By Developers, For Developers

Historical errata for Web Design for Developers

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62TYPO

Second paragraph from the top, beginning “We could spend time figuring out the appropriate base font…”: last sentence reads:

> Even if you find a per fect solution for that, users still
can’t make the images larger, so any text that flwos around images will
start to look funny.

“flwos” should be “flows.”

2008-12-02
32TYPO

In the first paragraph about the split complimentary scheme you say that “…it is a little more difficult to use”, but a few paragraphs later you say “this scheme is pretty easy for beginners”. Isn’t this somewhat a contradiction?

2008-12-02
33SUGGEST

In section 3.4, “Invoking Emotion With Color”, I think a warning about how color emotions and meaning can change a lot between different cultures would be welcome. No need to get into specifics, just a friendly warning for readers to do some research if they’re trying to reach a wider audience.

2008-12-02
36SUGGEST

Do we really need a section on “web safe colors”, small as it may be, in this day an age? It never was really safe anyway.

2008-12-02
56SUGGEST

Do we really have web safe fonts? We have a basic guarantee that every platform has at least a serif, a sans-serif and a monospace font available, but we don’t really know what are these fonts. The five fonts picture in the book are the Microsoft Web Fonts, which used to be freely distributed, but aren’t really present in all platforms and devices.

2008-12-02
60TYPO

Section 4.5, second paragraph reads “If you implement this correctly, your text will nine up…”. I guess it should have been “line up”.

2008-12-02
10SUGGEST

I was kind of horrified to see the site that this book leads up to designing. It’s a terrible design. I strongly suggest having a few good web designers review and fix it before publishing.

2008-12-02
56TYPO

This paragraph:

“It turns out that there are really only five truly web-safe fonts. Web-safe
fonts are the fonts that are available on the widest range of computers.
If you stick with a web=safe font, you have tight control over how your
content is presented”

shouldn’t have an equal sign in it, but a dash instead. So “web=safe font” should be “web-safe font”.

2008-12-02
60SUGGEST

“Some designers will even use a different font altogether, which
can really spice up a content-heavy font.”

I think the last word should be site, not font, as “content-heavy font” makes little sense.

2008-12-02
32ERROR

colors don’t go complimenting one another now, do they?

compliment != complement

2008-12-02
50SUGGEST

A Color Calibrator for the monitor is an absolute must for the control freak. If you spend time designing with color (or images) you have to know that you are looking at the correct colors in the first place. It’s something that is never emphasized enough but of tremendous importance to any designer and for those printing as well it’s even more critical.

2008-12-02
10TYPO

Yeah the example on page 10 really got the buyers remorse kicking. : (

not very exciting.

2008-12-02
50SUGGEST

Another issue with the examples is that you ignore the fact that not all of your audience uses their web applications to run a storefront or recipe site (so cliche with all the recipe examples out there .. )

If we are developers of web applications and we’re shopping here it’s probably because we use some web framework like rails or django. This means we can easily generate pretty decent looking websites.

What I’m expecting from this book is what we do when we don’t have access to our frameworks. XHTML, CSS, JS structures from the ground up. The first chapter really let me down on that expectation. If I wanted color theory, I would not have purchased a book on web design.

There is way too much fluff in the first 50 pages of the book. I’ll continue with my suggestions as I proceed.

2008-12-02
66TYPO

Illustrator? Why not give inkscape a plug. It’s open source and .. it’s not adobe.

2008-12-02
73ERROR

This is such lame advice.

Again- plugging adobe. I know a handful of designers that like adobe. Most feel trapped by adobe. And then a lucky group has learned and switched to GIMP. GIMP is a perfectly suitable alternative. It also offers far superior programmability. Yeah, we’re supposed to be developers! That’s right!

This is not Computer Graphics 101. I don’t think many contemporary programmers are inept with photoshop. This is pretty standard stuff.

And what is this GimpShop??@# It’s GIMP!

2008-12-02
101SUGGEST

This book has a very very very long way to go. I would not call this a beta product.

