HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint^TM for designing effective web pages

by Rob Huddleston

• ISBN13: 9780470274361
• ISBN10: 0470274360
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Visual

Summary

This edition of the bestseller-previous editions have sold a combined 110,000 copies-has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include modern, standards-compliant design principles and best practices Offers visual learners a solid reference packed with hundreds of screen shots and straightforward examples so they can learn to create and design Web pages that will have an impact on their audience Step-by-step, two-page lessons show how to set up a Web page, reduce image resolution, create radio buttons, add a hit counter, add an embedded sound, include content from other sites, and more The companion Web site contains all the necessary code to learn HTML

Author Biography

Rob Huddleston has been developing Web pages and applications since 1994, and has been an instructor since 1999, teaching Web and graphic design to thousands of students. His clients have included the United States Bureau of Land Management; the United States Patent and Trademark Office; the State of California and many other federal, city and county agencies; the United States Army and Air Force; Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, Wells Fargo, Safeway, and Coca-Cola; software companies including Oracle, Intuit, and Autodesk; the University of California, San Francisco State University, the University of Southern California; and hundreds of small businesses and non-profit agencies. Rob is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Certified Expert, and Certified Developer, is an Adobe User Group Manager, and was named as an Adobe Community Expert for his volunteer work answering user questions in online forums. Rob lives in northern California with his wife and two children.
Rob is the author of XML: Your visual blueprint to creating expert websites using XML, CSS, XHTML, and XSLT, published by Wiley Publishing in 2007. You can visit Rob’s blog at www.robhuddleston.com.

Table of Contents

How To Use This Book

Introducing Html And Xhtml

Introducing HTML

Introducing XHTML

Introducing Cascading Style Sheets

Introducing JavaScript

Understanding Creation Tools

Understanding Web Browsers

Understanding Web Servers

Plan Your Web Site

Introducing Html Basics

Create a Basic Web Page.Save and Preview a Web Page

Create Headings

Create Paragraphs

Add Line Breaks

Add Horizontal Rules

Add Comments to the Code.Apply Logical Formatting

Creating Hyperlinks

Plan Your Navigation.Structure Web Site Files

Understanding File Paths

Create a Link to a Page in Your Site

Create a Link to a Page on the Web

Create a Link Within a Page

Create a Link to an E-mail Address

Set Tooltips for Links.Test Your Links

Working With Images

Understanding Image File Formats

Add an Image to Your Page

Specify Alternate Text for an Image

Specify the Size of an Image

Using Images as Links

Add a Favorites Icon

Using Tables

Add a Table to Your Page

Add Headers to Your Table

Create Cells That Span Rows or Columns

Set the Border of the Table

Set the Width of a Table

Add Space Within a Table

Define Sections of a Table

Define Columns

Using Lists

Add a Bulleted List to Your Page

Add a Numbered List to Your Page

Add a Definition List to Your Page.

Nest a List Within a List

Formatting The Text On Your Page.

Get Started with Cascading Style Sheets

Understanding Units of Measurement

Set the Size of Text on a Page

Set the Font on a Page

Using Color on the Web

Change the Color of Text on a Page

Adjust the Height of Lines.

Make Text Bold or Italic

Indent and Align Text

Using Additional Font Properties

Using the Font Shorthand Property

Applying More Formatting To Your Page

Add Background Colors to Elements on a Page

Add Background Images to Elements on a Page

Control the Position of Background Images

Using the Background Shorthand Property

Add Padding to Elements on a Page

Add Borders to Elements on a Page

Add Margins to Elements on a Page

Set the Width and Height of Elements

Using CSS Shorthand Properties for the Box Model.Style Links

Style Tables

Replace the Bullets on a List

Control the Indentation of Lists

Customize Cursors

Working With Other Css Selectors

Apply Styles to More than One Element at a Time

Using the Span Element.Structure the Page with the Div Element.

Control Styles with Classes

Style Specific Elements with IDs

Apply Styles with Contextual Selectors

Apply Other Selectors

Create Effects with Pseudo-Elements

Apply Additional Styles through Pseudo-Classes

Specify Rules as Important.Create an External Style Sheet

Override Styles Using the Cascade

Laying Out Your Page

Lay Out Your Page Using Floated Elements

Clear Floats

Lay Out Your Page Using Absolute Positioning

Lay Out Your Page Using Relative Positioning

Lay Out Your Page Using Fixed Positioning

Work with Element Overflow

Set Minimum and Maximum Widths and Heights

Apply the Display Property

Replace a Header with an Image

Create Tabbed Navigation

Create "You Are Here" Navigation

Create a Print Style Sheet

Understanding Common CSS Hacks

Adding Forms.Create A Form

Add a Text Box

Add Labels

Add Check Boxes and Radio Buttons

Build a Drop-Down

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