- Paperback: 578 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (8 Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1565925157
- ISBN-13: 978-1565925151
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 391,600 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Web design can be very simple these days thanks to the massive selection of programs available to take the difficulty out of producing slick Web sites.
But for the perfectionists and those who want more than a passing degree of control over their creations, the only real way to produce Web content is the old fashioned way--with a copy of a decent text editor and a head full of HTML tags.
There's no denying that this method ultimately produces the best results and the gives greater control over layouts but it's all so difficult. Isn't it?
O'Reilly's Web Design in a Nutshell aims to prove that it needn't be.
This superb book gives a no-nonsense overview of HTML programming starting from the ground up and encapsulating some of the more advanced topics some lesser books choose not to approach.
Everything is so well presented it makes for easy reading even when not sitting at your computer. It's nice to see such good support for multiple browsers too--the book gives information about which commands will work with which browser so it's easy to produce more universally accessible sites.
Although this is not aimed squarely at the beginner it's so well written it should be on any prespective coder's bookshelf from an early stage. An excellent read --Andrew Russell
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Web Design in a Nutshell 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. Written by veteran Web designer Jennifer Niederst, this book provides quick access to the wide range of front-end technologies and techniques from which Web designers and authors must draw.
It is an excellent reference for HTML 4.0 tags (including tables, frames, and Cascading Style Sheets) with special attention given to browser support and platform idiosyncrasies. The HTML section is more than a reference work, though. It details strange behavior in tables, for instance, and gives ideas and workarounds for using tables and frames on your site. Web Design in a Nutshell also covers multimedia and interactivity, audio and video, and emerging technologies like Dynamic HTML, XML, embedded fonts, and internationalization.
The book includes:
- Discussions of the Web environment, monitors, and browsers
- A complete reference to HTML and Server Side Includes, including browser support for every tag and attribute
- Chapters on creating GIF, JPEG and PNG graphics, including designing with the Web Palette
- Information on multimedia and interactivity, including audio, video, Flash, Shockwave, and JavaScript
- Detailed tutorial and reference on Cascading Style Sheets, including an appendix of browser compatibility information
- Appendices detailing HTML tags, attributes, deprecated tags, proprietary tags, and CSS compatibility
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Over-stuffed nuts!,
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This review is from: Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (Paperback)
The idea of having a single volume with the nitty gritty of HTML, in all its flavours, Cascading Style Sheets, DHTML, XML, Web graphics, audio, and video, CGI, SSI, and Javascript is too tempting for anyone professionally involved with the web to ignore. A collection of the O'Reilly & Associates books on each individual subject will take up many inches of shelf space, so in the tradition of the Nutshell series, here is a single volume with the essential details for those of us who don't want to start at "Hello, World!" every time.Does the book succeed? Certainly on all aspects of HTML, especially cross-browser issues, it is a perfect one-stop shop. I like the fact that Lynx gets more than a passing mention, and that accessibility for the blind and partially-sighted is covered. Cascading Style Sheets are well covered too, though it's unfortunate that the table of CSS compatibility is relegated to an Appendix, rather than integrated with the main chapter on CSS syntax. Chapters on GIFs and JPEGs are very informative, discussing all the salient points of palettes and compression. However the book clearly overreaches itself when it comes to DHTML, XML, CGI and Javascript, the chapters on these topics being much less in depth than for HTML, CSS and graphics. The author acknowledges these limitations more explicitly in the Preface than the publishers do on the back cover :-) These are good introductory discussions for those who want to move on from basic HTML, but anyone wanting a genuine desktop guide to these topics will have to fork out for a separate tome. (ORA's DHTML, CGI and Javascript books are excellent, by the way, but we're still waiting for them to come up with the definitive XML manual.) One other criticism (which I'm surprised to find myself making of an ORA book): web browsers and related tools on Windows and Macintosh are well-covered, but Unix/Linux tools barely get a look in. What features are/aren't supported on Unix versions of Netscape? Doesn't the GIMP graphics program deserve a mention? Quibbles apart, Web Design in a Nutshell is the sort of book that every web designer needs: essential, yes, but not as comprehensive and quintessential as I'd hoped (however unreasonably!), so I'll have to knock off one crown!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Everything you need to know - but not for complete beginners,
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This review is from: Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (Paperback)
I can't recommend this enough. It covers everything from HTML (very complete) through to Javascript; CSS, XML; DHTML (overviews). Especially useful is the complete listing of HTML tags and attributes. Also helpful was the list of deprecated HTML tags (ie those that the W3C will phase out in the next HTML version). This is not for beginners, but if you have a basic knowledge of HTML and web design it's invaluable both as a dip in reference book, but also for a complete overview of web design. You'd be hard pressed to find better
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very well laid out book that you can read or refer to.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (Paperback)
It would be hard to find a book that covers every thing about the Web but this one focusses on the basic knowledge required to get some Web pages together.It is clear, concise and has a place on my bookshelf as a quick reference guide. Also covers which browser supports which Tags and Attributes. Handy for multi browser compatibility. Mentions CGI and quotes handy web sites for picking up CGI scripts. If you're new to the Web and need a starting place then this is it. It touches on DHTML and Javascript but can't cover these in great depth in a book of this size. It's a good buy at the price and I thoroughly recommend it.
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