This version of the PDF contains a 104 pages without touching on the code at all. 104 pages in a book on web design without code!? Very frustrating.

Significant adjustment should be made to either the title of the book or the content because this book does not succeed in any of it’s promises to help teach us programmers how to build better frontends to our web applications.

Then again, maybe I just missed the point of the book.

2008-12-02
7575TYPO

“RBG” should be “RGB” in paragraph starting “Create a new document in Photoshop…”

2008-12-02
80TYPO

“header sidebar,main, and footer” should be “header, sidebar, main and footer” in paragraph starting “Now, drag the…”

2008-12-02
30TYPO

Complimentary should be Complementary (colors don’t say “Wow, you look nice”, but rather complete the other). Not sure if spelling is different in US (but I checked and it doesn’t look like it.)

2008-12-02
50TYPO

I’ll just comment on the color calibration comment above. If, and only if, you are going to do print work should you worry much about calibrating your monitor. Why? Because the vast majority of your users will not have color calibrated monitors, thus any calibration you do will be pointless at best. Unless your monitor has been badly mis-calibrated, you are at least as likely to be changing the way you see color in a bad way compared to your users as actually improving it. I mean, who cares if it looks prefect on your monitor if it looks like different on everyone else’s? Now if you are dealing with printing then you should calibrate it, but you have to calibrate it to the particular printing device you are using, and it still won’t be perfect because of the different mechanisms involved.

2008-12-02
27TYPO

Fig 3.2 - Isn’t the blue square on the left that looks darker? or is it just me… and it should be “square” and not “squares”

2008-12-02
28TYPO

“I’ll” and not “i’ll”

2008-12-02
28TYPO

“I’ll” and not “i’ll”

2008-12-02
38ERROR

If I’m not completely mistaken, the order of HTML color codes is red, green, blue as in RGB, so the first byte is for red, the second is for green and the third for blue. [applies to the box “HTML color codes”]

2008-12-02
28TYPO

In Fig. 3.3, the first line should probably say “more obvious” instead of “less obvious.”

2008-12-02
28SUGGEST

In Fig. 3.3, the first line should probably say “more obvious” instead of “less obvious.”

2008-12-02
58ERROR

The first paragraph in the “Choosing Fallback Fonts” section suggests Georgia as a fallback font for Verdana. This is probably meant to be Geneva as shown in the CSS example at the bottom of the page.

2008-12-02
15TYPO

There’s a typo in the second paragraph:
“What workes for you as a developer often works for you as a designer.”
should be
“What works for you …”

2008-12-02
38TYPO

Incorrect comma spacing after the word “brightness” in the last paragraph:

“You then adjust brightness , saturation,
and contrast to create the right mix of colors.You then adjust brightness , saturation,
and contrast to create the right mix of colors.”

2008-12-02
76TYPO

top of the page: “show us a grid on top of our canvas, and we can then use the grid to line up our elements.”

2008-12-04
39ERROR

“The schemes you saw earlier in this chapter were all developed using the RGB color wheel, …”

Surely they were developed using the RYB (subtractive) colour wheel?

2008-12-04
40TYPO

Footnote 2. - Too much accuracy!
“you can’t accurately convert … with absolute accuracy”

2008-12-04
60TYPO

“…sometimes be at odd[s]with accessibility issues.”

2008-12-04
62ERROR

Footnote 4:
CSS can specify the size of an img element in any units you want, so this footnote is not really correct. Admittedly, using relative sizes does present problems, but it does not stop you sizing images.

2008-12-04
19TYPO

The period is missing from the end of the second sentence in the first complete paragraph.

… want the site to look more “fun” Having heard this…

2009-01-21
19TYPO

Second complete paragraph:

It was the kind of comment that just leave you sitting there…

“leave” should be “leaves”, given the singular “comment”.

2009-01-21
19SUGGEST

The first sentence in section 2.3 ends in a preposition. If you’re shooting for proper written English, that should be corrected.

2009-01-21
19TYPO

Second sentence in Section 2.3:

You don’t want use these…

is missing a “to”

You don’t want to use these…

2009-01-21
20TYPO

In the inset box, the final period is missing.

