Designing with Web Standards, 2/e

Description

Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has updated his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. This new edition--now in full color--covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers since the first edition introduced the world to standards-based design. Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest, it remains an essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain.

Readers will learn from Jeffrey's insights as he demonstrates how web standards are driving search engine friendliness ("findability") and the Web 2.0 applications that have reinvigorated the medium and the online marketplace. Readers will discover new techniques to make CSS layouts work better across multiple browsers and ways to make web content more accessible.

Features

The ultimate resource for standards-based Web design, updated and enhanced for current and future browsers.

• Author Jeffrey Zeldman pioneered standards-based Web design
• Previous edition of this best-selling guide changed the way an entire industry worked; this edition continues that trend, detailing new techniques that will result in even better design.
• Covers all of the key coding languages of the Web: HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, and ECMAScript (standard JavaScript).