Chapter 5. Modern Markup
Part I outlined the creative and business problems engendered by old-school web design methods, sketched the benefits of designing with standards, and painted a cheerful picture of standards-powered advances in the medium. The rest of this book will move from the general to the particular, and the best way to start is by taking a second look at the fundamentals of web markup.
Many designers and developers will balk at the thought. Surely those of us who’ve spent more than a few weeks designing professional sites know all there is to know about dumb old HTML. Shouldn’t we spend our limited free time learning newer, more powerful languages? For instance, isn’t it more important to study server-side technologies like PHP, ...
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