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  • Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, Special Edition
  • http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=9781430219200
  • Published: 25th May 2009
  • ISBN-10: 1-4302-1920-3
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-1920-0
  • RRP: $34.99 (USD)
  • 300 Pages
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Web Standards Solutions:
The Markup and Style Handbook Special Edition

By Dan Cederholm


Special Edition with up-to-date information, and bonus chapters online!

This is the updated and expanded Special Edition of Dan Cederholm's best-selling Web Standards Solutions. 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. Utilizing web standards helps deliver content to the widest audience possible, while also ensuring future compatibility. These standards also allow content to be more compatible with different viewing devices, such as screen readers, mobile phones and handheld devices. HTML, XHTML, and CSS are all examples of Web Standards technologies.

This book is your essential guide to understanding the advantages you can bring to your web pages by implementing web standards and knowing precisely how to apply them.

Web standards such as XHTML and CSS are now fairly well-known technologies, and they will likely be familiar to you, the web designer—indeed, they are all around you on the Web. However, within web standards still lies a challenge—while the browser's support for web stan- dards is steadily increasing, many web developers and designers have yet to discover the real benefits of web standards or to respect the need to adhere to them. The real art is in truly understanding the benefits and implementing the standards efficiently.

Web Standards Solutions is broken down into 16 short chapters, each covering the theory and practice of different web standards concepts and showing multiple solutions to given problems for easy learning. You'll learn about creating multicolumn layouts, using image replacement techniques to your best advantage, making the best use of tables and lists, and much more. This highly modular approach allows you to rapidly digest, understand, and utilize the essentials of web standards.

In this book you'll learn how to:

  • Lay out pages easily and effectively
  • Use XHTML elements correctly so that your markup is compact and more easily understood
  • Use CSS to style different elements of a web page

Summary of Contents

  • Part One: Get Down With Markup
    • Lists
    • Headings
    • Tables are Evil
    • Quotations
    • Forms
    • <Strong>, <Em>, and Other Phrase Elements
    • Anchors
    • More Lists
    • Minimizing Markup
  • Part Two: Simplebits of Style
    • Applying CSS
    • Print Styles
    • CSS Layouts
    • Styling Text
    • Image Replacement
    • Styling <body>
    • Next Steps

This book is part of friends of ED's 'Solutions' series

The Solutions series continues the pragmatic approach of the Essential Guide, but offers more in-depth answers to common technology problems. Once you're up and running with a technology, a Solutions book is the one you want at hand when you run into a stumbling block. Each chapter focuses on an aspect of the technology and gives the answer to all of the common problems related with it. With every answer, you are provided with a full explanation of the issue, giving you the whys, the wheres, and the workarounds, and an example application or code snippet that you can use to solve the problem in your own application.