Designing With Web Standards

by Zeldman, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780735712010
• ISBN10: 0735712018
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: New Riders Press

Summary

You code. And code. And code. You build only to rebuild. You focus on making your site compatible with almost every browser or wireless device ever put out there. Then along comes a new device or a new browser, and you start all over again. You can get off the merry-go-round. It's time to stop living in the past and get away from the days of spaghetti code, insanely nested table layouts, tags, and other redundancies that double and triple the bandwidth of even the simplest sites. Instead, it's time for forward compatibility. Isn't it high time you started designing with web standards? Standards aren't about leaving users behind or adhering to inflexible rules. Standards are about building sophisticated, beautiful sites that will work as well tomorrow as they do today. You can't afford to design tomorrow's sites with yesterday's piecemeal methods. Jeffrey teaches you to: Slash design, development, and quality assurance costs (or do great work in spite of constrained budgets) Deliver superb design and sophisticated functionality without worrying about browser incompatibilities Set up your site to work as well five years from now as it does today Redesign in hours instead of days or weeks Welcome new visitors and make your content more visible to search engines Stay on the right side of accessibility laws and guidelines Support wireless and PDA users without the hassle and expense of multiple versions Improve user experience with faster load times and fewer compatibility headaches Separate presentation from structure and behavior, facilitating advanced publishing workflows

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete	p. 23
Designing and Building with Standards	p. 45
The Trouble with Standards	p. 73
XML Conquers the World (And Other Web Standards Success Stories)	p. 101
Modern Markup	p. 141
XHTML: Restructuring the Web	p. 153
Tighter, Firmer Pages Guaranteed: Structure and Meta-Structure in Strict and Hybrid Markup	p. 173
XHTML by Example: A Hybrid Layout (Part I)	p. 197
CSS Basics	p. 211
CSS in Action: A Hybrid Layout (Part II)	p. 235
Working with Browsers Part I: DOCTYPE Switching and Standards Mode	p. 259
Working with Browsers Part II: Box Models, Bugs, and Workarounds	p. 273
Working with Browsers Part III: Typography	p. 299
Accessibility Basics	p. 327
Working with DOM-Based Scripts	p. 361
A CSS Redesign	p. 383
Modern Browsers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	p. 419
Index	p. 425
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