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Author(s): Jennifer Niederst
ISBN(s): 9780596001964, 0596001967
Edition: 2nd
File Details: PDF, 13.04 MB
Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0596001967

ISBN 13: 9780596001964 

Author: Jennifer Niederst

Web Design in a Nutshell,2nd Edition contains the nitty-gritty on everything you need to know to design web pages. It’s the good stuff, without the fluff, written and organized so that answers can be found quickly. This completely revised and expanded 2nd edition is chock-full of information about the wide range of front-end technologies and techniques from which web designers and authors must draw.

Web Design in a Nutshell,2nd Edition is an excellent reference for HTML 4.01 tags (including tables, frames, forms, color, and cascading style sheets) with special attention given to browser support, platform idiosyncrasies, and standards. You’ll also find lots of updated information on using graphics, multimedia, audio and video, and advanced technologies such Dynamic HTML, Javascript, and XML, as well as new chapters on XHTML, WML, and SMIL. This book is an indispensable tool for web designers and authors of all levels.

Web Design in a Nutshell,2nd Edition includes:

  • Discussions of the web environment including monitors and browsers, printing from the Web, accessibility, and internationalization
  • A complete reference to HTML and Server Side Includes, including up-to-date browser support (Netscape 6, IE 6.0, and Opera 5) for every tag and attribute
  • Updated chapters on creating GIF, animated GIF, JPEG, and PNG graphics, including designing with the Web Palette
  • Information on multimedia and interactivity, including audio, video, Flash 5 and Shockwave, and a new chapter on SMIL
  • A revised tutorial and reference on Cascading Style Sheets
  • Appendixes detailing HTML tags, attributes, deprecated tags, proprietary tags, CSS compatibility and support, and character entities

Table of contents:

