Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition contains the nitty-gritty on everything you need to know to design web pages. It's the good stuff, without the fluff, written and organized so that answers can be found quickly. This completely revised and expanded 2nd edition is chock-full of information about the wide range of front-end technologies and techniques from which web designers and authors must draw.
Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition is an excellent reference for HTML 4.01 tags (including tables, frames, forms, color, and cascading style sheets) with special attention given to browser support, platform idiosyncrasies, and standards. You'll also find lots of updated information on using graphics, multimedia, audio and video, and advanced technologies such Dynamic HTML, Javascript, and XML, as well as new chapters on XHTML, WML, and SMIL. This book is an indispensable tool for web designers and authors of all levels.
Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition includes:
<ul>
<li>Discussions of the web environment including monitors and browsers, printing from the Web, accessibility, and internationalization</li>
<li>A complete reference to HTML and Server Side Includes, including up-to-date browser support (Netscape 6, IE 6.0, and Opera 5) for every tag and attribute</li>
<li>Updated chapters on creating GIF, animated GIF, JPEG, and PNG graphics, including designing with the Web Palette</li>
<li>Information on multimedia and interactivity, including audio, video, Flash 5 and Shockwave, and a new chapter on SMIL</li>
<li>A revised tutorial and reference on Cascading Style Sheets</li>
<li>Appendixes detailing HTML tags, attributes, deprecated tags, proprietary tags, CSS compatibility and support, and character entities</li>
</ul>

Web Design in a Nutshell

Computers & Technology

Niederst, Jennifer

Web Development & Design

O'Reilly & Associates

In this completely revised and updated pocket reference, Jennifer Niederst, the author of the best-selling Web Design in a Nutshell, delivers a complete guide to every HTML tag. As with O'Reilly's other pocket references, this handy book offers the bare essentials in a small, concise format that you can carry anywhere for quick reference. This guide will literally fit into your back pocket.Each entry in the book is devoted to the description of a single HTML tag, its standard usage, information on the tag's attributes, browser support (for Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Opera), and support for WebTV. Niederst puts the tags in context, indicating which ones are grouped together. She also offers bare-bones examples of how standard web page elements are constructed.All the tag-by-tag descriptions in this new edition have been brought up to date with the current HTML specification (4.01), and the book includes useful charts of character entities and decimal-to-hexadecimal conversions.The HTML Pocket Reference, second edition is an indispensable reference for any serious web designer, author, or programmer.

HTML Pocket Reference (2nd Edition)

O'Reilly Media

Designing for the Web: Getting Started in a New Medium gives you the basics you'll need to make the transition to Web page design. It is geared toward designers who need to hit the ground running.This book won't teach you how to design. Instead, its aim is to give you the information you need to adapt your skills to the Web. It's a quick-start guide to introduce you to the Web and the unique considerations of Web design. Although the book is aimed at designers, the techniques in this book are useful to anyone who wants to put graphics online.In this book you'll find:
<ul>
<li>A brief introduction to the Web</li>
<li>A step-by-step tutorial on putting together a Web page from scratch </li>
<li>Pointers on creating graphics that are optimized for the Web</li>
<li>Recommendations for reducing download times of images</li>
<li>Instructions for transparency and interlacing to Web graphics</li>
<li>A discussion of the impact of different browsers and platforms on your design</li>
<li>A listing and demonstration of the HTML tags used for design </li>
<li>Tips on using background images and colors in Web pages</li>
<li>Guidelines on navigational and orientation aids, and on conceptualizing your Web site as a whole</li>
</ul>
Designing for the Web is written by designers who were pioneers on the Web. Accumulating the basic facts and special tricks for effective Web design was a slow, gradual process. This is the book they wish they had when they were just starting out: one that would quickly teach them the lay of the land, so they could concentrate on what they enjoyed doing most -- designing!

Designing for the Web: Getting Started in a New Medium

Web Design in a Nutshell contains the nitty-gritty on everything you need toknow to design Web pages. It's the good stuff, without the fluff, written andorganized so that answers can be found quickly. Written by veteran Web designerJennifer Niederst, this book provides quick access to the wide range of front-endtechnologies and techniques from which Web designers and authors must draw.
It is an excellent reference for HTML 4.0 tags (including tables, frames, andCascading Style Sheets) with special attention given to browser support and platformidiosyncrasies. The HTML section is more than a reference work, though. It detailsstrange behavior in tables, for instance, and gives ideas and workarounds for usingtables and frames on your site. Web Design in a Nutshell also coversmultimedia and interactivity, audio and video, and emerging technologies like DynamicHTML, XML, embedded fonts, and internationalization.
The book includes:
<ul>
<li>Discussions of the Web environment, monitors, and browsers</li>
<li>A complete reference to HTML and Server Side Includes, including browsersupport for every tag and attribute</li>
<li>Chapters on creating GIF, JPEG and PNG graphics, including designing with theWeb Palette</li>
<li>Information on multimedia and interactivity, including audio, video, Flash,Shockwave, and JavaScript</li>
<li>Detailed tutorial and reference on Cascading Style Sheets, including anappendix of browser compatibility information</li>
<li>Appendices detailing HTML tags, attributes, deprecated tags, proprietary tags,and CSS compatibility</li>
</ul>

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Web Design in a Nutshell

HTML Pocket Reference (2nd Edition)

Designing for the Web: Getting Started in a New Medium

Web Design in a Nutshell