Web design in a nutshell By Jennifer Niederst, Jennifer Niederst Robbins

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:

• Discussions of the web environment including monitors and browsers, printing from the Web, accessibility, and internationalization
• 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
• Updated chapters on creating GIF, animated GIF, JPEG, and PNG graphics, including designing with the Web Palette
• Information on multimedia and interactivity, including audio, video, Flash 5 and Shockwave, and a new chapter on SMIL
• A revised tutorial and reference on Cascading Style Sheets
• Appendixes detailing HTML tags, attributes, deprecated tags, proprietary tags, CSS compatibility and support, and character entities

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Web design in a nutshell: a desktop quick reference

By Jennifer Niederst, Jennifer Niederst Robbins

Edition: 2, illustrated

Published by O'Reilly, 2001

ISBN 0596001967, 9780596001964

618 pages
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