Publications
We have contributed to various books and magazines (both online and off.) Bright Creative founder Dave Shea’s personal site, mezzoblue.com, is a popular destination for web designers of all stripes. Below is a brief sampling of published material we’ve contributed to in some way or another.
The Zen of CSS Design
New Riders, 2005
Contribution: co-authored.
Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites. By using the Zen Garden sites as examples of how CSS design techniques and approaches can be applied to specific Web challenges, authors Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag provide an eye-opening look at the range of design methods made possible by CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). (View on Amazon)
More Eric Meyer on CSS
New Riders, 2004
Contribution: technical editing, design work featured in Chapter 10
Eric Meyer is back with another project-based how-to on everyone's favourite style language. A number of case studies (including a look at the author's contribution to the Zen Garden design project) explain aspects of CSS that affect position, color, typeface, and other design elements. Bright Creative's Dave Shea served as technical editor for this book, and contributed the design work for the Zen Garden case study featured in Chapter 10. (View on Amazon)
CSS: Separating Content from Presentation, Second Edition
New Riders, 2005
Contribution: case study of the building of mezzoblue.com
This book is a focused guide to using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for the visual design of web pages. It provides concise coverage of all the essential CSS concepts developers need to learn (such as separating content from presentation, block and inline elements, inheritance and cascade, the box model, typography, etc). It also covers the syntax needed to effectively use CSS with your markup document (for example CSS rules, how to structure a style sheet, linking style sheets to your (X)HTML documents, CSS boxes etc). (View on Amazon)