Book description
HTML and CSS are the workhorses of web design, and using them together to build consistent, reliable web pages requires both skill and knowledge. The task is more difficult if you're relying on outdated, confusing, and unnecessary HTML hacks and workarounds. Author Ben Henick shows you how to avoid those traps by going beyond the standard tips, tricks, and techniques to connect the underlying theory and design of HTML and CSS to your everyday work habits.
With this practical book, you'll learn how to work with these tools far more effectively than is standard practice for most web developers. Whether you handcraft individual pages or build templates, HTML & CSS: The Good Parts will help you get the most out of these tools in all aspects of web page design-from layout to typography and to color.
- Structure HTML markup to maximize the power of CSS
- Implement complex multi-column layouts from scratch
- Improve site production values with advanced CSS techniques
- Support formal usability and accessibility requirements with tools built into HTML and CSS
- Avoid the most annoying browser and platform limitations
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Table of contents
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HTML & CSS: The Good Parts
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- Preface
- 1. Hypertext at the Core
- 2. Working with HTML Markup
- 3. CSS Overview
- 4. Developing a Healthy Relationship with Standards
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5. Effective Style and Structure
- The Four Habits of Effective Stylists
- CSS Zen and the Stylistâs Experience
- Information Architecture and Web Usability
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6. Solving the Puzzle of CSS Layout
- The CSS Box Model and Element Size Control
- Quirks Mode and Strict Mode
- auto Values
- Margins, Borders, and Padding
- Element Flow
- Using the display Property to Change an Elementâs Flow
- The float and clear Properties
- Implementing Multicolumn Layouts
- CSS Positioning Properties
- The visibility and z-index Properties
- Obtaining Precise Navigation Source Order and Layout
- Layout Types and Canvas Grids
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7. Working with Lists
- Ordered and Unordered Lists
- Other Uses for Lists
- Styling Navigation Elements
- Definition Lists
- 8. Headings, Hyperlinks, Inline Elements, and Quotations
- 9. Colors and Backgrounds
- 10. (Data) Tables
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11. Images and Multimedia
- Replaced Elements
- Preparing Images for Production
- Image Production
- Working with Color Profiles
- Image Optimization
- Publishing Images
- Styling Images and Plug-in Content
- Adding Motion and Sound: Using SWFObject to Insert Flash Videos and Presentations
- Inserting Unwrapped Multimedia
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12. Web Typography
- A Brief History of Letterforms
- A Visual Glossary of Typography
- Aliasing and Anti-Aliasing
- Type Styles, Readability, and Legibility
- Sizing Type
- Working with Typefaces and Fonts
- Character Encoding in Brief
- Creating Balanced Type Treatments
- Typographical Miscellany in CSS
- The Practice of Good Web Typography
- 13. Clean and Accessible Forms
- 14. The Bad Parts
- A. URIs, Client-Server Architecture, and HTTP
- Glossary
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
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Product information
- Title: HTML & CSS: The Good Parts
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2010
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449388751
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