Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (OReilly))
Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (OReilly))
ISBN: 0596009879
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 325
Pages: 325
Authors: Jennifer Niederst
- Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
- Table of Contents
- Intermediate Perl
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Technical Reviewers
- Lead Technical Editors
- Technical Reviewers
- Preface
- What s in the Book
- Using Code Examples
- Conventions Used in This Book
- CSS Property Conventions
- How to Contact Us
- Safari Enabled
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: The Web Environment
- Chapter 1. Web Standards
- Section 1.1. What Are Standards?
- Section 1.2. Current Web Standards
- Section 1.3. Standards-Driven Design
- Section 1.4. For Further Reading
- Chapter 2. Designing for a Variety of Browsers
- Section 2.1. Browser History
- Section 2.2. Browser Roll-Call
- Section 2.3. Gathering Usage Statistics
- Section 2.4. Learning from Browser Statistics
- Section 2.5. Dealing with Browser Differences
- Section 2.6. Know Your Audience
- Section 2.7. Test
- Chapter 3. Designing for a Variety of Displays
- Section 3.1. Designing for Unknown Monitor Resolutions
- Section 3.2. Fixed Versus Liquid Web Pages
- Section 3.3. Designing
- Section 3.4. Mobile Devices
- Chapter 4. A Beginner s Guide to the Server
- Section 4.1. Servers 101
- Section 4.2. Unix Directory Structures
- Section 4.3. File Naming Conventions
- Section 4.4. Uploading Documents (FTP)
- Section 4.5. File (MIME) Types
- Chapter 5. Accessibility
- Section 5.1. Types of Disabilities
- Section 5.2. Overview of Assistive Technology
- Section 5.3. Who Is Responsible for Accessibility?
- Section 5.4. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- Section 5.5. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0)
- Section 5.6. Standards Variations and Section 508
- Section 5.7. Web Accessibility Techniques
- Section 5.8. Testing for Accessibility
- Chapter 6. Internationalization
- Section 6.1. Character Sets and Encoding
- Section 6.2. Character References
- Section 6.3. Language Features
- Section 6.4. Style Sheets Language Features
- Section 6.5. For Further Reading
- Part II: The Structural Layer: XML and (X)HTML
- Chapter 7. Introduction to XML
- Section 7.1. XML Basics
- Section 7.2. How It Works
- Section 7.3. XML Document Syntax
- Section 7.4. Well-Formed XML
- Section 7.5. Document Type Definition (DTD)
- Section 7.6. XML Namespaces
- Section 7.7. XML on the Web
- Section 7.8. Web-Related XML Applications
- Section 7.9. Where to Learn More
- Chapter 8. HTML and XHTML Overview
- Section 8.1. The Role of HTML
- Section 8.2. Markup Basics
- Section 8.3. Introduction to XHTML
- Section 8.4. Which Standard Is Right for You?
- Section 8.5. Well-Formed XHTML
- Section 8.6. Web Authoring Tools
- Section 8.7. Good Authoring Practices
- Chapter 9. Document Structure
- Section 9.1. Minimal Document Structure
- Section 9.2. Document Type Declaration
- Section 9.3. The Root Element
- Section 9.4. The Document Header
- Section 9.5. The Document Body
- Chapter 10. Text Elements
- Section 10.1. Choosing Text Elements
- Section 10.2. The Building Blocks of Content
- Section 10.3. Inline Elements
- Section 10.4. Deleted and Inserted Text
- Section 10.5. Generic Elements (div and span)
- Section 10.6. Lists
- Section 10.7. Presentational Elements
- Section 10.8. Character Entity References
- Chapter 11. Creating Links
- Section 11.1. Simple Hypertext Links
- Section 11.2. Linking Within a Document
- Section 11.3. Targeting Windows
- Section 11.4. Alternative Protocols
- Section 11.5. Linking Documents with link
