Book Details:
By Larry Aronson
Published Oct 21, 2010 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
Copyright 2011
Pages: 336
Edition: 4th
ISBN-10: 0-321-71208-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-71208-0
About the Book
THE CLASSIC WEB AUTHORING GUIDE, NOW 100% UPDATED AND BETTER THAN EVER!
If it’s for the Web, this book will help you create it…faster, smarter, better! Don’t settle for canned templates or boilerplate designs! Take control, with the classic guide to HTML web authoring…now completely revised for the latest techniques and shortcuts, including HTML5!
Build it right…
Well-planned and well-organized
Easy to navigate
Fun to read, view, and use
Search engine-friendly and findable
Reliable and consistent
Easy to update and maintain
Compatible with any browser
Build it all…
Websites and pages
Wiki articles
Web services and ecommerce
eBay pages
Blog posts
HTML email
And much more!
Contains quick reference guides to HTML elements and CSS properties–including the newest HTML5 and CSS3 improvements!
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xii
About the Author xiii
Preface xiv
Chapter 1 HTML and the Web 2
HTML: The Language of the Web 3
A Bit of Web History 7
Hypertext Content and Online Media 11
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) 11
Web Browsers and Servers 12
The Web Bestiary 15
HTML5 and Web Standards 19
Do We All Have to Learn HTML5 Now? 21
Chapter 2 The HTML Language 24
Language Overview 25
Page Structure and the DOM 31
HTML5 Syntax 35
Comments 35
Character Entities 36
Markup Elements 37
HTML5 Semantics 40
HTML Attributes 51
Event Handlers 55
Block Elements 57
Headings 57
Paragraphs, Block Quotes, and Address Blocks 61
Lists 67
Division and Section Elements 73
Tables 77
Links and Anchors 85
Uniform Resource Locators 86
Anchor States 88
Anchor Attributes 89
Inline Images 90
Audio and Video 95
Input Forms 99
The HTML5 Canvas 110
Chapter 3 Elements of Style 114
Cascading Style Sheets 115
CSS Selectors 119
Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements 124
Typography 128
Font Style 131
Font Weight 131
Font Variant 132
Font Size 132
Font 136
Colors 138
Background Properties 141
Text Properties 144
text-align 144
text-decoration 144
text-indent 146
text-transform 146
line-height 146
Letter and Word Spacing 148
white space 150
vertical-align 150
Box Properties 152
Height and Width 153
Margins and Padding 154
Borders 157
List Styles 161
CSS Positioning 166
Other CSS Properties 171
Display and Visibility 172
Overflow 177
Float and Clear 177
Chapter 4 Using HTML 180
Tools of the Trade 182
Blogging 185
Google Docs 192
eBay Selling 198
Wikipedia 200
HTML Email 203
Chapter 5 Building Websites 208
Development Approaches 209
Content or Service Site? 211
Static or Dynamic Content? 212
Target Audience 212
Money 213
The Future 214
Websites 215
cgi-bin 218
logs 219
public_html 220
Other Website Files 221
Organization and Navigation 224
Files and Directories 224
Page Layout 225
Navigation 228
Imagemaps 235
Toggles and Accordions 237
Tabbed Content Sections 240
Opening New Windows 246
Page Head Information 249
meta Elements 249
link Elements 251
Other Head Elements 254
Search Engine Optimization 256
Avoiding Common Mistakes 261
Designing the Presentation Before the Information Architecture 261
Using Outdated Tools and Construction Methods 262
Not Validating the HTML and CSS 263
Not Testing in Different Browsers 264
Not Putting in Enough Comments 265
Appendix A: HTML5 Quick Reference 267
Root Element 268
Document Head Elements 268
Section Elements 269
Heading Elements 270
Block Elements 270
List Elements 271
Inline Elements 271
Embedded Elements 273
Table Elements 275
Form and Control Elements 276
Legacy Elements 277
Appendix B: CSS Properties 279
Explanation of Values 279
CSS Properties 280
Aural Properties 300
Index 305
About the Author
Larry Aronson
Larry Aronson is a Web developer and Internet business consultant with over four decades of experience designing and developing computer applications. A graduate of the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana with degrees in Computer Science and Psychology, Larry began his professional career as an Assistant Systems Engineer with IBM’s Chicago manufacturing branch office.
Larry moved to New York City in the early 1970s and worked for the User Services department of Columbia University while pursuing his Masters degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science. He then worked a number of years for Boeing Computer Services, starting as a Technical Sales Representative and working his way up to Tech Manager of BCS New York before leaving to start his own consulting company.
As president of Larry Aronson Associates, Larry's major clients were the CBS News Election Unit, where he wrote major segments of the election system, and the Mobil Oil company, where he was the principal programmer responsible for migrating their safety data publishing system to a relational database management system and graphical, data entry and display technology.
In late 1993, Larry discovered the World Wide Web and became active in its newsgroups and discussion lists. He wrote the first book on Web publishing, “HTML Manual of Style” (Ziff-Davis Press, 1994) and based on its success, began teaching HTML around the country and online, creating and conducting online classes for Ziff-Davis University on CompuServe.
Larry lives in a Manhattan loft in the heart of “Silicon Alley” and devotes his time to building Web applications for individuals and small business; helping people work and live on the World Wide Web. He was a founder of the World Wide Web Artist’s Consortium, a board member of the New York Software Industries Association and a founding member of the Social Media Club.
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