Book description
Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist
Jeffrey Zeldman has updated his classic, industry-shaking
guidebook. This new edition--now in full color--covers improvements
in best practices and advances in the world of browsers since the
first edition introduced the world to standards-based design.
Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most
complex information easy to digest, it remains an essential guide
to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less
to design and maintain.
Readers will learn from Jeffrey's insights as he demonstrates how
web standards are driving search engine friendliness
("findability") and the Web 2.0 applications that have
reinvigorated the medium and the online marketplace. Readers will
discover new techniques to make CSS layouts work better across
multiple browsers and ways to make web content more
accessible.
Designing with Web Standards is an AIGA Design Press book,
published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with
AIGA.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About Jeffrey Zeldman (author)
- Ethan Marcotte (technical editor, second edition)
- J. David Eisenberg (technical editor, first edition)
- Eric Meyer (technical editor, first edition)
- Thank You
- Tell Us What You Think
- Introduction
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I. Houston, We Have a Problem
- Before You Begin
- 1. 99.9% of Websites Are Still Obsolete
- 2. Designing and Building with Standards
- 3. The Trouble with Standards
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4. Findability, Syndication, Blogs, Podcasts, the Long Tail, Ajax (and Other Reasons Standards Are Winning)
- The Universal Language (XML)
- XML Applications and Your Site
- Compatible by Nature
- A New Era of Cooperation
- Web Standards and Authoring Tools
- The Emergence of CSS Layout
- Faddishness...with a Purpose
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II. Designing and Building
- 5. Modern Markup
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6. XHTML: Restructuring the Web
- Converting to XHTML: Simple Rules, Easy Guidelines
- Executive Summary: The Rules of XHTML
- Visual Elements and Structure
- 7. Tighter, Firmer Pages Guaranteed: Structure and Meta-Structure in Strict and Hybrid Markup
- 8. XHTML by Example: A Hybrid Layout (Part I)
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9. CSS Basics
- CSS Overview
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Anatomy of Styles
- Selectors, Declarations, Properties, and Values
- Multiple Declarations
- Whitespace and Case Insensitivity
- Alternative and Generic Values
- Grouped Selectors
- Inheritance and Its Discontents
- Descendant Selectors
- id Selectors and Descendant Selectors
- Class Selectors
- Combining Selectors to Create Sophisticated Design Effects
- External, Embedded, and Inline Styles
- The “Best-Case Scenario” Design Method
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10. CSS in Action: A Hybrid Layout (Part II)
- Preparing Images
- Establishing Basic Parameters
- Navigation Elements: First Pass
- Navigation Bar CSS: First Try at Second Pass
- Navigation Bar CSS: Final Pass
- Final Steps: External Styles and the “You Are Here” Effect
- 11. Working with Browsers Part I: DOCTYPE Switching and Standards Mode
- 12. Working with Browsers Part II: Box Models, Bugs, and Workarounds
- 13. Working with Browsers Part III: Typography
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14. Accessibility Basics
- WCAG 1 and 2
- Access by the Books
- Widespread Confusion
- The Law and the Layout
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Accessibility Myths Debunked
- Myth: Accessibility Forces You to Create Two Versions of Your Site
- Myth: A Text-Only Version Satisfies the Requirement for Equal or Equivalent Access
- Myth: Accessibility Costs Too Much
- Myth: Accessibility Forces You to Create Primitive, Low-End Designs
- Myth: According to Section 508, Sites Must Look the Same in All Browsers and User Agents
- Myth: Accessibility Is “Just for Disabled People”
- Myth: Dreamweaver MX/Cynthia Says/LIFT/Insert Tool Name Here Solves All Compliance Problems
- Myth: Designers Can Freely Ignore Accessibility Laws if Their Clients Tell Them To
- Accessibility Tips, Element by Element
- Tools of the Trade
- Loving Cynthia
- Planning for Access: How You Benefit
- 15. Working with DOM-Based Scripts
- 16. A CSS Redesign
Product information
- Title: Designing With Web Standards, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2006
- Publisher(s): New Riders
- ISBN: 9780321385550
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