XHTML/CSS Basics for Web Writers

Description

For courses in Web Writing and Web Design.

 

XHTML/CSS Basics for Web Writers is a hands-on textbook that combines explanations of Web design principles and techniques with simple instructions for creating accurate Web code. It guides readers through the entire Web design process, showing them how to assemble and inventory information, locate graphics, write text and create a standards-compliant design. Devoting a chapter to each Web page element, it offers step-by-step instructions that are understandable to computer novices and also useful for experienced professionals. Its coverage of the most recent developments in Web code, chapters on XML and multimedia, and Web page writing and design make it an excellent reference for anyone seeking to create modern, standards-compliant Web designs. 

Table of Contents

1.      Web Design Preliminaries

2.      HTML Basics

3.      Cascading Style Sheet Basics

4.      Working with Text, Part I: HTML Tags

5.      Working with Text, Part 2: Cascading Style Sheets

6.      Working with Images

7.      Working with Colors and Backgrounds

8.      Linking Pages

9.      Web Page Design

10.  Using CSS for Site Layout, Part 1

11.  CSS for Layout, Part 2

12.  Using Multimedia

13.  The Future: XML

 

APPENDIX 1: HTML Tables

APPENDIX 2: Image Replacement Techniques

APPENDIX 3: Print Style Sheets

APPENDIX 4: Blogging

APPENDIX 5: Character Entity References

APPENDIX 6: Browser-Specific Tags and Deprecated Tags