HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pages (Wiley Desktop Editions) [Paperback]

Rob Huddleston (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470274360 | ISBN-13: 978-0470274361 | Publication Date: June 3, 2008 | Edition: 1

If you’ve ever been curious about any of the multitude of internet acronyms, the web technologies they represent, and how they can benefit you, this book is a great place to start. This book covers all the necessary topics to get up and running with HTML, XHTML, and CSS while offering readers a guide to modern, standards-based design. Key tasks covered in the book include setting up a Web page, reducing image resolution, creating radio buttons, adding a hit counter, adding an embedded sound, adding content from other sites such as integrating a blog and creating an RSS feed. Large topics are broken into smaller, more approachable sub-topics that are clearly explained on two pages eliminating the back and forth page flipping required in other references. Arranged so that skills build progressively throughout the book coupled with bold page headers it is simple to flip through and easily find any section or topic you are looking for. Understandable with straightforward terms that avoid intimidating and unexplained jargon, this is a book that will benefit complete novices and advanced users alike.

While primarily focused on the technologies outlined in the title, this book goes on to provide tips on integrating with Google, Flickr, social bookmark sites and even creating and implementing RSS feeds. Rest assured, each of these technologies is explained with the benefits of each outlined. A serious resource that quickly and concisely gets to the point, this book helps you gain real skills that will have you online in short order. Best of all, you can be confident that you are doing so the right way.

HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint™ for designing effective Web pages offers visual learners a solid reference that employs straight forward examples to teach you to create and design Web pages with impact. "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips and high-resolution screen shots clearly illustrate each task while succinct explanations walk you through the examples. The associated website contains all the needed code to learn HTML.

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From the Back Cover

HTML, XHTML, and CSS

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 150 key HTML, XHTML, and CSS techniques, including:

• Creating a link to a page on the Web

• Laying out pages using Cascading Style Sheets

• Adding background images to page elements

• Adding a table to a page

• Making complex tables accessible

• Creating a form

• Replacing headers with images

• Creating tabbed navigation

• Submitting your site to search engines

• Adding JavaScript® to a page

• High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task

• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

• "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips

About the Author

Rob Huddleston has been developing Web pages and applications since 1994, and has been an instructor since 1999, teaching Web and graphic design to thousands of students. His clients have included the United States Bureau of Land Management; the United States Patent and Trademark Office; the State of California and many other federal, city and county agencies; the United States Army and Air Force; Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, Wells Fargo, Safeway, and Coca-Cola; software companies including Oracle, Intuit, and Autodesk; the University of California, San Francisco State University, the University of Southern California; and hundreds of small businesses and non-profit agencies. Rob is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Certified Expert, and Certified Developer, is an Adobe User Group Manager, and was named as an Adobe Community Expert for his volunteer work answering user questions in online forums. Rob lives in northern California with his wife and two children.
Rob is the author of XML: Your visual blueprint to creating expert websites using XML, CSS, XHTML, and XSLT, published by Wiley Publishing in 2007. You can visit Rob’s blog at www.robhuddleston.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 369 pages
• Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (June 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470274360
• ISBN-13: 978-0470274361
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for beginner of advanced user, November 11, 2008

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This review is from: HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pages (Wiley Desktop Editions) (Paperback)

As a Web design teacher who deals with these issues on a daily basis, I have already decided I will use this as a textbook in the future. My students range from completely uninformed to reasonably practiced developers. This book will work equally with all of them.

Others have addressed the depth of the topics of the book, so there is little I can add there. I wanted to say how much I appreciate how short the lessons are. Although the book is designed for more advanced Web designers, a neophyte wanting to learn to develop Web pages could pick this book up and work through the lessons in short and easy steps, becoming reasonably well informed developers.

I also particularly appreciate the appendices in the back. One addresses XHTML, and the other Cascading Style Sheets. They are both easily used and full of information.

I highly recommend this book and plan to use it in relevant graduate and undergraduate courses (actually, I also plan to keep it by my side while I work). Now if I could just find a similarly satisfying XML book.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Resource!, August 31, 2008

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O. Sanders (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pages (Wiley Desktop Editions) (Paperback)

What a great pickup this book has been! As someone who has worked with html at the code level for many years, I picked this up with the intention of honing my CSS skills. After reviewing the topics I already felt comfortable with so as to make sure I was doing things correctly, I was able to quickly get up to speed on the topics that most interested me.

Arranged so that skills build progressively through the book coupled with clear, bold page headers it is simple to flip through and easily find any section you are looking for. I especially like the way the author broke down large topics into smaller, scalable sub-topics that are clearly explained on two pages, eliminating the back and forth page flipping that some authors make necessary.

In addition to covering the most basic of html and CSS, the author doesn't shy away from introducing more advanced uses such as alternate-use style sheets and even the creation and implementation of RSS feeds.

This isn't a `dummies' book that tries too hard to be clever and jokey, it is a serious resource that quickly and clearly gets to the point while avoiding the dryness that some books fall prey to. I've never picked up a Wiley Press book before but will definitely consider them in the future.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book, July 30, 2008

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This review is from: HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pages (Wiley Desktop Editions) (Paperback)

This is a really great book for learning XHTML, CSS, and related web technologies. I like how comprehensive it is, covering topics that are mostly ignored by other HTML books like search engines, CSS hacks, and common pitfalls. Jam packed with very useful, well presented, and up to date information, you will get your moneys worth on this one.