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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 the same throughout the Web, otherwise it becomes a messy proprietary place, and lacks consistency. These standards also allow content to be more compatible with multiple different viewing devices, such as screen readers for people with vision impairments, cell phones, PDFs, etc. HTML, XML, and CSS are all such technologies. This book is your essential guide to understanding the advantages you can bring to your web pages by implementing web standards and precisely how to apply them. Web standards such as XHTML and CSS are now fairly well-known technologies, and they will likely be familiar to you, the web designerindeed, they are all around you on the Web. However, within web standards still lies a challengewhile the browser's support for web standards is steadily increasing, many web developers and designers have yet to discover the real benefits of web standards and respect the need to adhere to them. The real art is in truly understanding the benefits and implementing the standards efficiently. As a simple example of its power, you can use CSS to lay out your pages instead of nesting tablesthis can make file sizes smaller, allowing pages to load faster, ultimately increasing accessibility for all browsers, devices, and web users.
- Use XHTML elements correctly so that your markup is compact and more easily understood.
- Use CSS to style different elements of a web page.
- Lay out pages easily and effectively.
- Compare multiple methods of achieving the same results to make better design choices.
- Learn about advanced web design techniques and their important caveats.
About the Author
Dan is an award-winning web designer, consultant, and author who specializes in designing and building sites with web standards.
Throughout 2003, Dan became well known for his redesigns of the websites for Fast Company and Inc. using standards-compliant methods, while pushing the limits of CSS.
Dan also runs the popular weblog SimpleBits, for which he writes articles and commentary on the web, technology, and life. His consulting firm of the same name focuses on applying the methods found throughout this book in creating simplistic and attractive interfaces.
Speaking at conferences such as SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX, Dan shares his simplistic approach to web design and development while spreading the word on the standards-based markup and style techniques he's collected.
He lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with his wife, Kerry, two cats, and one gecko.
Throughout 2003, Dan became well known for his redesigns of the websites for Fast Company and Inc. using standards-compliant methods, while pushing the limits of CSS.
Dan also runs the popular weblog SimpleBits, for which he writes articles and commentary on the web, technology, and life. His consulting firm of the same name focuses on applying the methods found throughout this book in creating simplistic and attractive interfaces.
Speaking at conferences such as SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX, Dan shares his simplistic approach to web design and development while spreading the word on the standards-based markup and style techniques he's collected.
He lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with his wife, Kerry, two cats, and one gecko.
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Relevant, Consistent, Lucid & Enormously Important,
By "newton_2004" (Aloha, OR USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Paperback)
Just finished reading Dan's book. It was a breath of fresh air to read a book that is clear, consistent and to the point. No BS, ever! It was impressive how Dan takes the reader logically through CSS hurdles, step by step, and with economy of words. If you know XHTML markup and basic CSS, then you can expect to learn the following:1. The right choice of tag for a particular situation 2. Different ways of styling the tags = Standards compliance and Accessibility being the central theme 3. CSS Layout Techniques (ex: 3-col to 2-col switching using a single stylesheet)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Making my markup sleeker than Lisa Kudrow rolled in yoghurt,
By Bruce (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Paperback)
I have to say it's excellent. A colleague read a chapter and pronounced it "the best and most lucid explanation I've ever seen of when to use <b> and when to use <strong>" and I agree; in the next few weeks I shall be putting into practice loads of his tips. I've already fancy-Dandified my header styles, removed presentational <br /> tags, and made them sleeker than Lisa Kudrow rolled in yoghurt. I will be marking up more semantically from now on. I understand the benefits and need; I always wanted to - just didn't know how to do all that CSS wizardry.His tip on using the same css and specifying whether it's a 2 or 3 column page via an id on the body tag is likely to lead to a 40 foot statue of him being erected in the centre of several metropolises. I have to carry the book in a briefcase to protect myself from attractive women trying to seduce me because of it. Hyperbole aside; my boss has already ordered a few copies for the team, as the book is written with a simple, sensible style. is lucid and doesn't assume that you are a CSS guru, yet doesn't talk down. (from brucelawson.co.uk/accessiblity)
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Good book but not enough,
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This review is from: Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, Special Edition (Paperback)
Introductions and conclusions of each chapters are too long. There is a lot of chapters like chapter 1 where the target readers seem very newbie because the author take a while to explain why is bad to create a list with or instead of <ul>.All the book is dedicated to CSS but there is not enough CSS. I think, this is better to buy a book on how to be a master in CSS and a book on how to create clean html and all the best practices will follow naturally.
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