The Essential Guide to Css and Html Web Design

by Grannell, Craig

• ISBN13: 9781590599075
• ISBN10: 1590599071
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-12
• Publisher: Apress

Summary

The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design is a special book-it will tell you all you need to know to design great web sites that are standards compliant, usable, and look great, but not overwhelm you with waffle, theory, and obscure details. It is designed to be invaluable to you, whatever stage you are at in your career, with a mixture of practical tutorials and reference material-beginners will quickly pick up the basics, while more experienced web designers and developers will keep returning to the book again and again to recap on techniques they maybe haven't used for a while, or look up properties, attributes and other details. It is destined to become a close friend, adopting a permanent place on your desk.

Table of Contents

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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