2009-01-21
24ERROR

When referring to figure 2.4, it says:

“It keeps the search box, and the rest of the links, but leaves the login box off of the home page.”

I clearly see a box for “Log in” on that sketch, so that statement is a little confusing to me.

2009-01-21
33TYPO

The first sentence under Monochromatic Scheme is missing an “of”:

a color scheme made up one just one hue.

In the same sentence, I would suggest the comma should be after the phrase “on the next page”.

2009-01-21
34TYPO

In the last paragraph, “compliment” should be “complement”.

2009-01-21
93TYPO

“Photographers are your friends” box, para. 2:
“…they know al the tricks…”
“al” should be “all”.

2009-01-21
97TYPO

The text in the picture says “Get Gookin’” instead of “Get Cookin’”.

2009-01-21
112TYPO

Near end of page:
“When you’re done, the real page(s) won’t look exactly the same as the mockup, but they’ll look so close …”.

Either pluralise “page” or say “it will look so close”.

2009-01-21
15TYPO

Paragraph 3, 4th sentence: “They think it’s too bland, and that want to see”

that should be they

2009-01-21
58TYPO

The first sentence in 4.2 is not a complete sentence: Three types that we can focus on as web developers: Serif fonts, Sans-Serif fonts, and fixed-width (monospaced) fonts. It should probably start with “There are”.

2009-01-21
74ERROR

In creating the logo, it says, clockwise, from top left, are yellow, green, beige, orange, but in the logo on page 75 (and elsewhere? I haven’t checked), it is clearly (clockwise), yellow, green, orange, beige.

2009-01-21
84ERROR

“at the 700 pixel mark” should probably be “at the 702 pixel mark”

2009-01-21
93TYPO

Misspelled word (all): They do it for a living so they know al of the tricks of the trade.

2009-01-21
85SUGGEST

“we’ve got” can be replaced with “we have”:

If you look at the sketch, we’ve got to add a logo,

2009-01-21
96TYPO

Replace “we’ve got” with “we have”:

Right now, we’ve got a decent mockup of the page

2009-01-21
97TYPO

I don’t understand the photo caption. Is “leading” the correct term or is there a word missing?

Figure 7.4: Setting the leading on the text makes it line up with our gridlines

2009-01-21
101ERROR

Figures 8.1 and 8.2 on pages 101 and 102 have opposite gradients applied. Following the instructions on page 100, the gradient would appear as in 8.2, thus suggesting 8.1 is incorrect.

2009-01-21
102ERROR

“in the PSD folder” should be “in the Originals folder” based on the start of the book where the folder layout is suggested.

2009-01-21
44TYPO

In the last paragraph, there are two instances of “complimentary” (with an “i”) and one instance of “compliment” (with an “i”). The i’s should be e’s.

2009-01-21
112TYPO

A bit excessive actually.
“…to actually transform it into an actual web page.”

2009-01-21
115ERROR

“…may instead want a full-width middle area for the content. On those pages, we could omit the sidebar and middle regions and place the content right in the main region.”

Surely you would put the content right in the middle region?

2009-01-21
125TYPO

“Alternative Text” side note:
The footnote makes the exact same point as the second paragraph, and so should be merged or removed.

2009-01-21
129ERROR

“A relative link is relative to SOME ABSOLUTE path.”
Surely it is relative to the CURRENT path (ie. the path containing the file currently being browsed)?

2009-01-21
141ERROR

is NOT valid. It should be

so the validator is correct and the error should not be ignored.

2009-01-21
78TYPO

Extra character in 1st word of 2nd sentence:
IÅn this chapter
should read:
In this chapter

2009-01-21
9TYPO

You’ll learn to create a search icon and buttons for allowing your users to log in to your sight and signup for feedback.

Yes, I know it’s about the beta page which won’t be in the final copy, but in this para, “sight” should be “site”.

2009-01-21
13SUGGEST

Neither he nor the financial backer both like how it
looks.

I think the word “both” in that sentence is unneeded - the “Neither” takes care of that.

