Chapter 5: Creating Web Layouts

In This Chapter

check.png Discovering the benefits of standards-compliant, accessible layouts

check.png Exploring mobile first and responsive web concepts

check.png Understanding the difference between layouts using tables and layers

check.png Finding out how to create a simple layers-only layout

check.png Creating tables-based layouts for HTML e-mails

check.png Finding and using free online layers-based layouts

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In this chapter, you start by finding out about the benefits of creating standards-compliant, accessible layouts and get a primer on how to work successfully with layers. Then you explore two new concepts to web design, namely responsive web and mobile first. Following that, 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 ...

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