Designing With Web Standards

Chapter Eight. XHTML by Example: A Hybrid Layout (Part I)

This chapter and the two that follow it form a tight little unit. In this chapter, we'll roll up our sleeves and apply what we've learned about XHTML thus far to mark up a real-world design project. The markup we create will be partly structural, partly transitional, and fully standards-compliant. In Chapter 9, “CSS Basics,” we'll cover Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) basics for beginning and intermediate users. Finally, in Chapter 10, “CSS in Action: A Hybrid Layout (Part II), we'll learn still more about CSS while using it to complete our project. This “teaching by doing” business is not unlike learning to swim by being tossed into deep, cold water, although we prefer to think of it as picking ...