in and of itself. What if I told you I was posting from seat on the train, commuting home on the Metra, using a bluetooth connection from my laptop to access my cell phone's GPRS data connection by T-Mobile to access the internet? What then?

You're probably unimpressed. That's too bad, cause I got to leave the office early today, and still get some work done on the way home. You're probably going to be sitting in a car staring at a bumper in front of you for an hour or two. I used to be that guy. No more. This is my kind of freedom!

posted by Brian @ 1:37 PM 0 Comments