This book is your essential guide to understanding the advantages you can bring to your web pages by implementing web standards and precisely how to apply them.
Web standards such as XHTML and CSS are now fairly well-known technologies, and they will likely be familiar to you, the web designer—indeed, they are all around you on the Web. However, within web standards still lies a challenge—while the browser's support for web standards is steadily increasing, many web developers and designers have yet to discover the real benefits of web standards and respect the need to adhere to them. The real art is in truly understanding the benefits and implementing the standards efficiently.
Web Standards Solutions is broken down into 16 short chapters, each covering the theory and practice of different web standards concept and showing multiple solutions to given problems for easy learning. You’ll learn about multi-column layouts, using image replacement techniques to your best advantage, making the best use of tables and lists, and many more.This highly modular approach allows you to rapidly digest, understand, and utilize the essentials of web standards.
Part One: Get Down with Markup
Chapter 1: Lists
Chapter 2: Headings
Chapter 3: Tables Are Evil?
Chapter 4: Quotations
Chapter 5: Forms
Part Two: Simplebits of Style
Chapter 10: Applying CSS
Chapter 11: Print Styles
Chapter 12: CSS Layouts
Chapter 13: Styling Text
Chapter 14: Image Replacement