HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible FROM OUR EDITORS
The Barnes & Noble Review
Even in an era of slick web editors, youﾽll be far more successful if you thoroughly understand three core technologies: HTML, XHTML, and CSS. Sure, you neednﾽt hand-code everything. But when something goes wrong, or you need a better way to do the job, where do you turn? We recommend HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible, Third Edition.
The Web has matured to the point where reliable best practices exist for building sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS. Brian Pfaffenberger focuses on those: not just what works, but what works best. (Thatﾽs especially true in a closing section, which brings together high-level principles for developing structured, highly usable content thatﾽs easier to maintain and secure.)
Refer to this book for concise and accurate guidance on all the meat-and-potatoes tasks: text formatting, lists, images, links, special characters, tables, frames, forms, multimedia, CSS style rules, fonts, colors, backgrounds, element positioning, and much more. Also turn to it for up-to-date briefings on more advanced topics, from DHTML with CSS to XML, even database-driven web publishing. (All the examples are downloadable, from simple HTML text formatting to MySQL database queries.)
Thereﾽs a full section on testing, publishing, and maintaining sites: everything from validating documents to choosing service providers, even site publicity. (And, at the back, complete references to HTML tags, CSS conventions, and language codes.)
As comprehensive as ever, this Third Edition eliminates some failed technologies and adds some important new ones -- notably, blogging and content management tools. Youﾽll rely on it constantly, for years to come.
Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Whether hand-coded or created by a visual editor, static or dynamic, most Web pages rely on HTML. The more you know about this language and its companion technologies, XHTML and CSS, the more flexible, creative, and effective your Web site will be. This all-new reference covers the latest updates and dramatic improvements in all three. You'll learn which tools help you achieve specific results, how CSS enables consistent formatting, the most efficient way to code and use HTML, and so much more.
SYNOPSIS
If HTML, XHTML, and CSS can do it, you can do it too...
Whether hand-coded or created by a visual editor, static or dynamic, most Web pages rely on HTML. The more you know about this language and its companion technologies, XHTML and CSS, the more flexible, creative, and effective your Web site will be. This all-new reference covers the latest updates and dramatic improvements in all three. You’ll learn which tools help you achieve specific results, how CSS enables consistent formatting, the most efficient way to code and use HTML, and so much more.
Inside, you’ll find complete coverage of HTML, XHTML, and CSS Understand how the Web works and the importance of the W3C® in establishing and maintaining standards Review the basic parts of a Web page and how they interact Discover how to maintain consistency with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Create style rules, understand inheritance, and match elements by name, class, or identifier Learn to select the best Web technology for the objective you want to achieve Manage images, fonts, lists, links, tables, and special characters Explore tools and methodology for testing, publishing, and maintaining Web content Follow best practices in developing structured, accessible content and protecting it online Find out which peripheral Web technologies are most valuable in the long run Explore how server-side and client-side scripting can add capabilities to your content
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