- Chapter 12. Images and Objects
- Section 12.1. Inline Images
- Section 12.2. Image Maps
- Section 12.3. Embedded Media
- Section 12.4. Java Applets
- Section 12.5. Inline (Floating) Frames
- Chapter 13. Tables
- Section 13.1. Table Uses
- Section 13.2. Basic Table Structure
- Section 13.3. Row Groups
- Section 13.4. Columns and Column Groups
- Section 13.5. Table Presentation
- Section 13.6. Accessible Tables
- Section 13.7. Responsible Layout Tables
- Chapter 14. Frames
- Section 14.1. Introduction to Frames
- Section 14.2. Basic Frameset Structure
- Section 14.3. Frame Function and Appearance
- Section 14.4. Targeting Frames
- Section 14.5. Frame Design Tips and Tricks
- Chapter 15. Forms
- Section 15.1. The Basic Form Element
- Section 15.2. Form Controls
- Section 15.3. Accessibility Features
- Section 15.4. disabled and readonly
- Section 15.5. Affecting Form Appearance
- Part III: The Presentation Layer: Cascading Style Sheets
- Chapter 16. Cascading Style Sheets Fundamentals
- Section 16.1. CSS in a Nutshell
- Section 16.2. The Benefits of CSS
- Section 16.3. How CSS Works
- Section 16.4. Rule Syntax
- Section 16.5. Adding Styles to a Document
- Section 16.6. Key Concepts
- Section 16.7. Specifying Values
- Section 16.8. Browser Support
- Section 16.9. For Further Reading
- Chapter 17. Selectors
- Section 17.1. Type (Element) Selector
- Section 17.2. Contextual Selectors
- Section 17.3. Class and ID Selectors
- Section 17.4. Attribute Selectors
- Section 17.5. Pseudoselectors
- Chapter 18. Font and Text Properties
- Section 18.1. Typography on the Web
- Section 18.2. Font Family
- Section 18.3. Font Size
- Section 18.4. Other Font Settings
- Section 18.5. Text Transformation (Capitalization)
- Section 18.6. Text Decoration
- Section 18.7. Line Height
- Section 18.8. Text Alignment Properties
- Section 18.9. Text Spacing
- Section 18.10. Text Direction
- Chapter 19. Basic Box Properties
- Section 19.1. The Box Model, Revisited
- Section 19.2. Width and Height
- Section 19.3. Margins
- Section 19.4. Borders
- Section 19.5. Padding
- Chapter 20. Color and Backgrounds
- Section 20.1. Foreground Color
- Section 20.2. Background Color
- Section 20.3. Background Images
- Chapter 21. Floating and Positioning
- Section 21.1. Normal Flow
- Section 21.2. Floating
- Section 21.3. Positioning Basics
- Section 21.4. Absolute Positioning
- Section 21.5. Fixed Positioning
- Section 21.6. Relative Positioning
- Chapter 22. CSS for Tables
- Section 22.1. The Essence of Tables
- Section 22.2. Styling Tables
- Section 22.3. Borders
- Section 22.4. Table Layout (Width and Height)
- Section 22.5. Table Display Values
- Chapter 23. Lists and Generated Content
- Section 23.1. CSS for Lists
- Section 23.2. Generated Content
- Chapter 24. CSS Techniques
- Section 24.1. Centering a Page
- Section 24.2. Two-Column Layouts
- Section 24.3. Three-Column Layouts
- Section 24.4. Boxes with Rounded Corners
- Section 24.5. Image Replacement
- Section 24.6. CSS Rollovers
- Section 24.7. List-Based Navigation Bars
- Section 24.8. CSS Techniques Resources
- Chapter 25. Managing Browser Bugs: Workarounds, Hacks, and Filters
- Section 25.1. Working with
- Section 25.2. The Browsers
- Section 25.3. Hack and Workaround Management 101
- Part IV: The Behavioral Layer: JavaScript and the DOM
- Chapter 26. Introduction to JavaScript
- Section 26.1. A Little Background
- Section 26.2. Using JavaScript
- Section 26.3. JavaScript Syntax
- Section 26.4. Event Handling
- Section 26.5. The Browser Object
- Section 26.6. Where to Learn More
- Chapter 27. DOM Scripting
- Section 27.1. A Sordid Past
- Section 27.2. Out of the Dark Ages
- Section 27.3. The DOM