2009-01-21
40TYPO

If your site is going to be used by an international audience,
then don’t forget to localise your colors like you localize your text.

Ironically, a line that fails to locali[sz]e its text :)

2009-01-21
15SUGGEST

The tense could be tweaked some in the opening sentence. “… the site we’re using as the …” instead of “… the site we’ll be using as our …”

2009-01-21
13SUGGEST

In talking about YourFoodbox.com, it’d be nice to see the site we’re starting from and the finished product. This portion of the book is a great place to break the changes made to the design down into small pieces with cross-refs to the chapters/sections that cover that particular topic. With screenshots, there’s probably another 3 or 4 pages of content that could be created, just giving bullet point explanations of what we’re about to do.

2009-08-18We kicked this around, but it's just a little too much to add. I did change the intro around some to give a heads-up as to where we're going next.
25TYPO

“Steve just came back with from a meeting with the stakeholders …”

The first “with” looks out of place. Should read “came back from a meeting”? Shouldn’t it be even “Steve has just come back …”?

2009-01-21
75TYPO

“Select the Selection toolfrom”

4th bullet point, need a space between “tool” and “from”

2009-01-21
19TYPO

“You don’t want use these as an actual model,” is missing “to”

2009-01-21
12SUGGEST

Where you talk about sketching out basic designs… one thing that I’ve found helpful, for me at least, is to start with thumbnails… lots of them. Thumbnails are small, low cost and me as the designer/developer doesn’t have alot of emotion wrapped up in them. (You know what I mean… you put alot of effort into one piece, and it hurts on some level when the customer says… yeah, but…) It really allows the customer to see different ideas without the “this is my favorite” comment coming out. Once the customer picks one or two thumbnails, then I actually go to Photoshop or if there is still confusion maybe a hand-drawn sketch. Just a thought…

2009-02-15
13OK

Time to get coding… Again, under the heading of for what it’s worth… Most of the time, I don’t whip out vim, textmate, or if, I’m in an environment particularly into self-loathing, notepad and start trying to mock the page. I’ll typically slice the page up in Photoshop and export the page as HTML. I take that and start converting it to CSS or into dynamic content in Dreamweaver or IntelliJ.

2009-02-15
13SUGGEST

How does that saying go… Opinions are like rear ends, just some are larger than others? Okay, here’s another opinion. This book is for programmer’s right? Why talk about marking up a bunch of pages (even tho I get the hint you’ll talk more about templating technologies later) why not actually mention a technology like tiles or master pages or velocity or anything here (even if it’s the context of later we’ll talk more about doing the same thing with…). It sort’a makes me cringe to think of creating a bunch of html pages with no templating technologies in place, and I think that may take away from your message. (I warned you some “opinions” smell worse than other.)

2009-06-19Templating technologies are out of scope for this book. You need to know fundamentals of page design, layout, etc before you can use them. Grabbing a reference on masterpages, tiles, an even wordpress and applying your design to it is easy. I routinely mock up my sites as a single page html doc before turning it into some master template anyway because I don't need anything other than a text editor and a browser.
39TYPO

This phrase, “it can also trigger feelings of envy (most likely due to the expression ’green with envy’.?” should be corrected to read, “it can also trigger feelings of envy (most likely due to the expression ’green with envy’).”, or “it can also trigger feelings of envy (due to the expression ’green with envy’?).”

2009-02-15
41TYPO

The phrase “evoking feelingselings of uncleanliness” should be “evoking feelings of uncleanliness”.

2009-04-16
45TYPO

The footnote in the sidebar on the page starts with “∗. See the Display…” and should be “∗ See the Display…”

2009-02-15
18SUGGEST

…make sure you understand the real purpose of the site and… the intended audience… Different audiences will interact with sites differently, and audiences will have different expectations…
This is especially challenging when there are different audiences within the site. One set of users may love it; others may hate it. Perhaps an aside or a pullbox might be helpful here talking about a user Personae (or something addressing different audiences). When I have distinctly different groups, I sometimes create Personas for that group. I even give them a name… i.e. Suzy Homemaker or Paul Poweruser… I’ll put down questions they might have, their goals, their needs, the information their looking for, that type of thing… For me at least, it helps keep those users in mind during the design process.

