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Web Design in a Nutshell, Third Edition A Desktop Quick Reference

By Jennifer Niederst Robbins
February 2006
Pages: 826
Series: In a Nutshell
ISBN 10: 0-596-00987-9 | ISBN 13: 9780596009878
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)

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Our popular reference, Web Design in a Nutshell, has been completely rewritten and expanded to reflect the state of the art in web standards. In addition to being an authoritative reference for (X)HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, this book also provides an overview of the unique requirements of designing for the Web and gets to the nitty gritty of JavaScript and DOM Scripting, web graphics optimization, and multimedia production. It is an indispensable tool for web designers and developers of all levels.
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Are you still designing web sites like it's 1999? If so, you're in for a surprise. Since the last edition of this book appeared five years ago, there has been a major climate change with regard to web standards. Designers are no longer using (X)HTML as a design tool, but as a means of defining the meaning and structure of content. Cascading Style Sheets are no longer just something interesting to tinker with, but rather a reliable method for handling all matters of presentation, from fonts and colors to the layout of the entire page. In fact, following the standards is now a mandate of professional web design.

Our popular reference, Web Design in a Nutshell, is one of the first books to capture this new web landscape with an edition that's been completely rewritten and expanded to reflect the state of the art. In addition to being an authoritative reference for (X)HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, this book also provides an overview of the unique requirements of designing for the Web and gets to the nitty-gritty of JavaScript and DOM Scripting, web graphics optimization, and multimedia production. It is an indispensable tool for web designers and developers of all levels.

The third edition covers these contemporary web design topics:

Structural layer: HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 (9 chapters), including an alphabetical reference of all elements, attributes and character entities
Presentation layer: Ten all-new chapters on Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2.1, including an alphabetical reference of all properties and values.
Behavior layer: JavaScript and scripting with the Document Object Model (DOM)
Web environment: New web standards, browsers, display devices, accessibility, and internationalization
Web graphics optimization: Producing lean and mean GIF, JPEG, PNG, and animated GIFs
Multimedia: Web audio, video, Flash, and PDF

Organized so that readers can find answers quickly, Web Design in a Nutshell, Third Edition helps experienced designers come up to speed quickly on standards-based web design, and serves as a quick reference for those already familiar with the new standards and technology.

There are many books for web designers, but none that address such a wide variety of topics. Find out why nearly half a million buyers have made this the most popular web design book available.

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Newbe Review, January 26 2007

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Very informative book.
This is definately not for someone who has never read anything about html at all. Being someone who has read and applied html for 2 years now, I find this book to be an excellent resource of information.

Great for intermediate to advanced web designers!

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"Lead author Jennifer Niederst Robbins, author of one of our recommended titles 'Learning Web Design', has done an extensive re-work to deliver a book that is concise, packed with current information but which provides more than just a dull listing of standards and references. The book covers a wide range of technologies, from the basics of HTML, XHTML and XML, to extensive coverage of presentation with CSS (including CSS 2.1), JavaScript and the Document Object Model (DOM), which leads naturally to quick intro to Ajax, Web graphics (GIF, JPG, PNG etc) and a whole section on media (audio, video, Flash and printing). In terms of scope there's pretty much everything needed to deliver highly compliant, good looking web sites. Any more and you'd be looking at PHP, ASP, JSP and related technologies for creating data-driven web applications. "
-- TechBookReport

"All of that said, Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference gains an 8 out of 10 on the KnowProSE scale. It's a desktop reference, it's solid and it is chock full of information which I'm glad I don't have to memorize or hunt and peck through the World Wide Web of EverChanging mystery...Chock full of information and written with the future in mind, Web Design In A Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, 3rd Edition lives up to it's name for beginners and intermediates, and even experts. If you're involved in serious web development and sometimes have to move out of your sphere, this book is good to have handy."
-- Taran Rampersad, KnowProSE.com

"The 816-page Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, 3rd Edition isn't exactly nutshell-sized, but it covers everything you want to know to create and troubleshoot web site code."
-- Victor Marks, Mac News Now

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"Chock full of information and written with the future in mind, Web Design In A Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, 3rd Edition lives up to it's name for beginners and intermediates, and even experts."
--Taran Rampersad, KnowProSE.com

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