Amazon.co.uk Review
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
Product Description
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
