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Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) [Paperback]

Jennifer Niederst Robbins
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25 Sep 2001 0596001967 978-0596001964 2

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:

<ul>   <li>Discussions of the web environment including monitors and browsers, printing from the Web, accessibility, and internationalization</li>   <li>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</li>   <li>Updated chapters on creating GIF, animated GIF, JPEG, and PNG graphics, including designing with the Web Palette</li>   <li>Information on multimedia and interactivity, including audio, video, Flash 5 and Shockwave, and a new chapter on SMIL</li>   <li>A revised tutorial and reference on Cascading Style Sheets</li>   <li>Appendixes detailing HTML tags, attributes, deprecated tags, proprietary tags, CSS compatibility and support, and character entities</li> </ul> <br />  <br /> 


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  • Paperback: 640 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (25 Sep 2001)
  • Language: French
  • ISBN-10: 0596001967
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596001964
  • Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 15.4 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 709,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Web Design in a Nutshell is the welcome second edition of a classic Web authoring guide. It is aimed at professionals, with the focus sharply on page layout rather than scripting or programming. Two things are outstanding. First, the book is a handy reference for core Web standards like HTML tags, character entities, MIME types and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Second, and most important, the author offers concise, meticulous explanations and comments on key topics including the various different approaches to text formatting, choosing and optimising image types, and getting good results from tables. She highlights the importance of Web standards, and is careful to include Macintosh as well as Windows issues when discussing design tools or compatibility matters. Reference information is up-to-date as of Internet Explorer 5.5 and Netscape 6.0.

The early chapters offer general introduction to the Web environment, laying down basic design principles and covering tricky issues like printing and internationalisation. The next part covers formatting and layout with HTML, hyperlinks, tables, frames, forms and CSS. Part three is an in-depth look at images, particularly JPEG, GIG, PNG, and colour usage. Multimedia comes next, featuring video and audio formats as well as Flash movies, while the final part introduces other technologies such as Javascript and Dynamic HTML, XML, XHTML and WAP. These overviews are useful, but the best chapters are those that cover the nitty-gritty of setting out a page. It is ideal for print designers who need to understand Web design, or as a reliable general-purpose handbook for Web authors. --Tim Anderson

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"an excellent reference....once again O’Reilly has published a winner." -- Dave Agold, Alamo PC, April 2002

A concise compendium of just about everything that a web designer needs to know. -- Major Keary, Book News Feb 2002

An excellent reference…once again O’Reilly has published a winner. -- Dave Agold, Alamo PC, April 2002

Contains all the info you need to know to design effective web pages. It is an indispensable tool for web designers and authors at al levels of experience. -- Ed Laskowski, The Vista PC Journal, Feb 2001

If you are looking for a quick reference on web design, this book is for you. -- Sam Gardner,PC News, Polk Computer Users Group, March 2002

If you like making intelligent, informed decisions, then this is an excellent book to add to your library. -- Bill Blinn, Technology Corner, Jan 25, 2003

The updated 2nd Ed, like others in O’Reilly’s “Nutshell” line, does a splendid job of presenting something clear and cogent on almost any web design subject. -- Michael Dominowski, Staten Island Advance, Jan 2002

Unless you have a photographic memory and can keep endless facts, figures, & programming languages in your head, you will find this book to be a goldmine. -- Lorraine Petrie, South jersey Apple Users Group, Jan 2002

Web Design in a Nutshell could easily have been titled 'The Web Designer's Companion'--it's mighty handy to have around. -- Angelynn Grant, Compbookreview.com, March 2002

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A thorough guide to html (1st edition) 8 April 2002
By A. King
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This is one book that I use every day - provided I can extract it from the fingers of my cow-orkers who keep borrowing it ! Every tag is described in depth, and it is one of the few books I've come across that describes CSS in a meaningful way.
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5.0 out of 5 stars O'Reilly come up trumps again 13 May 2004
By Stephen Hampshire VINE™ VOICE
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The ever-excellent O'Reilly hit the spot again with this comprehensive but concise reference.

You'll need to have some html experience to get into this, but it does what O'Reilly do so well - explain something simply without assuming that you are a "Dummy". Works both as a tutorial and a reference.

Invaluable for anyone who understands a little bit about how html works (and CSS etc) but can't remember all the tags and attributes off the top of their heads. Buy it now.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Web Design in a Nutshell 24 Jun 2002
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This is an excellent book which covers many of the practical issues which are often seem to be overlooked by web designers. The chapters dealing with problems related to frames and differing screen / platform configurations are superb. This should be compulsory reading for all students of practical web design !
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