作者：Craig Grannell
出版日期：November 12, 2007
出版社：Friends of Ed
页数：600
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1590599071 ISBN-13: 978-1590599075
文件格式：PDF


Product Description
The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design is a special book—it will tell you all you needto know to design great web sites that are standards compliant, usable,and look great, but not overwhelm you with waffle, theory, and obscuredetails. It is designed to be invaluable to you, whatever stage you areat in your career, with a mixture of practical tutorials and referencematerial—beginners will quickly pick up the basics, while moreexperienced web designers and developers will keep returning to thebook again and again to recap on techniques they maybe haven’t used fora while, or look up properties, attributes and other details. It isdestined to become a close friend, adopting a permanent place on yourdesk. It starts off by giving a brief introduction to the internet, andthe broad area of web design, before diving straight in to HTML and CSSbasics, reusing code, other best practices. It then focuses on all themost important areas of a successful web site—typography, images,navigation, tables, layouts, forms and feedback (including ready madePHP scripts for you to use,) and browser quirks, hacks and bugs. Thebook is completely up-to-date, covering support of the newest standardsin all the latest browsers, including IE 7 and Firefox 2. The lastchapter of the book provides several case studies for you to dissectand learn from, including all the most popular web site archetypes—ablog, a store front, a corporate home page, and an online gallery. Thenthe book is rounded off with several detailed reference appendicescovering CSS, HTML, Color references, entities, and more, meaning thatany details you need to look up are close at hand.
This book will teach you everything you need to know to create professional CSS and HTML web sitesUp to date &emdash; covering support of the newest standards in all the latest browsers, including IE 7 and Firefox 2Includes practical real world tutorials, essential reference sections, and case studies.What you’ll learnThe basics of HTML and CSS web designHow to implement effective layouts, tables, images, navigation, forms and typography on web sitesHow to deal with cross browser issues, including quirks, bugs, andhacks on IE 7 (and older versions,) Firefox, Safari, Opera, and allother major browsers.How to make sure your sites are both usable and accessibleHow to implement several different styles of web front-end, throughseveral complete case studies, including a blog, a store front, and anonline galleryDetailed References are also provided so you don’t need to learn every little detail of CSS and HTMLAbout the Author
Craig was trained in the fine arts, but later became immersed indigital media, showing videos and multimedia work at leadinginternational media festivals. The web caught his attention in 1995,and he now divides his time between creating websites, writing forvarious web and design-related magazines, and working on his eclecticVeer Musikal Unit audio project. Information, downloads, music, moviesand dancing trees can be found at his website, Snub Communications(www.snubcommunications.com). Craig is a co-author of the originalFoundation Dreamweaver MX from friends of ED, and also Dreamweaver MXDesign Projects, from glasshaus.