Web Standards Solutions

* Provides several options for building with Web Standards, and explains the advantages/disadvantages of each option.
* Author is well-known within the Web Standards community - his website has 50,000-100,000 hits/month.
* Provides information with the designer in mind.
* Where aren't many books available on this topic.
* We are pushing to have this book endorsed by the Web Standards project and Jeffrey Zeldman, who is one of the best known and respected guys in the field.
* This is a good book to combine with the upcoming Briggs' Cascading Style Sheets. While the Briggs book deals exclusively with CSS, this book offers a wider range of options.

Dan Cederholm is an award-winning web designer, consultant, and author who specializes in designing and building sites with web standards. Throughout 2003, Dan became well known for his redesigns of the websites for Fast Company and Inc. using standards-compliant methods, while pushing the limits of CSS. Dan also runs the popular weblog SimpleBits, for which he writes articles and commentary on the web, technology, and life. His consulting firm of the same name focuses on applying the methods found throughout Web Standards Solutions (Apress, 2009) in creating simplistic and attractive interfaces. Speaking at conferences such as SXSW Interactive, Dan shares his simplistic approach to web design and development while spreading the word on the standards-based markup and style techniques he's collected. He lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with his wife, Kerry, two cats, and one gecko.