Designing for the Web

  1. Designing for a Variety of Browsers

  2. Browser Usage Statistics

  3. Design Strategies

  4. Knowing Your Audience

  5. The Importance of Standards

  6. Designing for a Variety of Displays

  7. Fixed Versus Flexible Web Page Design

  8. Designing Above the Fold

  9. Monitor Color Issues

  10. Alternative Displays

  11. Web Design Principles for Print Designers

  12. Typography on the Web

  13. Color on the Web

  14. Graphics on the Web

Server-Side Basics

  1. A Beginner’s Guide to the Server

  2. Unix Directory Structures

  3. File Naming Conventions

  4. File MIME Types

Printing from the Web

  1. Printing from the Web

  2. Printer-Friendly HTML Pages

  3. Cascading Style Sheets for Printouts

  4. Portable Document Format (PDF)

  5. Flash Printing

Accessibility & Internationalization

  1. Accessibility

  2. Accessibility in Web Technologies

  3. Accessibility in Tools

  4. Internationalization

HTML and Authoring

  1. HTML 4.01 Language Features

  2. Style Sheets Language Features

  3. Authoring

  4. HTML Overview

  5. HTML Tags

  6. Information Browsers Ignore

  7. Document Structure

  8. Tips on Good HTML Style

  9. HTML Tools

  10. HTML Resources in This Book

Structuring Content

  1. Structural HTML Tags

  2. Setting Up an HTML Document

  3. Global Settings with the Tag

  4. Using Tags

Text and Layout

  1. Formatting Text

  2. Working with HTML Text

  3. Inline Type Styles

  4. The Tag

ListsText Layout Techniques with HTMLCharacter Entity References

Links and Navigation

  1. Creating Links

  2. Simple Hypertext Links

  3. Linking Within a Document

  4. Affecting the Appearance of Links

  5. Targeting Windows

  6. Imagemaps

  7. Non-Web Links and Protocols

  8. Linking Documents with

Images and Media

  1. Adding Images and Other Page Elements

  2. Image Basics

  3. The Tag and Its Attributes

  4. Horizontal Rules

  5. Embedded Media Files

  6. Java Applets

Tables

  1. Introduction to Tables

  2. Basic Table Structure

  3. Affecting Table Appearance

  4. Table Troubleshooting

  5. Tips and Tricks

  6. Standard Table Templates

  7. Multipart Images in Tables

Frames

  1. Introduction to Frames

  2. Basic Frameset Structure

  3. Frame Function and Appearance

  4. Targeting Frames

  5. Inline Floating Frames

  6. Frame Design Tips and Tricks

Forms and Interactivity

  1. Introduction to Forms

  2. Form Elements

  3. New Form Attributes in HTML 4.01

  4. Affecting the Appearance of Forms

  5. Demystifying CGI

Color and Style

  1. Specifying Color in HTML

  2. Specifying Colors by Name

  3. Cascading Style Sheets

  4. How Style Sheets Work

  5. Selectors

  6. Specifying Values

  7. Properties

  8. Positioning with Style Sheets

  9. What’s New in CSS2

  10. Style Sheet Tips and Tricks

Browser Support and Server-Side Includes

  1. Browser Support Charts

  2. Server Side Includes

  3. SSI and the Server

  4. Using Environment Variables

  5. SSI Commands

  6. Include Variables

  7. Time Formats for SSI Output

Graphics Formats

  1. Graphics

  2. GIF Format

  3. Tools Overview

  4. Interlacing

  5. Transparency

  6. Minimizing GIF File Sizes

  7. JPEG Format

  8. When to Use JPEGs

  9. Progressive JPEGs

  10. Creating JPEGs

  11. PNG Format

  12. When to Use PNGs

  13. Platform/Browser Support

  14. 8-Bit Palette, Grayscale, and Truecolor

  15. PNG Compression

  16. Creating PNG Files

  17. PNG Optimization Strategies

Web-Safe Colors and Optimization

  1. Designing Graphics with the Web Palette

  2. Designing with Web-Safe Colors

  3. Converting to the Web Palette

  4. Web Palette Strategies

Animated GIFs

  1. Animated GIFs

  2. Using Animated GIFs

  3. Tools

  4. Creating Animated GIFs

  5. Optimizing Animated GIFs

Multimedia

  1. Multimedia and Interactivity

  2. Audio on the Web

  3. Using Existing Audio

  4. Streaming Audio

  5. Web Audio Formats

  6. Choosing an Audio Format

  7. Video on the Web

  8. Compression

  9. Video File Formats

  10. Which Format to Choose

Flash and Shockwave

  1. Flash and Shockwave

  2. Using Flash on Web Pages

  3. Flash Power Tools

  4. Creating Flash Movies

  5. Adding Flash to a Web Page

  6. Integrating Flash with Other Technologies

  7. Adding Shockwave Movies to a Web Page

  8. Director Online Resources

SMIL

  1. Introduction to SMIL

  2. How SMIL Works

  3. SMIL Authoring Tools

Advanced Technologies

  1. Introduction to JavaScript

  2. JavaScript Basics

  3. Sample Scripts

  4. Handling Multiple Browsers

  5. Introduction to DHTML

  6. Using DHTML

  7. How DHTML Works

  8. The Document Object Model

  9. Creating Layers

  10. DHTML Examples

  11. Browser Detection

  12. DHTML Tools

XML and XHTML

  1. Introduction to XML

  2. Background

  3. XML Document Syntax

  4. Document Type Definition (DTD)

  5. Examples of XML Technology

  6. XHTML

  7. Creating XHTML 1.0 Documents

  8. XHTML Document Declarations

  9. Well-Formed XHTML

  10. Try It Out

WAP and WML

  1. WAP and WML

  2. About WAP

  3. Creating WAP Applications

  4. Introduction to WML

  5. WML Elements and Attributes

Appendices

  1. HTML Elements

  2. List of Attributes

  3. Deprecated Tags

  4. Proprietary Tags

  5. CSS Support Chart

  6. Character Entities

  7. Glossary

  8. Index

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