Current Readings

Following Sean Voisen’s post, I am going to display a list of books I am currently reading as well.

As you can tell I read a great variety of books. I love reading and try to read any moment I can.

Here is a list of those books pictured above from the top to bottom:

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris.
CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition by Christopher Schmitt
Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition) by Jeffrey Zeldman
Inspirability: 40 Top Designers Speak Out About What Inspires by Matt Pashkow
Codin’ for the Web: A Designer’s Guide to Developing Dynamic Web Sites by Charles Wyke-Smith
Computer Security for the Home and Small Office by Thomas C. Greene
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Illustrated (Marketplace Book) by Edwin Lefevre
Simple Web Sites: Organizing Content-rich Web Sites into Simple Structures by Stefan Mumaw

Book Review: Bulletproof Web Design

Author: Dan Cederholm
Pages: 250
Publisher: New Riders Press (July 28, 2005)
ISBN: 0321346939
Amazon Sales Rank: #116,315 in Books

A couple of days ago I finished reading the book Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm, which turned out to be a gem that I will keep on my bookshelf. Even though this book is a bit on the slim side, it is packed with lots of great tips and tricks that need to be utilized more often. I just could not help myself while I was reading this book – I kept thinking that this book should be read especially by those people who still refuse to use CSS for website layout and prefer Tables.

This book is written in a concise and easy to understand language. It is laid out in a consistent manner. Each chapter starts out with one particular example, and then explains why this way is not as efficient, accessible, or bulletproof. After that, it goes into detailed explanation of how to recode it in a better way. Each chapter ends with a summary of covered material and several important bullet points to remember. The illustrations used in this book range from page close-ups to different 3D views of page elements. All of those seemingly simple aspects make this book better and a must have for a web developer.

Here is a list of reviews written by others from around the world.

1. Review by Haacked
2. Review by 456 Berea Street
3. Review by Nate Klaiber
4. Review by Wait till I come!
5. Review by Man vs. Machine
6. Review by Adam on Life
7. Review by Logoblog
8. Review by Design Notes
9. Review by Space Ninja
10. Review by PC Book Review
11. Review by Shiva
12. Review by Visual Gui
13. Review by nimbupani
14. Review by High Browse Online
15. Review by Mac the Web
16. Review by Cornerstone Coding

What I am currently reading…

There are a lot of articles that I am going through per day, and here are a couple of them:

• how to make sexy buttons with CSS - this is a nice little tutorial written by Alex Griffioen that showcases how to create simple but stylish button utilizing sliding door technique.
• CSS hover effect - although it doesn’t work properly in IE6, it is very nice and efficient technique that brings modern web 2.0ish look into a webpage.
• css float theory - a very helpful and insightful article brought by smashing magazine. It explains all the things you should know when dealing with floats.