Foundation website creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript
You'll also see how JavaScript works as part of the much-hyped technique Ajax and in turn where Ajax fits into the wider Web 2.0 picture. While a website is being built, it needs to be tested across multiple browsers and platforms to ensure that the site works for all users, regardless of abili...
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Berkeley, CA
Friends of Ed
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- About the Authors
- About the Cover Image Designer
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Introducing the Past, Present, and Future of the Web
- The standard way of doing things
- Every journey starts with a single step:the Web past
- Then there were standards:the Web now
- A crystal ball: the Web future
- Building on standards for the modern Web
- Whats inside this book?
- Chapter 2 Keeping a Project on Track
- Stay away from waterfalls:the traditional approach
- The nine knowledge areas
- Web project management: the power of iteration
- An agile example of planning
- Achieving the goal: identifying doneness
- 8220;But the PMI covers nine areas; youve talked about only three!
- Tools available
- Summary: the best advice
- Profiling Professions: Jason Fried
- Chapter 3 Planning and High-Level Design
- The toolbox
- Goals and objectives discussion
- Brainstorming
- User stories and user personas
- Feature/unfeature list
- Dealing with nonstandard browsers
- Browser-specific style sheets using conditional comments
- Filtering CSS rules with CSS selectors
- CSS hacks: exploiting one bug to resolve another
- Fixing your spacing bugs in Internet Explorer 6 and 7
- CSS media types and
- Wireframes
- Mock-ups
- Information architecture
- Prototype
- Lets go to an example
- Summary: achieving balance
- Profiling Professions: Daniel Burka
- Chapter 4 Writing Markup with HTML and XHTML
- What are web pages, really?
- The basics of markup
- Where computer markup languages came from
- Elements (and tags)
- Attributes and their values
- Empty elements
- Document types
- Starting with XHTML
- Document shell
- The head
- The body
- Marking up content
- Headlines
- Blocks of text
- Grouping content
- Identifying content
- Links
- Emphasis
- Lists
- Images
- Tables
- Forms
- Special characters
- All together now: creating real pages
- Chapter 5 Exploring Fundamental Concepts of CSS
- The origins and evolution of Cascading Style Sheets
- How CSS works
- Default browser styles
- Anatomy of a CSS style sheet
- Applying styles to web page elements
- Inline styles
- Embedded style sheets
- External style sheets
- More CSS selectors: targeting page elements with surgical precision
- CSS inheritance: making the general case work in your favor
- The CSS cascade and rules of specificity
- Visual rendering: document flow and the CSS box model
- What is document flow?
- What is the CSS box model?
- Changing CSS box properties: the CSS box model explained
- Summary
- Chapter 6 Developing CSS in Practice: From Design to Deployment
- The visual source: understanding design documents
- Diving into code: advanced CSS concepts applied
- The CSS development workflow
- Typography: text colors, fonts, and font sizes
- Implementing the header: images and backgrounds
- The main navigation menu: absolute and relative CSS positioning
- Skinning the navigation menu: styling lists with CSS
- Adding interactivity: special styling for selected items and rollovers
- Making columns using floats and margins
- Styling the footer: clearing floats and adding borders