WEB STANDARDS CREATIVITY

Getting Creative
with Web Standards
“Not another Web Standards book!” I hear you cry, “I already own a copy of CSS Mastery, so why would I need anything
else?” Well, if you can give me a couple of minutes, I’d like to explain why you should buy this book.
Web Standards have come a long way since the first glimmer in W3C’s eye. In the early days, CSS was the preserve of coders
and gained a reputation of being “boxy but good.” Pioneers like Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer helped popularize the use
of standards and inspired designers like Douglas Bowman and Todd Dominey to create some of the first commercially
successful standards-based sites around (see Figures 1 and 2).
Figure 1. Wired News was redesigned in October 2002 by Douglas
Bowman. This was one of the first major commercial sites to adopt
Web Standards and prompted many companies to follow suit.
Figure 2. Designed by Todd Dominey in 2003, the 85th PGA
Championship website showed that standards-based designs could
be as beautiful as their table-based counterparts.