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Contents at a Glance

About the Authors .................................................................................................... xiii

About the Technical Reviewer................................................................................. xiv

About the the Cover Image Designer....................................................................... xv

Acknowledgments .................................................................................................... xvi

Introduction .............................................................................................................. xvii

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Web Design ............................................................... 1

Chapter 2: Web Page Essentials .............................................................................. 29

Chapter 3: Working With Type.................................................................................. 63

Chapter 4: Working With Images............................................................................ 119

Chapter 5: Using Links and Creating Navigation ................................................. 145

Chapter 6: Tables: How Nature (and the W3C) Intended ..................................... 227

Chapter 7: Page Layouts with CSS ........................................................................ 249

Chapter 8: Getting User Feedback ......................................................................... 307

Chapter 9: Dealing with Browser Quirks ............................................................... 343

Chapter 10: Putting Everything Together.............................................................. 357

Appendix A: An HTML5 reference.......................................................................... 387

Appendix B: Web Color Reference ........................................................................ 437

Appendix C: ENTITES reference ............................................................................ 441

Appendix D: CSS Reference ................................................................................... 459

Index.......................................................................................................................... 485

Introduction

The Web is an ever-changing, evolving entity, and it’s easy to get left behind. As designers and writers, we

see a lot of books on web design, and although many are well written, few are truly integrated, modular

resources that anyone can find useful in their day-to-day work. Most web design books concentrate on a

single technology (or, commonly, a piece of software), leaving you to figure out how to put the pieces

together.

This book is different

The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design provides a modern, integrated approach to web

design. Each of the chapters looks at a specific aspect of creating a web page, such as formatting type,

working with images, creating navigation, and creating layout blocks. In each case, relevant technologies

are explored in context and at the appropriate times, just like in real-world projects; for example, markup is

explored along with associated CSS and JavaScript, rather than each technology being placed in separate

chapters, and visual design ideas are discussed so you can get a feel for how code affects page layouts.

Dozens of practical examples are provided, which you can use to further your understanding of each

subject. This highly modular and integrated approach means you can dip in and out of the book as you

need, crafting along the way a number of web page elements that you can use on countless sites in the

future.

Because the entire skills gamut is covered—from foundation to advanced—this book is ideal for beginners

and longtime professionals alike. If you’re making your first move into standards-based web design, the

“ground floor” is covered, rather than an assumption being made regarding your knowledge. However,

contemporary ideas, techniques, and thinking are explored throughout, ensuring that the book is just as

essential for the experienced designer wanting to work on CSS layouts or for the graphic designer who

wants to discover how to create cutting-edge websites.

This book’s advocacy of web standards, usability, and accessibility with a strong eye toward visual design

makes it of use to technologists and designers alike, enabling everyone to build better websites. For those

moments when a particular tag or property value slips your mind, this book provides a comprehensive

reference guide that includes important and relevant HTML5 elements and attributes, HTML5 entities, web

colors, and CSS 3 properties and values.

Code Examples

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book and follow its instructions to access downloads and other associated resources.

To make it easier to work through the exercises, each one has an introductory box that lists where you can

find any required files and the completed files within the downloadable file archive. A short overview of

what you’ll learn is also included.

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Chapter 1

An Introduction to Web Design

In this chapter:



Introducing the Internet and web design



Working with web standards



Working with HTML



Understanding and creating CSS rules



Creating web page boilerplates

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