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Interact with Web Standards. Laying the foundation for a solid understanding of web design, this book weaves together industry best practices and standards-based design techniques. It is built on practical examples and short exercises crafted to help readers learn quickly and retain information. Created by the education luminaries who brought you the revolutionary InterACT.

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. It is important that these implementations are. A book about code that doesn't read like a s VCR manual It's not just for programmers, it's written and presented to make it easy for designers, bloggers, content and e-commerce managers, marketers to learn about the code used to write web pages This hands-on workshop introduces you to the.

Web Design in a Nutshell. Are you still designing web sites like it's ? If so, you're in for a surprise. InterACT with Web Standards is the right way for educators to prepare their students for today's workplace. Updated in collaboration with co-author Ethan Marcotte, this third edition covers improvements and challenges in the changing environment of standards-based design. Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest, Designing with Web Standards remains your essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain.

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Designing with Web Standards is even more: intended to be highlighted, dogeared, bookmarked, shared, passed around, and evangelized, it goes beyond reading to revolution. Designers are no longer using X HTML as a design tool, but as a means of defining the meaning and structure of content.

Cascading Style Sheets are no longer just something interesting to tinker with, but rather a reliable method for handling all matters of presentation, from fonts and colors to the layout of the entire page. In fact, following the standards is now a mandate of professional web design. Our popular reference, Web Design in a Nutshell, is one of the first books to capture this new web landscape with an edition that's been completely rewritten and expanded to reflect the state of the art.

In addition to being an authoritative reference for X HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, this book also provides an overview of the unique requirements of designing for the Web and gets to the nitty-gritty of JavaScript and DOM Scripting, web graphics optimization, and multimedia production. It is an indispensable tool for web designers and developers of all levels. There are many books for web designers, but none that address such a wide variety of topics.

Find out why nearly half a million buyers have made this the most popular web design book available. You will learn how to develop fully standards-compliant, mobile-friendly, and search engine-optimized web sites that are robust, fast, and easy to update while providing excellent user experience and interoperability.

The book covers all major web standards for markup, style sheets, web typography, web syndication, semantic annotations, and accessibility. This edition has been fully updated with the latest in web standards, including the finalized HTML5 vocabulary and the full list of CSS3 properties. An introduction to standards-based Web design, this book treats creating a website from the point of view of the writer, focusing on writing concerns and how they fit with the technological challenges of the Web.

Readers will learn about the reasons for writing on the Web; the challenges of writing there; and the solid, but flexible construction of individual pages. The focus is on building websites that can grow, including sites built around the popular, open-source WordPress blogging system. Rich with examples, the book demonstrates that Web writing and design can be fast and fun--and accomplished without expensive software or sophisticated programming skills.

This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various techniques and short quizzes to make sure you understand key concepts. This thoroughly revised edition is ideal for students and professionals of all backgrounds and skill levels.

It is simple and clear enough for beginners, yet thorough enough to be a useful reference for experienced developers keeping their skills up to date. Get to know the super-powers of SVG graphics.

The accompanying website gives a download of the first chapter for free.