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HTML & CSS: The Good Parts
The Good Parts
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- Table of Contents
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Preface
- + Chapter 1. Hypertext at the Core
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Chapter 2. Working with HTML Markup
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Chapter 3. CSS Overview
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Chapter 4. Developing a Healthy Relationship with Standards
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Chapter 5. Effective Style and Structure
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Chapter 6. Solving the Puzzle of CSS Layout
- The CSS Box Model and Element Size Control
- Quirks Mode and Strict Mode
- + auto Values
- + Margins, Borders, and Padding
- + Element Flow
- + Using the display Property to Change an Element’s Flow
- + The float and clear Properties
- + Implementing Multicolumn Layouts
- + CSS Positioning Properties
- + The visibility and z-index Properties
- + Obtaining Precise Navigation Source Order and Layout
- + Layout Types and Canvas Grids
- + Chapter 7. Working with Lists
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Chapter 8. Headings, Hyperlinks, Inline Elements, and Quotations
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Chapter 9. Colors and Backgrounds
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Chapter 10. (Data) Tables
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Chapter 11. Images and Multimedia
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Chapter 12. Web Typography
- + A Brief History of Letterforms
- A Visual Glossary of Typography
- Aliasing and Anti-Aliasing
- + Type Styles, Readability, and Legibility
- + Sizing Type
- + Working with Typefaces and Fonts
- + Character Encoding in Brief
- + Creating Balanced Type Treatments
- + Typographical Miscellany in CSS
- The Practice of Good Web Typography
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Chapter 13. Clean and Accessible Forms
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Chapter 14. The Bad Parts
- + Appendix. URIs, Client-Server Architecture, and HTTP
- Glossary
- Index
HTML and CSS are the workhorses of web design, and using them together to build consistent, reliable web pages requires both skill and knowledge. The task is more difficult if you're relying on outdated, confusing, and unnecessary HTML hacks and workarounds. Author Ben Henick shows you how to avoid those traps by going beyond the standard tips, tricks, and techniques to connect the underlying theory and design of HTML and CSS to your everyday work habits.
With this practical book, you'll learn how to work with these tools far more effectively than is standard practice for most web developers. Whether you handcraft individual pages or build templates, HTML & CSS: The Good Parts will help you get the most out of these tools in all aspects of web page design-from layout to typography and to color.
Structure HTML markup to maximize the power of CSS
Implement complex multi-column layouts from scratch
Improve site production values with advanced CSS techniques
Support formal usability and accessibility requirements with tools built into HTML and CSS
Avoid the most annoying browser and platform limitations
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Computers > Web > Page Design
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Publication year : 2010
License: All rights reserved ©
Times read: 1,209
