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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, 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 technologies and techniques from which Web designers and authors must draw. Topics include understanding the Web environment, HTML, graphics, multimedia and interactivity, and emerging technologies. Web Design in a Nutshell addresses broad challenges that are specific to Web design, such as designing for unknown viewing conditions and deciding what technologies to support. The book provides strategies for designing in this unique environment, as well as background information on how the browsers handle color, fonts, graphics, and multimedia elements. It is an excellent reference for HTML 4.0 tags (including tables, frames, style sheets, and JavaScript) with special attention given to browser support and platform idiosyncrasies.
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Are you a print designer working on the Web? An HTML coder learning about server-side hosting for the first time? Web Design in a Nutshell has slim but whole chapters for those topics-- and everything else you can imagine.

Written in the popular "Nutshell" format, this guide is full of helpful tables and lists, making it a perfect desktop reference. The book breaks down the huge topic of Web site development into understandable, readable segments: the Web environment (browsers, displays, design principles), an in-depth guide to HTML tags, graphics manipulation and display, multimedia possibilities, and technologies for larger site management (such as Cascading Style Sheets [CSS] and XML).

While this book is certainly comprehensive, the abundance of information could be overwhelming to someone just starting out with HTML. In addition, the heart of this book is filled with technical specificity on Web page creation (for example, a section under "Graphics" is titled "GIF87a versus GIF89a"). Readers looking for more conceptual explanations of Web design and layout would be better served with other titles. But for day-to-day development and maintenance, Web Design in a Nutshell is a truly well-constructed toolkit.

	Preface
Pt. I	The Web Environment
Ch. 1	Designing for a Variety of Browsers	3
Ch. 2	Designing for a Variety of Displays	17
Ch. 3	Web Design Principles for Print Designers	29
Ch. 4	A Beginner's Guide to the Server	49
Ch. 5	Printing from the Web	62
Ch. 6	Accessibility	74
Ch. 7	Internationalization	81
Pt. II	Authoring
Ch. 8	HTML Overview	91
Ch. 9	Structural HTML Tags	103
Ch. 10	Formatting Text	115
Ch. 11	Creating Links	145
Ch. 12	Adding Images and Other Page Elements	164
Ch. 13	Tables	189
Ch. 14	Frames	231
Ch. 15	Forms	253
Ch. 16	Specifying Color in HTML	280
Ch. 17	Cascading Style Sheets	289
Ch. 18	Server Side Includes	327
Pt. III	Graphics
Ch. 19	GIF Format	341
Ch. 20	JPEG Format	356
Ch. 21	PNG Format	365
Ch. 22	Designing Graphics with the Web Palette	377
Ch. 23	Animated GIFs	389
Pt. IV	Multimedia and Interactivity
Ch. 24	Audio on the Web	401
Ch. 25	Video on the Web	422
Ch. 26	Flash and Shockwave	434
Ch. 27	Introduction to SMIL	450
Pt. V	Advanced Technologies
Ch. 28	Introduction to JavaScript	461
Ch. 29	Introduction to DHTML	475
Ch. 30	Introduction to XML	492
Ch. 31	XHTML	502
Ch. 32	WAP an WML	510
App. A	HTML Elements	535
	App. B: List of Attributes	543
App. C	Deprecated Tags	558
App. D	Proprietary Tags	562
App. E	CSS Support Chart	564
App. F	Character Entities	577
	Glossary	587
	Index	595