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Head First Web Design

Errata for Head First Web Design

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page i
cover

The cover (RepKover) is glued on upside down.

Also the upside-down cover says that details of the "Free online edition" has details on the last page, but there is no last page except Page 463 of the index.

 J. Carnie Littlefield  Sep 11, 2009 
Printed Front fly (front matter): The URL for obtaining a full-color copy of Chapter 5 is erroneous.

The page claims that a color version of Chapter 5 is available for download via the URL < www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfwd >. On 18 December 2019, I attempted to get that file,
but Firefox first reported a problem with the certificate, namely that it was only good for < oreilly.com >. I registered an exception, and was redirected to a GitLab page for < resources.oreilly.com >. The navigation on that page was cumbersome, and nonintuitive, but I eventually found a page with files for the "Head First Web Design" book. Unfortunately, there was no file for Chapter 5. (By the way, I reached the same listing of files from the product page for the book in < shop.oreilly.com >.)

Since the book hasn't been superseded by a newer edition, and since the material is still highly relevant, AND since the book is still available for purchase, please add the missing file
(presumably a PDF file) to list of resources for the book.

 Anonymous  Dec 18, 2019 
12
1st paragraph

The first sentence ("You need to [...]") ends with a question mark.

Probably an exclamation mark instead.

 Jerome Baum  Jul 19, 2009 
Printed Page 60
2nd paragraph

"What, built another XHTML page using our theme?" should read "What, build another XHTML page using our theme?"

 Anonymous  Feb 19, 2021 
PDF Page 74
Code Example

In order to get the effects of three separated columns, the following div tags have not be nested.

<div id="content-left">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Pellentesque quis nisl eget est viverra placerat. ...</p>
<div id="content-center">
<p>Nulla facilisi. Cras ac tellus fringilla tortor iaculis
rutrum. ...</p>

The code above places the paragraphs on one column.

 Anonymous  Jun 26, 2009 
Printed Page 104

The CSS in the book leaves out the white border around the main content. I've printed out both code examples, and can't find where the error is. Possibly my error.

 CTSMN  Nov 04, 2010 
Printed Page 116
category list in Exercise

'Avg. time online/week for leisure' is listed as a category in the Exercise, but the Exercise Solution on page 118 shows 'Music of Choice' instead.

 koster  Dec 09, 2009 
Printed Page 134
left-bottom

This is the page we built on page 20 to get started with the new RPM site.

page 20 is not correct. I think it changed to 128 or 129 page.

 hyungkyung hong  Oct 16, 2009 
Printed Page 173
code in the header div

the image specified is samplerate2.gif which is the wrong logo to use for this page, it should be samplerate.gif The samplerate2.gif doesn't come into play until page 189.

 Anonymous  May 30, 2010 
Printed Page 206
css code

#navigation li a:hover should be #navigation li a.hover

 DJPJ  Oct 16, 2009 
Printed Page 206
css code

Nevermind .....

DJPJ  Oct 22, 2009 
Printed Page 223
The last of code

I think the following code was missing, so it need to be added this page.

.page #subnav li a:hover {
background: #b2bf99;
}

 Hyung-kyung Hong  Oct 25, 2009 
Printed Page 278
2nd paragraph

You provided a couple of screen readers that users can use, one of which costs something like $850 USD! As a web designer we need to at least have some sort of feedback to let us design the page for the visually impaired. In just about every other section of the book we had pointers to free and useful tools to assist with the layout of the page.

Have you heard of the "Fangs" plugin for Firefox? It at least provides the text of what the reader would call out. It's free, and platform independent. While it's not useful for people with disabilities, it can be used as a web designer tool to see how the site would read. It might be worth putting a reference to that in the next version of the book.

http://www.standards-schmandards.com/fangs/help/index.php?l=en-US&v=1.0.4

 Berin Loritsch  Jul 21, 2009 
Printed Page 441
1st Graphic

The date 4/5/2010 is given. The arrow pointing to it says that the United States uses the date-month-year format, but we use the month-date-year format. The rest of the world uses date-month-year. The question is asked if the date reads May 5th, 2010 or April 4th, 2010. The question should be is it May 4th 2010, or April 5th 2010, as there's no possible way to get 5/5/2010 or 4/4/2010 out of 4/5/2010.

 Bruce Spang  Jun 24, 2009