designing with web standards
Picture two dogs happily tearing furniture up in a room, breaking into bags of food, and, of course, relieving themselves everywhere. Then, at the height of chaos, the owner walks in and everything is dead silent. Let the dogs be the majority of the web designers and the owner be Web Standards.
At times, working with Web Standards can be difficult. Sometimes it'll be easier to just toss a table in your layout than to bang your head off of CSS Positioning. But like any dirty habit, once you've curbed it, you'll be cleaner and stronger in the end.
Designing With Web Standards is the best place to begin for anyone who'd like to start playing by the rules and help make the Web more sane. Not only will you get a solid starting point at how to fix that mess known as "Your Website", but also understand why you should. When you've finished this book, you'll have that sobering feeling that comes after a long night of drinking and blurred events -- pain, a resolution to never let that happen again, and a hope that no one saw you.
If you publish information on the Web (even if the word "Web" isn't in your job title), you should really learn how to do it correctly. This book won't make you a Web Standards professional overnight, but it will give you all the information you need to practice. I give it a 10/10.
