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I’m very pleased to present A Book Apart, a new publisher of brief books for people who make websites, founded by Jeffrey Zeldman, Mandy Brown, and myself.
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Our first book is HTML5 For Web Designers, by the indomitable Jeremy Keith. If you’re already getting your feet wet with HTML5, or just trying to figure out what the hell it’s all about, you’ll want this one. I’ve read it three times and love how approachable it is. You can read more from Jeffrey about how we chose our first title, or from Mandy on how A Book Apart works as a publisher.
Designing the Series
Web Development and Design Foundations with HTML5 9th Edition by Terry Felke-Morris – (eBook PDF). This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. 1 review for Web Development and Design Foundations with HTML5 9th Edition. CSS3 for Web Designers; RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN. A Book Apart New York. 2 RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN Of course, web designers have been grappling with this for some time. HTML5 - Responsive Web Design. Web designers will continue to offer different. Get Ready for CSS Grid Layout. Rachel often works with other authors as a technical editor.
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While most of the design work I do is for the web, I love getting back to my roots in print. Since I’d already created a simple visual system for A List Apart, I decided to pick up on some of the same elements here, most notably the numbering in the large black circle, the slight overlapping elements, and the color palette change with each edition (to be seen in subsequent books). I wanted these to look like a family on your bookshelf.
I crafted a very simple page design to let the text take the spotlight. It’s a thin book, both in width and thickness, and I spent a long time fiddling with column widths and grids before settling on a comfortable line length. Our books are brief enough that we can’t predictably print on the spines; so I decided to wrap the title from the spine around to the back cover, giving the spine and back cover some identification and texture.
Finding the Right Typefaces
I’m always up for font shopping, so I leapt at the chance to pick up a new text face. We’ll be publishing a variety of code, acronyms, and captions, so I wanted something fairly current, with a healthy set of OpenType features and numbering options. Yoga and its counterpart Yoga Sans by Xavier Dupré fit the bill perfectly. The serif is a similar style to the Garamond we’ve used in ALA and AEA materials, but with a bit of angularity and a more contemporary feel. Yoga Sans makes a great companion for captions and quotes.
To give some punch to the cover and interior headlines, I immediately thought of Titling Gothic by David Berlow, a 49(!) member super family ranging from very thin and narrow to very bold and wide. I selected Regular Skyline which falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. Because page width isn’t very wide, this weight has the added benefit of being heavily condensed, allowing for larger type even with longer titles.
For code excerpts I ran a number of print tests. Some monospace fonts look great on screen but fail on the printed page. I eventually decided on Consolas by Lucas de Groot, one of the fonts that Microsoft commissioned for Vista. Not only does Consolas have really pleasing and distinct letterforms, it also comes with a good bold weight— useful for showing emphasis in the code examples.
Coming Soon
This is just the beginning for A Book Apart. We have more books already in the works. For now, do yourself a favor and preorder HTML5 For Web Designers.
Brief Book For People Who Make Website
Introduction:
Html is the binding together dialect of the World Wide Web.Utilizing only the basic labels it contains, mankind has created an astoundingly different system of hyper linkcd documents, from Amazon, eBay, and Wikipedia, to individual web journals furthermore, sites committed to felines that look like Hitler.
HTML5 is the most recent cycle of this most widely used language. While it is the most driven change to our regular tongue, this isn’t the first occasion when that HTML has been redesigned. The dialect has been advancing from the begin.
Similarly as with the web itself, the HyperText Markup Language was the brainchild of Sir Tim Berners-Lee. In 1991 he composed a document called“HTMLTags” in which he proposed less than two dozen components that could be utilized for writing web pages.
Sir Tim didn’t concoct the ideaof utilizing labels comprising of words between edge sections; those sorts of labels as of now existed in the SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)format. Instead of concocting another standard, Sir Tim saw the advantage of expanding on top of what as of now existed—a pattern that can even now be found in the improvement of HTML5.
Author: “Jeremy Keith”
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