Much has changed since the bestselling Web Design in a Nutshell debuted in 1998. The new edition is completely updated for the latest web browsers (Netscape 6, IE 5 for Mac, IE 5.5 for Windows, and Opera 5); graphics editors (Photoshop 6, Macromedia Fireworks 4, and JASC Paint Shop Pro 6); and authoring tools (Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 and Adobe GoLive 5). There's all-new material on web standards, printing, accessibility, Flash, and designing for wireless devices.
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 |
