HTML Dog:The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS

HTML Dog:The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS

by PatrickGriffiths (Author)

Synopsis

For readers who want to design Web pages that load quickly, are easy to update, accessible to all, work on all browsers and can be quickly adapted to different media, this comprehensive guide represents the best way to go about it. By focusing on the ways the two languages--XHTML and CSS--complement each other, Web design pro Patrick Griffiths provides the fastest, most efficient way of accomplishing specific Web design tasks. With Web standards best practices at its heart, it outlines how to do things the right way from the outset, resulting in highly optimized web pages, in a quicker, easier, less painful way than users could hope for! Split into 10 easy-to-follow chapters such as Text, Images, Layout, Lists, and Forms, and coupled with handy quick-reference XHTML tag and CSS property appendixes, HTML Dog is the perfect guide and companion for anyone wanting to master these languages. Readers can also see the lessons in action with more than 70 online examples constructed especially for the book.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 354
Edition: 01
Publisher: New Riders
Published: 22 Nov 2006

ISBN 10: 0321311396
ISBN 13: 9780321311399
Book Overview: The most comprehensive guide to tackling XHTML and CSS as a combined solution for creating standards-compliant, highly optimized Web pages.

  • By teaching only standards-compliant XHTML and CSS coding, this guide ensures that users' Web sites will be made in the best possible way.
  • Combines straightforward explanations with hands-on sidebars, loads of reference tables, and heads-up warnings about browser incompatibilities and pitfalls.
  • Companion Web site includes example code and layouts.

Author Bio
Patrick Griffiths of London, England, has been an HTML specialist since 1999. He has worked in this specific capacity for, amongst others, Vodafone, educational establishments, and on various government projects. More recently, as a developer and instructor for his own company, Vivabit, he has given expert training to organizations such as Amnesty International, Legal and General, and London's Natural History Museum. As well as writing and maintaining the HMTL Dog Web site, he has contributed to resources such as A List Apart and the CSS Zen Garden, and is an active, well-known member of the web design community.