Beginning Html Xhtml Css And Javascript

by Jon Duckett

This book covers all the major front-end web development topics: XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript (and AJA X). Coding practices such as designing for larger screen sizes (around 980 px wide is now industry standard), designing for more recent browsers (and the features they offer), increased use of technologies such as AJAX, and the way that CSS is often split into multiple style sheets (e.g. separate files for layout, typography, colors, forms, etc.) provide the reader with up-to-date knowledge. Special checklists / mini-appendices remind people of the key topics and where they are covered in the book. Flow and visual impact of screen shots are optimized as well as copious examples. This also covers mobile devices that offers better online experiences such as iPhone and Blackberry. The way in which these popular devices interpret web pages is also covered, along with real-life examples, which helps educate readers in the best practices of designing for multiple devices. About The Author: Jon Duckett has been a web programmer for over 12 years, and has co-authored more than 10 books on web design, programming, accessibility and usability. He has commissioned and edited over 30 books on web development and curated conferences about web programming. For the past 7 years he has been a web strategy consultant, often coding front ends for projects and designing architectures for the back end programming. Table Of Contents: Introduction. ?Chapter 1: Structuring Documents for the Web. ?Chapter 2: Links and Navigation. ?Chapter 3: Images, Audio, and Video. ?Chapter 4: Tables. ?Chapter 5: Forms. ?Chapter 6: Frames. ?Chapter 7: Cascading Style Sheets. ?Chapter 8: More Cascading Style Sheets. ?Chapter 9: Page Layout. ?Chapter 10: Design Issues. ?Chapter 11: Learning JavaScript. ?Chapter 12: Working with JavaScript. ?Chapter 13: Putting Your Site on the Web. ?Chapter 14: Checklists. Appendix A: Answers to Exercises. Appendix B: XHTML Element Reference. Appendix C: CSS Properties.

Genres: Programming, Computers, Technology, Reference

864 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Jon Duckett has been designing and building web sites for over a decade, working with global brands, and has authored and co-authored over a dozen books on web design, programming, usability and accessibility. He has curated conferences about web programming and has been a web strategy consultant, often coding front ends for projects and designing architectures for back end programming. He is the author of the best-selling, HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites and JavaScript & jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development.

Reviews

[Tsvetomir · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good introductory book on HTML and CSS. There is just enough information about this topics, advises and best practices. Actually this is the best source of information about creating div based page layouts I've found so far.
The JavaScript part is not as detailed as HTML/CSS but some basic concepts are explained.

[Mo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice general review of all concepts. I had to use this for CI reviews of front-end developer's javascript and manually updating automated generated css sheets.

Best section is probably the typography information (good references to historical reasons why some theories on typography exist).

Information is probably dated now, but an updated version is probably relevant.

[Amin Razavi · Rating 5 out of 5]

best book to begin.full of samples step by step , i wish the other programming books use this structure...