HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pages

Rob Huddleston0470274360, 978-0-470-27436-1

Книга HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web… HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pagesКниги WEB Автор: Rob Huddleston Год издания: 2008 Формат: pdf Издат.:Wiley Publishing Страниц: 386 Размер: 26,7 ISBN: 978-0-470-27436-1 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:If you’ve ever been curious about any of the multitude of internet acronyms, the web technologies they represent, and how they can benefit you, this book is a great place to start. This book covers all the necessary topics to get up and running with HTML, XHTML, and CSS while offering readers a guide to modern, standards-based design. Key tasks covered in the book include setting up a Web page, reducing image resolution, creating radio buttons, adding a hit counter, adding an embedded sound, adding content from other sites such as integrating a blog and creating an RSS feed. Large topics are broken into smaller, more approachable sub-topics that are clearly explained on two pages eliminating the back and forth page flipping required in other references. Arranged so that skills build progressively throughout the book coupled with bold page headers it is simple to flip through and easily find any section or topic you are looking for. Understandable with straightforward terms that avoid intimidating and unexplained jargon, this is a book that will benefit complete novices and advanced users alike.While primarily focused on the technologies outlined in the title, this book goes on to provide tips on integrating with Google, Flickr, social bookmark sites and even creating and implementing RSS feeds. Rest assured, each of these technologies is explained with the benefits of each outlined. A serious resource that quickly and concisely gets to the point, this book helps you gain real skills that will have you online in short order. Best of all, you can be confident that you are doing so the right way.HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint™ for designing effective Web pages offers visual learners a solid reference that employs straight forward examples to teach you to create and design Web pages with impact. “Apply It” and “Extra” sidebars highlight useful tips and high-resolution screen shots clearly illustrate each task while succinct explanations walk you through the examples. The associated website contains all the needed code to learn HTML.Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you’ll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 150 key HTML, XHTML, and CSS techniques, including:* Creating a link to a page on the Web* Laying out pages using Cascading Style Sheets* Adding background images to page elements* Adding a table to a page* Making complex tables accessible* Creating a form* Replacing headers with images* Creating tabbed navigation* Submitting your site to search engines* Adding JavaScript® to a page* High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task* Succinct explanations walk you through step by step* Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules* “Apply It” and “Extra” sidebars highlight useful tips