2009-08-18I think that's a neat approach. However I don't think I can get that in at this point.
19OK

“Many developers say that clients don’t know what they want…” This is pragprog… This is agility… How about an “Embrace Change” quote? Okay, so Andy and Dave didn’t publish that one… but pragprog certainly ascribes to the philosophy.

2009-02-15
33SUGGEST

3.3 - Color Schemes, second paragraph:

“I’ve drawn a simple RYB, or mixing color wheel…”

Figure 3.4 references what RYB stands for, but I would include it in the text instead. It provides immediate context w/o having to refer to the figure.

2009-02-15
72TYPO

“…, so learning a little about out can only help you.” should probably read “…, so learning a little about it can only help you.”

2009-02-15
35TYPO

In the phrase “The monochromatic style, shown in Figure 3.5, on the next page is a color scheme…” the comma is misplaced. It should be “The monochromatic style, shown in Figure 3.5 on the next page, is a color scheme…”.

2009-02-15
82TYPO

“…, and we can then36342 use the grid to line up our elements.” should probably read “…, and we can then use the grid to line up our elements.”

2009-02-15
83TYPO

“Our header should be tall enough to clearly show our logo and our login button.”

The above sentence alluded to placing the login button in the header; however, the sketch we are working to at this point (#3) as well as the finished mockup have the login button down in the body of the page.

2009-02-15
86TYPO

Missing comma:

“Now, drag the headersidebar,main, and footer layers into this layer.” should read “Now, drag the header, sidebar, main, and footer layers into this layer.”

2009-02-15
100TYPO

“Now, place the cursor on the top left corner of the canvas. Click and drag diagonally down and left, filling the canvas with the rounded rectangle.” should probably read: “Now, place the cursor on the top left corner of the canvas. Click and drag diagonally down and right, filling the canvas with the rounded rectangle.”

This results in the desired effect of the covering the entire canvas.

2009-02-15
104TYPO

“Our sketch shows two large buttons on the left side of the page.” should probably read “Our sketch shows two large buttons on the right side of the page.”

2009-02-15
80TYPO

The illustration appears to have two captions.

2009-02-15
105SUGGEST

You write:

“You can help the button stand out a little more by by adding a stroke, or an outline around the button. Select Stroke from the list of layer effects and choose a stroke width of 1 pixel. Lower the opacity to around 45% to make it fade out nicely. Be sure to add the stroke to the inside of the area.”

What color stroke do you recommend?

2009-02-15
105TYPO

You write: “Save your button as button.psd in the psds folder of your project”

We have not created a psds folder; rather, we have an ‘originals’ folder.

2009-02-15
44TYPO

in describing the editors, “using Notepad or VI”, I don’t know about Notepad, but nobody who has much experience with Unix/Linux systems and its “vi” editor would capitalize “VI”, if for no other reason than that “VI” will not start the editor, but “vi” will. You should use lowercase for both letters in “vi”.

2009-02-15
170ERROR

At the top of the page, the text description of “margin: 0px auto;”, 0 pixels on the top and bottom, auto on the right and left, appears correct. However, the“verbose” definition, indicating 0 on the left and auto on the bottom, does not appear to be correct.

2009-02-15
20SUGGEST

“There’s alot of physical science to understand this…” I know you don’t mean it this way, but doesn’t that sound a bit condescending (even my fourteen-year-old daughter thought so)? I genuinely like your example, but the phrase does somewhat stick in my craw.

2009-02-15
163TYPO

“So know that you know how to define styles, …” should read “So now that you know how to define styles, …”

2009-02-15
50TYPO

Image 3.13 credit reads “Original mage Courtesy of Morguefile”. s/mage/Image/

2009-04-16
179OK

“…the “Coverup” method, which was created by
Petr Staní269;ek and is explained in full detail at WellStyled.com1."

Notice the “269;” in the name?

