Chapter 12. Creating Web Layouts
In This Chapter
Discovering the benefits of standards-compliant, accessible layouts
Understanding the difference between layouts using tables and layers
Finding out how to create a simple layers-only layout
Creating tables-based layouts for HTML e-mails
Finding and using free online layers-based layouts
In this chapter, you start by finding out about the benefits of creating standards-compliant, accessible layouts and get a primer on how to successfully work with layers. You discover how to create a simple CSS-styled, layers-based layout on your own, and how to use the old-school HTML tables-based layout in case any of your clients ask you to create an HTML e-mail or HTML newsletter for them. At the end of the chapter, you find a helpful list of resources for finding excellent, free CSS layers-based layouts on the Web.
Creating Standards-Compliant, Accessible Layouts
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3.org) is an international vendor-neutral organization that defines standards on the Web to improve Web accessibility and hardware/software interoperability. By following the recommendations of the W3C, designers, programmers, and Web developers can design and build interoperable Web sites that look great, are coded semantically, and function efficiently. Thus, to build a standards-compliant Web site means to use the recommended standards and guidelines put forth by the W3C.
What, then, is semantic HTML? Simply put, it is the use of HTML tags and coding that match ...
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