HTML & CSS: The Good Parts

by Ben Henick

Overview

HTML and CSS are the workhorses of web design, and using them together to build consistent, reliable web pages requires both skill and knowledge. The task is more difficult if you're relying on outdated, confusing, and unnecessary HTML hacks and workarounds. Author Ben Henick shows you how to avoid those traps by going beyond the standard tips, tricks, and techniques to connect the underlying theory and design of HTML and CSS to your everyday work habits.

With this practical book, you'll learn how to work with these tools far more effectively than is standard practice for most web developers. Whether you handcraft individual pages or build templates, HTML & CSS: The Good Parts will help you get the most out of these tools in all aspects of web page design-from layout to typography and to color.

• Structure HTML markup to maximize the power of CSS
• Implement complex multi-column layouts from scratch
• Improve site production values with advanced CSS techniques
• Support formal usability and accessibility requirements with tools built into HTML and CSS
• Avoid the most annoying browser and platform limitations

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780596157609
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/01/2010
Series:	Animal Guide
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ben Henick has been building Web sites since September 1995, when he took on his first Web project as an academic volunteer. He has worked in nearly every aspect of site design and development, from foundation HTML through finicky CSS to larger scale architecture and content management. He has written for A List Apart, the Web Standards Project, and most recently for Opera Software's Web Standards Curriculum.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Hypertext at the Core
• Chapter 2: Working with HTML Markup
• Chapter 3: CSS Overview
• Chapter 4: Developing a Healthy Relationship with Standards
• Chapter 5: Effective Style and Structure
• Chapter 6: Solving the Puzzle of CSS Layout
• Chapter 7: Working with Lists
• Chapter 8: Headings, Hyperlinks, Inline Elements, and Quotations
• Chapter 9: Colors and Backgrounds
• Chapter 10: (Data) Tables
• Chapter 11: Images and Multimedia
• Chapter 12: Web Typography
• Chapter 13: Clean and Accessible Forms
• Chapter 14: The Bad Parts
• URIs, Client-Server Architecture, and HTTP
• Glossary
• Colophon