ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies®

Chapter 12. Web Standards, Page Layout, and Usability

In This Chapter

• Creating standards-based pages

• Using CSS to create column layouts

• Trimming page bloat

• Making pages accessible and easy to use

It's getting harder to create ugly, non-standard, and invalid HTML. The latest authoring tools work like a word processor to generate decent HTML markup on their own. Their syntax checkers flag problems with the parts that humans write. However, page creation is more than assembling a series of HTML tags. Putting a Web page together also involves some human engineering.

That's where people — not machines — choose the best technologies for the intended use. By creating the most appealing layout and techniques, you make the pages easy for the target audience to use.

This chapter looks at adherence to technology standards, increasing usability, and some elements of page design that affect the quality of your ASP.NET pages.