Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, Special Edition

Book description

This is the updated and expanded Special Edition of Dan Cederholm's best-selling Web Standards Solutions. Web standards are the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers are using the same technology syntax. Utilizing web standards helps deliver content to the widest audience possible, while also ensuring future compatibility. These standards also allow content to be more compatible with different viewing devices, such as screen readers, mobile phones and handheld devices. HTML, XHTML, and CSS are all examples of Web Standards technologies.

This book is your essential guide to understanding the advantages you can bring to your web pages by implementing web standards and knowing precisely how to apply them.

Web standards such as XHTML and CSS are now fairly well-known technologies, and they will likely be familiar to you, the web designer-indeed, they are all around you on the Web. However, within web standards still lies a challenge-while the browser's support for web stan- dards is steadily increasing, many web developers and designers have yet to discover the real benefits of web standards or to respect the need to adhere to them. The real art is in truly understanding the benefits and implementing the standards efficiently.

Web Standards Solutions is broken down into 16 short chapters, each covering the theory and practice of different web standards concepts and showing multiple solutions to given problems for easy learning. You'll learn about creating multicolumn layouts, using image replacement techniques to your best advantage, making the best use of tables and lists, and much more. This highly modular approach allows you to rapidly digest, understand, and utilize the essentials of web standards.

