Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38892 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 252 pages

Synopsis
Web standards are the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers are using the same technology syntax. It is important that these implementations are the same throughout the Web, otherwise it becomes a messy proprietary place, and lacks consistency. These standards also allow content to be more compatible with multiple different viewing devices, such as screen readers for people with vision impairments, cell phones, PDFs, etc. HTML, XML, and CSS are all such technologies. This book is contains questions and answers on markup and style topics for Web Standards. It will explore the multiple ways you can handle a situation when building with Web Standards - and the advantages and disadvantages of those methods. Additionally, each chapter goes a step further, with "extra credit" sections to give the reader extra tips and trick based on the topic. The reader is empowered to make better decisions based on well-rounded information.

Customer Reviews

Another 5 star review
Not being a Web Designer but a Web Developer doing ASP.Net, I can produce working web sites but they would never be described as "cool" and I thought I just didn't have the ability to create great looking sites - Until now.

After doing an Open university course which peaked my interest in client side web design and CSS, this book shows you how to style and layout your web pages and make them accessible to everyone. You can work through the bite size chapters and by the end of the book you are putting together all the pieces to create a 2 and 3 column flexible layout.

This is great for a beginner and for those who already know CSS.

Great Book!
This is a great book. It's very simple to understand even for the beginner and explains things very clearly with clear examples. The only worry for me would be the fact that it might be a bit outdated in places due to the fact that it was published in 2004. Otherwise, great buy!

This book will definately NOT gather dust on your shelf!
This is a popular book in our studio providing a sound foundation of best practices for CSS & XHTML web design. In a similar way to The CSS Anthology, this book asks a question, such as, "What is the best way to mark up a numbered list of items?" or "How can I use CSS to replace text with an image?" However, this book really becomes it's own, by proceeding to suggest 3 or 4 methods with clear and concise examples, before summarising with the pro's and con's of each method.

It's sectioned into chapters including lists, headings, forms, tables and layouts with the familiar Friends of Ed thumb-indexing for quick and easy access. This is one of those books that you'll keep on your desk for regular reference rather than gather dust on your shelf.