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Table of contents :
HTML, XHTML, and CSS……Page 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS……Page 9
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK……Page 15
Introducing HTML……Page 17
Introducing XHTML 1.0……Page 19
Introducing Cascading Style Sheets……Page 21
Introducing JavaScript……Page 23
Understanding Creation Tools……Page 25
Understanding Web Browsers……Page 27
Understanding Web Servers……Page 29
Plan Your Web Site……Page 31
Create a Basic Web Page……Page 33
Save and Preview a Web Page……Page 35
Create Headings……Page 37
Create Paragraphs……Page 39
Add Line Breaks……Page 41
Add Horizontal Rules……Page 43
Add Comments to the Code……Page 45
Apply Logical Formatting……Page 47
Plan Your Navigation……Page 49
Structure Web Site Files……Page 51
Understanding File Paths……Page 52
Create a Link to a Page in Your Site……Page 53
Create a Link to a Page on the Web……Page 55
Create a Link Within a Page……Page 57
Create a Link to an E-mail Address……Page 59
Set Tooltips for Links……Page 61
Test Your Links……Page 63
Understanding Image File Formats……Page 65
Add an Image to Your Page……Page 67
Specify Alternate Text for an Image……Page 69
Specify the Size of an Image……Page 71
Using Images as Links……Page 73
Add a Favorites Icon……Page 75
Add a Table to Your Page……Page 77
Add Headers to Your Table……Page 79
Create Cells That Span Rows or Columns……Page 81
Set the Border of the Table……Page 83
Set the Width of a Table……Page 84
Add Space Within a Table……Page 85
Define Sections of a Table……Page 87
Define Columns……Page 89
Add a Bulleted List to Your Page……Page 91
Add a Numbered List to Your Page……Page 93
Add a Definition List to Your Page……Page 95
Nest a List Within a List……Page 97
Get Started with Cascading Style Sheets……Page 99
Understanding Units of Measurement……Page 101
Set the Size of Text on a Page……Page 103
Set the Font on a Page……Page 105
Using Color on the Web……Page 107
Change the Color of Text on a Page……Page 109
Adjust the Height of Lines……Page 111
Make Text Bold or Italic……Page 113
Indent and Align Text……Page 115
Using Additional Font Properties……Page 117
Using the Font Shorthand Property……Page 119
Add Background Colors to Elements on a Page……Page 121
Add Background Images to Elements on a Page……Page 123
Control the Position of Background Images……Page 125
Using the Background Shorthand Property……Page 127
Add Padding to Elements on a Page……Page 129
Add Borders to Elements on a Page……Page 131
Add Margins to Elements on a Page……Page 133
Set the Width and Height of Elements……Page 135
Using CSS Shorthand Properties for the Box Model……Page 137
Style Links……Page 139
Style Tables……Page 141
Replace the Bullets on a List……Page 143
Control the Indentation of Lists……Page 145
Customize Cursors……Page 147
Apply Styles to More than One Element at a Time……Page 149
Using the Span Element……Page 151
Structure the Page with the Div Element……Page 153
Control Styles with Classes……Page 155
Style Specific Elements with IDs……Page 157
Apply Styles with Contextual Selectors……Page 159
Apply Other Selectors……Page 161
Create Effects with Pseudo-Elements……Page 163
Apply Additional Styles through Pseudo-Classes……Page 165
Specify Rules as Important……Page 166
Create an External Style Sheet……Page 167
Override Styles Using the Cascade……Page 169
Lay Out Your Page Using Floated Elements……Page 171
Clear Floats……Page 173
Lay Out Your Page Using Absolute Positioning……Page 175
Lay Out Your Page Using Relative Positioning……Page 177
Lay Out Your Page Using Fixed Positioning……Page 179
Work with Element Overflow……Page 181
Set Minimum and Maximum Widths and Heights……Page 183
Apply the Display Property……Page 185
Replace a Header with an Image……Page 187
Create Tabbed Navigation……Page 189
Create “You Are Here” Navigation……Page 193
Create a Print Style Sheet……Page 195
Understanding Common CSS Hacks……Page 197
Create a Form……Page 199
Add a Text Box……Page 201
Add Labels……Page 203
Add Check Boxes and Radio Buttons……Page 205
Build a Drop-Down List……Page 207
Group Drop-Down Options……Page 209
Insert a Text Area……Page 211
Add a Hidden Field……Page 213
Add a Password Field……Page 215
Add a File Upload Field……Page 217
Add a Submit Button……Page 219
Make an Image into a Button……Page 221
Create a Button with the Button Element……Page 223
Group Related Form Elements……Page 225
Control the Tab Order……Page 227
Process Form Data……Page 229
Add JavaScript to Your Page……Page 231
Add Event Handlers……Page 233
Validate a Form……Page 235
Open a New Window……Page 239
Hide and Show Elements……Page 241
Swap Images……Page 243
Debug JavaScript……Page 245
Understanding Web Accessibility……Page 247
Add a Caption and Summary to a Table……Page 249
Using Additional Header Markup in Your Tables……Page 251
Make Complex Tables Accessible……Page 253
Add a Long Description to an Image……Page 255
Make Navigation Accessible……Page 257
Make Forms Accessible……Page 259
Test Accessibility……Page 261
Add Special Characters to Your Page……Page 263
Add an Address to a Page……Page 265
Using Quoted Text……Page 267
Using Abbreviations and Acronyms on a Page……Page 269
Display Code on a Page……Page 270
Denote Inserted and Deleted Text……Page 271
Understanding XML……Page 273
Understanding RSS……Page 275
Create an RSS Feed……Page 277
Embed Multimedia Content in Your RSS……Page 279
Create a Podcast……Page 283
Publish Your Podcast to iTunes……Page 285
Create a Blog……Page 287
Display an RSS Feed on Your Site……Page 291
Show Your Photos with Flickr……Page 293
Display a Google Map on Your Page……Page 297
Display a Google Calendar on Your Site……Page 299
Display Advertising on Your Page……Page 301
Add Social Bookmarks……Page 303
Add Google Search to Your Site……Page 305
Understanding Search Engine Optimization……Page 307
Add Meta Elements……Page 309
Using Google’s Web Master Tools……Page 311
Create a Sitemap……Page 313
Prevent Pages from Being Listed on Search Engines……Page 315
Avoid Common HTML Mistakes……Page 317
Avoid Common XHTML Mistakes……Page 318
Avoid Common CSS Mistakes……Page 319
Avoid Common Design Mistakes……Page 321
Clean Up HTML and XHTML with HTML Tidy……Page 323
Validate XHTML……Page 325
Validate CSS……Page 327
Find a Web Host……Page 329
Buy a Domain Name……Page 331
Publish Your Web Site Using Windows FTP……Page 333
Publish Your Web Site Using SmartFTP……Page 335
HTML and XHTML Tag Reference……Page 337
XHTML Frameset……Page 351
Event Handlers……Page 352
Deprecated Tags……Page 353
Named Colors……Page 355
Character Entities……Page 356
XHTML 1.1……Page 361
Appendix B: CSS Reference……Page 363
Appendix C: Web Accessibility Guideline Reference……Page 369
INDEX……Page 373