Table of contents

  1. Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, Special Edition
    1. Copyright (1/3)
    2. Copyright (2/3)
    3. Copyright (3/3)
    4. FOREWORD
    5. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    6. ABOUT THE TECHNICAL REVIEWER
    7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    8. INTRODUCTION
      1. What are web standards?
      2. Why web standards?
      3. Why XHTML?
      4. Structured markup
      5. Origins of this book
      6. About the format
    9. Part I: GET DOWN WITH MARKUP
      1. Chapter 1: LISTS (1/3)
      2. Chapter 1: LISTS (2/3)
      3. Chapter 1: LISTS (3/3)
        1. Let's go shopping
        2. Quiz time
        3. Summary
        4. Extra credit
      4. Chapter 2: HEADINGS (1/3)
      5. Chapter 2: HEADINGS (2/3)
      6. Chapter 2: HEADINGS (3/3)
        1. What is the best way to mark up the title of a document?
        2. Summary
        3. Extra credit
        4. Simple styling
        5. Wrapping up
      7. Chapter 3: TABLES ARE EVIL? (1/4)
      8. Chapter 3: TABLES ARE EVIL? (2/4)
      9. Chapter 3: TABLES ARE EVIL? (3/4)
      10. Chapter 3: TABLES ARE EVIL? (4/4)
        1. Totally tabular
        2. A table that everyone can sit at
        3. Adding a summary
        4. The head(s) of the table
        5. Header and data relationships
        6. Using the abbr attribute
        7. , , and
        8. Are tables evil?
        9. Extra credit
        10. More table style examples
        11. Wrapping up
      11. Chapter 4: QUOTATIONS (1/3)
      12. Chapter 4: QUOTATIONS (2/3)
      13. Chapter 4: QUOTATIONS (3/3)
        1. Method A: Lacks meaning
        2. Method B: A class act?
        3. Method C: is best
        4. Using a screwdriver to hammer a nail
        5. Summary
        6. Extra credit
        7. Wrapping up
      14. Chapter 5: FORMS (1/5)
      15. Chapter 5: FORMS (2/5)
      16. Chapter 5: FORMS (3/5)
      17. Chapter 5: FORMS (4/5)
      18. Chapter 5: FORMS (5/5)
        1. What are our options when marking up a form?
        2. Summary
        3. Extra credit
        4. Wrapping up
      19. Chapter 6: , , AND OTHER PHRASE ELEMENTS (1/4)
      20. Chapter 6: , , AND OTHER PHRASE ELEMENTS (2/4)
      21. Chapter 6: , , AND OTHER PHRASE ELEMENTS (3/4)
      22. Chapter 6: , , AND OTHER PHRASE ELEMENTS (4/4)
        1. Presentational vs. structural
        2. Summary
        3. Extra credit
        4. Microformats
        5. Final phrase
      23. Chapter 7: ANCHORS (1/4)
      24. Chapter 7: ANCHORS (2/4)
      25. Chapter 7: ANCHORS (3/4)
      26. Chapter 7: ANCHORS (4/4)
        1. When pointing to a specific portion of a page, what is the best way to mark up an anchor?
        2. Summary
        3. Extra credit
        4. Anchors aweigh
      27. Chapter 8: MORE LISTS (1/3)
      28. Chapter 8: MORE LISTS (2/3)
      29. Chapter 8: MORE LISTS (3/3)
        1. What is the best way to mark up a numbered list of items?
        2. What is the best way to mark up a set of terms and descriptions?
        3. Summary
        4. Extra credit
        5. Wrapping up
      30. Chapter 9: MINIMIZING MARKUP (1/3)
      31. Chapter 9: MINIMIZING MARKUP (2/3)
      32. Chapter 9: MINIMIZING MARKUP (3/3)
        1. How can we minimize markup when building sites with web standards?
        2. Summary
        3. Extra credit
        4. Conclusion
    10. Part II: SIMPLEBITS OF STYLE
      1. Chapter 10: APPLYING CSS (1/4)
      2. Chapter 10: APPLYING CSS (2/4)
      3. Chapter 10: APPLYING CSS (3/4)
      4. Chapter 10: APPLYING CSS (4/4)
        1. How do I apply CSS to a document?
        2. Summary
        3. Extra credit
        4. Reset styles
        5. Conclusion
      5. Chapter 11: PRINT STYLES (1/3)
      6. Chapter 11: PRINT STYLES (2/3)
      7. Chapter 11: PRINT STYLES (3/3)
        1. How can we specify styles for print?
        2. Summary
      8. Chapter 12: CSS LAYOUTS (1/6)
      9. Chapter 12: CSS LAYOUTS (2/6)
      10. Chapter 12: CSS LAYOUTS (3/6)
      11. Chapter 12: CSS LAYOUTS (4/6)
      12. Chapter 12: CSS LAYOUTS (5/6)
      13. Chapter 12: CSS LAYOUTS (6/6)
        1. How can I use CSS to build a two-column layout?
        2. Summary
        3. Extra credit
        4. Wrapping up
      14. Chapter 13: STYLING TEXT (1/4)
      15. Chapter 13: STYLING TEXT (2/4)
      16. Chapter 13: STYLING TEXT (3/4)
      17. Chapter 13: STYLING TEXT (4/4)
        1. How can I make hypertext look cool?
        2. Summary
      18. Chapter 14: IMAGE REPLACEMENT (1/4)
      19. Chapter 14: IMAGE REPLACEMENT (2/4)
      20. Chapter 14: IMAGE REPLACEMENT (3/4)
      21. Chapter 14: IMAGE REPLACEMENT (4/4)
        1. How can I use CSS to replace text with images?
        2. Method A: Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR)
        3. Method B: Leahy/Langridge Image Replacement (LIR)
        4. Method C: The Phark Method
        5. Method D: sIFR
        6. Summary
        7. Extra credit
        8. Accessible image-tab rollovers
      22. Chapter 15: STYLING (1/3)
      23. Chapter 15: STYLING (2/3)
      24. Chapter 15: STYLING (3/3)
        1. Two and sometimes three columns
        2. "You are here"
        3. Summary
      25. Chapter 16: NEXT STEPS (1/2)
      26. Chapter 16: NEXT STEPS (2/2)
        1. Where do you go from here?
        2. Parting words
    11. Index (1/2)
    12. Index (2/2)

Product information

  • Title: Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, Special Edition
  • Author(s): Dan Cederholm
  • Release date: May 2009
  • Publisher(s): Apress
  • ISBN: 9781430219200