2009-02-15
180TYPO

Search Recipes

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I’m assuming those two closing square brackets and greater than sign are not supposed to be there after the closing h2 tag.

2009-02-15
181TYPO

We are using a background image to do the Cover Up method. We are using instructed to use this code:

background:url(“search_header.gif”) top left no-repeat;

In fact, following along, we have named the image search_recipes.gif and it is in the images folder, so the code should be:

background:url(“images/search_recipes.gif”) top left no-repeat;

2009-02-15
186SUGGEST

It’s a minor point, but your text instructs us to … “Add this code to your style.css …”

Anyone following along step by step has not created a style.css at this point in the book.

2009-02-15
186TYPO

“a:visited;{color:#4b541c;}” should read “a:visited{color:#4b541c;}”

No semicolon should following the pseudo-class ‘visited’

2009-02-15
30SUGGEST

4th paragraph:
“objects absorb some light and reflect others”

How about:
“ojects absorb some wavelengths of light and reflect others”

2009-04-16
35TYPO

Near top:
“I’ll use throughout this chapter”

How about:
“I’ll use it thought this chapter”

2009-04-16
41TYPO

Footnote at bottom:
“its overuse hints that the designer may be is inexperienced”

How about:
“its overuse hints that the designer may be inexperienced”

2009-04-16
45TYPO

Footnote at bottom is all run together, without spaces

52TYPO

Figure 3.13 caption:
“Original mage” should be “Original image”

2009-04-16
54TYPO

End of page: “schoose” should be “choose”

2009-04-16
55TYPO

Figure 3.16 caption: “Colorschemer” is written “ColorSchemer” earlier in the chapter

2009-04-16
58TYPO

Last word: “shareholders”

How about: “stakeholders”

2009-04-16
66TYPO

Last paragraph:
“It’s a wider font, and and so it tends to fill out a space a little better than Arial”

duplicate ‘and’

2009-04-16
67TYPO

Footnote 2 is on page 67, even though it’s referenced on page 66

77TYPO

4th bullet point: “Selection toolfrom” (toolfrom ran together)

2009-04-16
77TYPO

4th bullet point:
“Check to make sure that the bottom of the f also touches the guide. If it’s not, keep resizing”

How about:
“Check to make sure that the bottom of the f also touches the guide. If IT DOESN’T, keep resizing”

2009-04-16
60TYPO

First paragraph, second sentence: “shoose” should be “choose.”

2009-04-16
73TYPO

Last paragraph, second sentence: “…ad lines should…” the word “and” is misspelled.

2009-04-16
45ERROR

The link to Site Pro in the page footer does not seem to work.

2009-04-16
49TYPO

Question mark shouldn’t be after “should be completely different.” (sidebar second last sentence, first paragraph)

2009-04-16
259TYPO

Second paragraph, last sentence under Minify scripts section: “…in your files since the minifiaction process…” minification is misspelled.

Last sentence on page: “…YUI Compressor, a cammand-line…” command is misspelled.

2009-04-16
37ERROR

Complementary scheme: “Blue and yellow are great colors for this scheme, as are purple and green.” I’m very confused by this sentence. Blue and yellow are not opposites on the color wheel, and neither are purple and green. I interpret the term “directly complement” to mean they must be directly across the wheel from each other.

2009-04-16
169ERROR

The closing bracket for the link tag should not have slash-bracket. That does not validate in HTML 4.01 strict. Remove the slash and it validates.

2009-04-16
212ERROR

The ‘before’ and ‘after’ text in the iepngfix.htc change is identical.

2009-04-16
227TYPO

trail copy -> trial copy

2009-04-16
230TYPO

class=“print” -> class=“noprint”

2009-04-16
175TYPO

‘tow’ should be ‘two’ in the following line:

sidebar regions. In our HTML code, those tow regions are both wrapped

2009-04-16
210TYPO

-“15.6 Internet Exploer 8”
+“15.6 Internet Explorer 8”

2009-04-16
68TYPO

should line up, ad lines shouldn’t break

ad lines => and lines?

