Web design in a nutshell : [a desktop quick reference] / Jennifer Niederst Robbins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niederst Robbins, Jennifer.

Series:

In a nutshell (O'Reilly & Associates)

In a nutshell

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web site development.

Web sites--Design--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (828 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Are you still designing web sites like it's 1999? If so, you're in for a surprise. Since the last edition of this book appeared five years ago, there has been a major climate change with regard to web standards. Designers are no longer using (X)HTML as a design tool, but as a means of defining the meaning and structure of content. Cascading Style Sheets are no longer just something interesting to tinker with, but rather a reliable method for handling all matters of presentation, from fonts and colors to the layout of the entire page. In fact, following the standards is now a mandate o

Contents:

Table of Contents; Foreword; Contributors; Tantek Çelik; Derek Featherstone; Aaron Gustafson; Todd Marks; Technical Reviewers; Lead Technical Editors; Tantek Çelik; Molly E. Holzschlag; Technical Reviewers; Preface; What's in the Book; Using Code Examples; Conventions Used in This Book; CSS Property Conventions; How to Contact Us; Safari® Enabled; Acknowledgments; I; Web Standards; What Are Standards?; The Standards Process; A Bumpy Beginning; Standards Support Today; The Advantages of Standards; Accessibility; Forward compatibility; Simpler and faster development; Faster download and display

Current Web StandardsStructural Layer; Presentation Layer; Behavioral Layer; Object models; Scripting; Other XML-Based Technologies; Standards-Driven Design; Separate Presentation from Structure; Use a DOCTYPE Declaration; Validate Your Markup; For Further Reading; Books; Web Resources; Designing for a Variety of Browsers; Browser History; Browser RollCall; Microsoft Internet Explorer 6; Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and 5.5 (Windows); Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (Macintosh); Netscape Navigator 7; Netscape Navigator 4; Firefox 1.0; Opera 8.5; Safari; America Online; Lynx

Gathering Usage StatisticsGlobal Browser Statistics; Server Log Analysis; Targeted Statistics Consulting; Learning from Browser Statistics; What You Can Learn; Standards support; Dominance of Windows and Internet Explorer; Persistence of old browser versions; Browser Usage Trends; Dealing with Browser Differences; Document Authoring; Style Sheet Tactics; Programming; Know Your Audience; Test!; Designing for a Variety of Displays; Designing for Unknown Monitor Resolutions; Standard Monitor Sizes and Resolutions; Live Space in the Browser Window; Fixed Versus Liquid Web Pages; Liquid Layouts

Advantages and disadvantages of fluid web pagesCreating flexible pages; Fixed-Width Design; Advantages and disadvantages of fixed-width design; Creating fixed pages; Left-aligned or centered?; Pop-up and resized windows; Combination Pages; Choosing a Page Size; The statistics; Current practice; Designing "Above the Fold"; Mobile Devices; Mobile Display Resolution; Mobile Browsers; Support for standards; Adapting web content for small screens; Designing for Mobile Devices; Write clean HTML; Use media types; Online Resources; Mobile standards; Mobile browsers; Mobile device manufacturers

The Web on TVA Beginner's Guide to the Server; Servers 101; Popular Server Software; Basic Server Functions; Web root directory; Index files; HTTP response header; Server-Side Programming; CGI (Common Gateway Interface); ASP (Active Server Pages); PHP; Java servlets and JSP; Unix Directory Structures; Absolute Pathnames; Relative Pathnames; Using relative pathnames in HTML; File Naming Conventions; Uploading Documents (FTP); The FTP Process; Setting Permissions; File (MIME) Types; Accessibility; Types of Disabilities; Overview of Assistive Technology; Input Devices; Output Devices

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781449379094

1449379095

9780596510121

0596510128

OCLC:

70161311