- Section 27.4. Manipulating Documents with the DOM
- Section 27.5. Working with Style
- Section 27.6. DOM Scripting in Action
- Section 27.7. Supplement: Getting Started with Ajax
- Part V: Web Graphics
- Chapter 28. Web Graphics Overview
- Section 28.1. Web Graphic File Formats
- Section 28.2. Image Resolution
- Section 28.3. Color on the Web
- Section 28.4. Web Graphics Production Tips
- Chapter 29. GIF Format
- Section 29.1. 8-Bit Indexed Color
- Section 29.2. LZW Compression
- Section 29.3. Interlacing
- Section 29.4. Transparency
- Section 29.5. Minimizing GIF File Sizes
- Section 29.6. Designing GIFs with the Web Palette
- Chapter 30. JPEG Format
- Section 30.1. 24-Bit Color
- Section 30.2. JPEG Compression
- Section 30.3. Progressive JPEGs
- Section 30.4. Creating JPEGs
- Section 30.5. Minimizing JPEG File Size
- Chapter 31. PNG Format
- Section 31.1. When to Use PNGs
- Section 31.2. PNG Features
- Section 31.3. PlatformBrowser Support
- Section 31.4. Creating PNG Files
- Section 31.5. PNG Optimization Strategies
- Section 31.6. For Further Reading
- Chapter 32. Animated GIFs
- Section 32.1. How They Work
- Section 32.2. Using Animated GIFs
- Section 32.3. Tools
- Section 32.4. Creating Animated GIFs
- Section 32.5. Optimizing Animated GIFs
- Part VI: Media
- Chapter 33. Audio on the Web
- Section 33.1. Basic Digital Audio Concepts
- Section 33.2. Using Existing Audio
- Section 33.3. Preparing Your Own Audio
- Section 33.4. Streaming Audio
- Section 33.5. Audio Formats
- Section 33.6. Choosing an Audio Format
- Section 33.7. Adding Audio to a Web Page
- Chapter 34. Video on the Web
- Section 34.1. Basic Digital Video Concepts
- Section 34.2. Compression
- Section 34.3. Video File Formats
- Section 34.4. Adding Video to an HTML Document
- Chapter 35. The Flash Platform
- Section 35.1. Using Flash on Web Pages
- Section 35.2. Creating Flash Movies
- Section 35.3. ActionScript
- Section 35.4. Adding Flash to a Web Page
- Section 35.5. Integrating Flash with Other Technologies
- Section 35.6. The Flash Player
- Section 35.7. Flash Resources
- Chapter 36. Printing from the Web
- Section 36.1. Browser Print Mechanisms
- Section 36.2. Cascading Style Sheets for Print
- Section 36.3. Portable Document Format (PDF)
- Section 36.4. Flash Printing
- Part VII: Appendixes
- Appendix A. HTML Elements and Attributes
- Section A.1. Common Attributes and Events
- Appendix B. CSS 2.1 Properties
- Section B.1. Visual Media
- Section B.2. Paged Media
- Section B.3. Aural Styles
- Appendix C. Character Entities
- Section C.1. ASCII Character Set
- Section C.2. Nonstandard Entities (130
- Section C.3. Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1)
- Section C.4. Latin Extended-A
- Section C.5. Latin Extended-B
- Section C.6. Spacing Modifier Letters
- Section C.7. Greek
- Section C.8. General Punctuation
- Section C.9. Letter-like Symbols
- Section C.10. Arrows
- Section C.11. Mathematical Operators
- Section C.12. Miscellaneous Technical Symbols
- Section C.13. Geometric Shapes
- Section C.14. Miscellaneous Symbols
- Appendix D. Specifying Color
- Section D.1. Specifying Color by RGB Values
- Section D.2. Specifying Colors by Name
- Appendix E. Microformats: Extending (X)HTML
- Section E.1. Extending HTML 4 and XHTML
- Section E.2. Semantic Class Names
- Section E.3. Link Relationships
- Section E.4. More Microformats
- Glossary
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Index
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Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (OReilly))
ISBN: 0596009879
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 325
Pages: 325
Authors: Jennifer Niederst
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