2009-04-21
175TYPO

sidebar regions. In our HTML code, those tow regions are both wrapped

tow => two

2009-04-21
214TYPO

you look at Figure 15.3, on the next pagewe don’t have anything to fix

pagewe => page we

2009-04-21
243TYPO

away to someone else’s site, the search engines might think that page
has any relevant content and give the page a lower score.

might think that page doesn’t have any
imo, seems to make more sense to me.

2009-04-21
241SUGGEST

Should we really add keywords? I’m in the process of building my own blog from the ground up. On your recommendation I decide to look at what keywords some of my favorite blogs used, and I was surprised to find they had none (Coding Horror and Joel on Software to name a couple). I then looked at the website for this book and also noticed that no keywords were present. I then did a search and found a blog post in 2008 that claimed almost no search engines use the keywords meta tag anymore and those that do give it a very small weight. After searching a little more I did notice that Ruby Inside is using the keywords meta tag.

So what’s the deal? Am I missing something?

2009-04-21Really good question. I'll address it. Keywords are not weighted heavily but they certainly don't hurt to add them. They only help. Big sites like CodingHorror and Joel don't *need* keywords because they have been around for a LONG time and they get trackbacks. Links to your site are more valuable than meta keywords, but keywords still have value.
167TYPO

In the second to last paragraph:
“It also mixes content from design…”
Should be:
“It also mixes content with design…”

2009-08-18
32TYPO

I don’t think this is scientifically accurate: “Your eyes are subtracting, or absorbing, some
wavelengths and then sending the other ones on to your brain.”

2009-08-18It's confusing in the text so I'll rework it, but it's technically true-colors are mixed via subtraction by your retina.
47ERROR

When entering a base color of #FFE500 in SitePro Central (which btw doesn’t seem to have a website anymore) the first color is #FFE100 not #FFE500 as indicated in the screen shot. I’m not sure which is correct but I was expecting the base color I entered to be one of the colors included in the palette.

2009-08-18This actually explains some of the problems I have had working with the picker myself - never quite noticed why. Moving the crosshairs gives you correct values, placing the hex code does not. I'm rewriting the color selection piece now, using a different color tool, which will result in slightly different color values. Thank you so much for this comment.
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The section on Evoking Emotion With Color does not really divulge how the positive and negative emotions are evoked. I’m sure this would probably take another book to explain fully. E.g. “Blue relaxing but particular shades can cause feelings of depression..”. What shades would these be? Perhaps this is out of scope for the book but some references would be useful here.

2009-08-18
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Stray ? in the ‘The Three Color Rule’ box “be completely different.? White shirt”

2009-08-18
84TYPO

Mixing ‘percent’ and %: “54 percent of users are using 1024x768, and 26%”

Personally I’d prefer one or the other, perhaps I miss some grammatical rule.

2009-08-18
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p{font-family: Trebuchet, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;)

should be:

p{font-family: Trebuchet, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;}

2009-08-18
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Second Paragraph and 4th sentence under “Selecting colors using the ‘technical’ method”. the word “it’s” should be capitalized.

2009-08-18
256TYPO

Last reference, Zeldman, is listed as “Second Addition” rather than “Second Edition.”

2009-08-18
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Figure 11.1: Missing the Arrow’s Label “Value”

2009-11-08
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The list seems a bit oversized in my PDF (o: (Can only see the value-column with IE=8 to IE=EmulateIE7)

2009-11-09
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Some devices that read .mobi files (Palm T|X, for example) can show color images. It’d be nice to have that as an option (or default if it causes an issue for other devices.)

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On your erratum form, don’t require a page number for .mobi files (or add a MOBI entry field, although that’s most likely useless.)

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In the .mobi edition, where the PDF has (see Figure 2.1, on page 19) the .mobi says (see Figure Our_stakeholders_deemed_this_design_too_boring._We’ll_improve_on_this_design_over_the_course_of_this_book.)

And this is true of all figures throughout the book - I get the caption instead of the figure number (which you’d expect from an automated process. :)

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In the .mobi all figures restart at 1 (ie, PDF page 76 has Figure 5.1, that same figure is Figure 1 in the .mobi.

