What is included with this book?
About the Author | |
About the Technical Reviewer | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
An Introduction to Web Design | p. 1 |
A brief history of the Internet | p. 2 |
Why create a website? | p. 3 |
Audience requirements | p. 4 |
Web design overview | p. 5 |
Introducing HTML and XHTML | p. 6 |
Introducing CSS | p. 10 |
Creating boilerplates | p. 18 |
Working with website content | p. 24 |
Web Page Essentials | p. 29 |
Starting with the essentials | p. 30 |
Document defaults | p. 30 |
The head section | p. 35 |
The body section | p. 42 |
Web page backgrounds | p. 45 |
Closing your document | p. 57 |
Naming your files | p. 57 |
Commenting your work | p. 58 |
Web page essentials checklist | p. 59 |
Working with Type | p. 61 |
An introduction to typography | p. 62 |
Styling text the old-fashioned way (or, why we hate font tags) | p. 64 |
A new beginning: Semantic markup | p. 65 |
Styling text using CSS | p. 71 |
Working with lists | p. 106 |
Working with Images | p. 119 |
Introduction | p. 120 |
Color theory | p. 120 |
Choosing formats for images | p. 125 |
Common web image gaffes | p. 130 |
Working with images in XHTML | p. 134 |
Using CSS when working with images | p. 136 |
Using Links and Creating Navigation | p. 147 |
Introduction to web navigation | p. 148 |
Navigation types | p. 148 |
Creating and styling web page links | p. 150 |
Links and images | p. 170 |
Enhancing links with Java Script | p. 183 |
Creating navigation bars | p. 195 |
The dos and don'ts of web navigation | p. 230 |
Tables: How Nature (and the W3C) Intended | p. 233 |
The great table debate | p. 234 |
How tables work | p. 235 |
Creating accessible tables | p. 239 |
Styling a table | p. 247 |
Tables for layout | p. 253 |
Page Layouts with CSS | p. 257 |
Layout for the Web | p. 258 |
Workflow for CSS layouts | p. 261 |
CSS layouts: A single box | p. 264 |
Nesting boxes: Boxouts | p. 272 |
Advanced layouts with multiple boxes and columns | p. 278 |
Scrollable content areas | p. 306 |
Getting User Feedback | p. 313 |
Introducing user feedback | p. 314 |
Working with forms | p. 315 |
CSS styling and layout for forms | p. 320 |
Sending feedback | p. 326 |
A layout for contact pages | p. 333 |
Using microformats to enhance contact information | p. 336 |
Contact details structure redux | p. 342 |
Dealing with Browser Quirks | p. 347 |
The final test | p. 348 |
Weeding out common errors | p. 348 |
A browser test suite | p. 351 |
Dealing with Internet Explorer bugs | p. 354 |
Targeting other browsers | p. 367 |
Putting Everything Together | p. 371 |
Putting the pieces together | p. 372 |
Managing style sheets | p. 372 |
Creating a portfolio layout | p. 373 |
Creating an online storefront | p. 378 |
Creating a business website | p. 387 |
Working with style sheets for print | p. 392 |
XHTML Reference | p. 399 |
Standard attributes | p. 400 |
Event attributes | p. 401 |
XHTML elements and attributes | p. 403 |
Web Color Reference | p. 447 |
Color values | p. 448 |
Color names | p. 449 |
Entities Reference | p. 451 |
Characters used in XHTML | p. 452 |
Punctuation characters and symbols | p. 452 |
Characters for European languages | p. 455 |
Currency signs | p. 460 |
Mathematical, technical, and Greek characters | p. 460 |
Arrows, lozenge, and card suits | p. 466 |
Converting the nonstandard Microsoft set | p. 466 |
CSS Reference | p. 471 |
The CSS box model | p. 472 |
Common CSS values | p. 473 |
CSS properties and values | p. 474 |
Basic selectors | p. 489 |
Pseudo-classes | p. 491 |
Pseudo-elements | p. 491 |
CSS boilerplates and management | p. 492 |
Browser Guide | p. 497 |
Firefox | p. 498 |
Internet Explorer | p. 498 |
Opera | p. 499 |
Safari | p. 500 |
Other browsers | p. 500 |
Software Guide | p. 503 |
Web design software | p. 504 |
Graphic design software | p. 505 |
The author's toolbox | p. 506 |
Index | p. 509 |
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