Learning Web Design : A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niederst Robbins, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cascading style sheets.

Computer graphics.

HTML (Document markup language).

Web sites--Authoring programs.

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

Web sites.

Web sites--Authoring programs--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Computer graphics--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

HTML (Document markup language)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Local Subjects:

Cascading style sheets.

Computer graphics.

HTML (Document markup language).

Web sites--Authoring programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Other Title:

Learning Web Design : A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol : O'Reilly Media, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. Learning Web Design starts from the beginning -- defining how the Web and web pages work -- and builds from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you'll know how to get your pages up on the Web. This thoroughly revised edition teaches you how to build web sites according to modern design practices and professional standards. Learning Web Design explains: How to create a simple (X)HTML page,

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; O'Reilly Would Like to Hear From You; PART I. Getting Started; Chapter 1. Where Do I Start?; Am I Too Late?; Where Do I Start?; Information design; Interface design; Document production; Scripting and programming; Multimedia; Do I Need to Learn Java?; CSS (Cascading Style Sheets); JavaScript/DOM scripting; Server-side programming; XML; Java; What Do I Need to Buy?; Equipment; Software; What You've Learned; Test Yourself; Chapter 2. How the WebWorks; The Internet Versus the Web; Serving Up Your Information; A Word About Browsers; Web Page Addresses (URLs)

The parts of a URLDefault files; The Anatomy of a Web Page; HTML documents; A quick introduction to HTML; But where are the pictures?; Putting It All Together; Test Yourself; Chapter 3. The Nature of Web Design; Browser Versions; Coping with various browser versions; Alternative Browsing Environments; Users with disabilities; The mobile Web; Dealing with diversity; For further reading; User Preferences; Coping with user preferences; Different Platforms; Coping with different platforms; Connection Speed; Coping with unknown connection speed; Browser Window Size and Monitor Resolution

Go with the flowWeb page dimensions; Monitor Color; Coping with monitor color variation; Know Your Audience; Keeping the Big Picture in Mind; Test Yourself; PART II. HTML Markup for Structure; Chapter 4. Creating a Simple Page; (HTML Overview); A Web Page, Step by Step; Before We Begin, Launch a Text Editor; Creating a new document in Notepad (Windows users); Creating a new document in TextEdit (Macintosh users); Step 1: Start with Content; Learning from step 1; Step 2: Give the Document Structure; Introducing... the HTML element; Basic document structure; Step 3: Identify Text Elements

Introducing...semantic markupBlock and inline elements; Default styles; Step 4: Add an Image; Empty elements; Attributes; Step 5: Change the Look with a Style Sheet; When Good Pages Go Bad; Test Yourself; (X)HTML Review: Document Structure Elements; Chapter 5. Marking up Text; Building Blocks; Paragraphs; Headings; Long quotations; Preformatted text; Addresses; Lists; Unordered lists; Ordered lists; Definition lists; Adding Line Breaks; The Inline Text Element Round-up; Semantic inline elements; Presentational inline elements; Generic Elements (div and span); Divide it up with a div

Get inline with spanElement identifiers; Some Special Characters; Putting It All Together; Test Yourself; (X)HTML Review: Text Elements; Chapter 6. Adding Links; The href Attribute; Linking to Pages on the Web; Linking Within Your Own Site; Linking within a directory; Linking to a lower directory; Linking to a higher directory; Site root relative pathnames; It's the same for images; Linking to a specific point in a page; Linking to a fragment in another document; Targeting a New Browser Window; A new window with markup; Opening a window with JavaScript; Mail Links; Test Yourself

(X)HTML Review: The Anchor Element

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781306812092

1306812097

9781449333362

1449333362

9780596515959

0596515952

OCLC:

704352179