135ERROR

Under the Anchors section it has:

Ingredients

….
]]>

The next example has the same “]]>” text at the end of it.

This is also in the .mobi version.

2009-11-08You may be looking at an old release of the book. A current copy of the book should have different code for that section - a div instead of a named anchor.
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.mobi version: In chapter 12, in the paragraph right after the h2 CSS example at the beginning of the chapter, the end of the next paragraph contains:

Missing: LAYOUT: need to set this character

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We can use
“jQuery’s Geometry option to pass only…”

should be

“We can use
ImageMagick’s Geometry option to pass only…”

2009-11-09
20TYPO

In the box there is a typo, “It’s can be tough to deal with the…”. It should be “It” rather than “It’s”.

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Reply to Brian.

There seems to be a discrepancy. The version number above says October 30, 2009 B5.0 but both my PDF and .mobi version say

Version B5.0 (October 28, 2009)

So, do I have the most recent or not? I don’t know. But I do know that the errors/extra markup on this page exist in the B5.0 document that I have.

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Image span:

The markup for the foodbox_header says:

Foodbox

missing the

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the section on style guides in the paragraph that starts

The whole point of a style guide is to create

has “organization” spelled as “origination”

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.mobi edition:

Style section

right after the #main a:link:after, #main a:visited:after
css segment there is:

Missing: this figure is going off the page

0ERROR

.mobi edition

Talking about IE8 there is text that says:

and the W3C Selectors API, with limited support for the W3C Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 Specification (Working Draft). "

there is:

Missing: the following image is not fitting on the page, obviously. I couldn’t read it to edit it either.

0ERROR

Chapter 22
Recommended Reading

Missing: Need descriptions for these

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.mobi edition

General Web-Design Blogs

Color Resources
Missing: Need cites for these

0ERROR

.mobi edition

Websites

Technical Books
Missing: Need cites for these

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I find figure 21.1 a bit stumbling. If I already got an account then I will login and not sign up. I would change the text above the big “Sign Up” button.

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You switch from working on layout.css in the previous chapter to working on style.css in this one but make no mention of it (or the corresponding ‘link’ change to index.html) . Following along, I kept appending to layout.css before it occurred to me that doesn’t make sense.

I don’t really recall any discussion of why to use multiple css files and the pros/cons associated with doing so.

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It would be nice to have a link to download the images used in this chapter (similar to your links for the code).

86TYPO

Missing space: “Begin by changing the units for the rulers topx using …” should read “Begin by changing the units for the rulers to px using …”

142TYPO

In the box explaining Entity Codes, the third paragraph is explaining the use of curly quotes and rather than giving the entity code, as the reader expects, the actual characters are shown.

134TYPO

‘You can links to other documents on the same server, other servers, or even pots on the same page.’

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The IE8 default was changed just before it was released and so it does apply the standards by default. You need to put the browser into compatibility mode in order to NOT apply the standards - the exact opposite of what the book says.

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The whole point of a style guide is to create a consistent presentation throughout all of an origination’s publications and communications.

The word “origination’s” should be “organization’s”

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On page 20, erratum: “you will to get a feel”.

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On page 83, “rulers topx” sounds suspicious, but I can’t confirm that it is incorrect that because I don’t have Photoshop.

134TYPO

On page 134, “you can links to”.

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On page 194, the tag looks wrong.

198TYPO

On page 198, “origination’s” should probably read “organization’s”.

203TYPO

On page 203, the sentence beginning with “Some CSS…” should not be placed in paragraph tags.

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On page 231, it should read “other ways than color”.

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On page 246, “user[active]” should read “user_active”.

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On page 277, “related to [your] site’s design”.

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On page 289, “turns [out] this”.

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On page 307, the “(document)” is missing a preceding “$”.

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+z$8frZdyL%68pSU/:>w<:E3.lG-!XIB

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In the sidebar, first line “It’s can be tough to deal with the odd requests you get from your clients.” should be “It can be tough to deal with…”

“It’s” should be changed to “It”

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