Contents

About the Authors

About the Technical Reviewer

About the Cover Image Designer

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Web Design

A brief history of the Internet

Why create a website?

Audience requirements

Web design overview

Why WYSIWYG tools aren’t used in this book

Introducing HTML5

Introducing the concept of HTML tags and elements

Nesting tags

Web standards and HTML

Semantic markup

Introducing CSS

Separating content from design

The rules of CSS

Types of CSS selectors

Adding styles to a web page

The cascade

The CSS box model explained

Creating boilerplates

Working with website content

Information architecture and site maps

Basic web page structure and layout

Limitations of web design

Chapter 2: Web Page Essentials ...

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