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Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series)


  


 : Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series)

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762
EAN: 9781590593813
ISBN: 1590593812
Label: friends of ED
Manufacturer: friends of ED
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 252
Publication Date: June 07, 2004
Publisher: friends of ED
Studio: friends of ED




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Product Description:
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 your essential guide to understanding the advantages you can bring to your web pages by implementing web standards and 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 standards is steadily increasing, many web developers and designers have yet to discover the real benefits of web standards and respect the need to adhere to them. The real art is in truly understanding the benefits and implementing the standards efficiently. As a simple example of its power, you can use CSS to lay out your pages instead of nesting tables—this can make file sizes smaller, allowing pages to load faster, ultimately increasing accessibility for all browsers, devices, and web users.

* Use XHTML elements correctly so that your markup is compact and more easily understood.

* Use CSS to style different elements of a web page.

* Lay out pages easily and effectively.

* Compare multiple methods of achieving the same results to make better design choices.

* Learn about advanced web design techniques and their important caveats.



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great book
A great handbook showcasing common CSS uses. Will definitely keep this by my side when developing.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A useful read for the web novice
This book was not exactly what I expected when I purchased it. I've been working with XHTML for 2 years professionally, but I still hadn't bothered to read up on web standards.

The book is well organized and goes over the basics of HTML elements (ol, ul, em, strong, p, etc...) and does a nice job explaining the benefits of using the most recent standards when selecting an appropriate tag.

Being that I have had experience coding, I'd recommend this book to those will little ... Read More



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Solid if not exhaustive or succinct
Web Standards Solutions is reasonably solid title that discusses the benefits and approaches of using web standards in the design of (X)HTML markup. CSS is also covered as a means to remove presentational elements from web page markup. Lists, tables, headings, hyperlinks, forms, quotations and layouts are all covered to a foundational level.

The information covered in the book is especially suited to new web site designers who are yet to understand these concepts. Web application developers ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent book!
This is an excellent book that all web designers should own. When I look at people's sites, I often validate them just out of curiosity, and it is so rare that I ever find a valid site. I always pay attention to validation, and this book just validates (for lack of a better term) my opinions on the importance of following web standards. This book is good for helping with workarounds for certain browsers (cough, IE) that don't support standards that most others do.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - XHTML & CSS - Start with this book!
With only a casual tinker in Dreamweaver split view under my belt starting out, I learned how to hand code XHTML and CSS with this book alone (well, and some web research here and there and CSS Mastery is an excellent follow up). It's written clearly and gives multiple solutions for each case, while explaining the advantages and disadvantages of each. I cannot recommend this book enough, as even after I finished it, it remains close by as an invaluable desk reference that I refer to here and there.




 



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