Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference

Jennifer Niederst Robbins

O'Reilly, 2001 - Computers - 618 pages

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:

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

Contents

• Chapter 1Designing for a Variety of Browsers: 1
• Chapter 3Web Design Principles for Print Designers: 29
• Chapter 4A Beginners Guide to the Server: 49

About the author

Jennifer Niederst Robbins was one of the first designers for the Web. As the designer of O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site, she has been designing for the Web since 1993. She is the author of the bestselling "Web Design in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly), and has taught web design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and Johnson and Wales University in Providence. She has spoken at major design and Internet events including SXSW Interactive, Seybold Seminars, the GRAFILL conference (Geilo, Norway), and one of the first W3C International Expos.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference; In a Nutshell (o'Reilly) Series; In a nutshell; Nutshell handbook; Volume 2 of The Web design CD bookshelf
• Author: Jennifer Niederst Robbins
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: O'Reilly, 2001
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Dec 6, 2007
• ISBN: 0596001967, 9780596001964
• Length: 618 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Computer Science; Computers / Design, Graphics & Media / Graphics Tools; Computers / Internet / Web Design; Computers / Web / Page Design