Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, Special Edition (Paperback)

Welcome to the expanded second edition of Dan Cederholm's best-selling Web Standards Solutions. Web Standards are the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers are using the same technology syntax.

It is important that these implementations are the same throughout the Web, otherwise it becomes a messy proprietary place, and lacks consistency. These standards also allow content to be more compatible with multiple different viewing devices, such as screen readers for people with vision impairments, cell phones, PDFs, etc. HTML, XML, and CSS are all such technologies.

This book is your essential guide to understanding the advantages you can bring to your web pages by implementing web standards and precisely how to apply them. Web standards such as XHTML and CSS are now fairly well-known technologies, and they will likely be familiar to you, the web designer. Indeed, they are all around you on the Web. However, within web standards still lies a challenge: while the browser's support for web standards is steadily increasing, many web developers and designers have yet to discover the real benefits of web standards and respect the need to adhere to them.

The real art is in truly understanding the benefits and implementing the standards efficiently. As a simple example of its power, you can use CSS to lay out your pages instead of nesting tables. This can make file sizes smaller, allowing pages to load faster, ultimately increasing accessibility for all browsers, devices, and web users.

• Expanded edition containing bonus material.
• Teaches how to use Web Standards effectively to build better web sites.
• Solutions style promotes learning by work-through examples and assessments.

What you'll learn

Web Standards Solutions is broken down into 16 short chapters, each covering the theory and practice of different web standards concepts and showing multiple solutions to given problems for easy learning. You'll learn about multi-column layouts, using image replacement techniques to your best advantage, making the best use of tables and lists, and many more. This highly modular approach allows you to rapidly digest, understand, and utilize the essentials of web standards.

• Use XHTML elements correctly so that your markup is compact and more easily understood.
• Use CSS to style different elements of a web page.
• Lay out pages easily and effectively.
• Compare multiple methods of achieving the same results to make better design choices.
• Learn about advanced web design techniques and their important caveats.
• Make your sites more efficient and more accessible.

Who is this book for?

Web developers and designers wanting to learn standards-based techniques to improve their sites%mdash;making them more efficient, more accessible, and transferable across multiple browsers and devices.

歡迎來到Dan Cederholm暢銷書《Web Standards Solutions》擴充第二版。Web標準是由世界廣泛網絡聯盟（W3C）強制執行的標準技術規範，以確保網頁設計師和瀏覽器製造商使用相同的技術語法。

這些實施在整個網絡中保持一致非常重要，否則就會變成一個混亂的專有場所，缺乏一致性。這些標準還允許內容與多種不同的設備兼容，例如視力受損人士使用的屏幕閱讀器、手機、PDF等。HTML、XML和CSS都是這樣的技術。

本書是您理解實施Web標準所帶來的優勢以及如何準確應用它們的必備指南。XHTML和CSS等Web標準現在是相當著名的技術，您作為網頁設計師可能已經很熟悉它們。事實上，它們在網絡上無處不在。然而，在Web標準中仍然存在一個挑戰：雖然瀏覽器對Web標準的支持不斷增加，但許多網絡開發人員和設計師尚未發現Web標準的真正好處，也未能尊重遵守它們的需求。

真正的藝術在於真正理解這些好處並高效地實施標準。作為其強大功能的一個簡單示例，您可以使用CSS來布局網頁，而不是嵌套表格。這可以使文件大小更小，加快頁面加載速度，從而提高所有瀏覽器、設備和網絡用戶的可訪問性。

本擴充版包含額外的內容。通過示例和評估的解決方案風格有助於學習。《Web Standards Solutions》分為16個短章節，每個章節都涵蓋不同的Web標準概念的理論和實踐，並展示了多種解決方案以便於學習。您將學習多列布局、使用圖像替換技術的最佳方法、充分利用表格和列表等等。這種高度模塊化的方法使您能夠快速消化、理解和利用Web標準的基本要素。

本書適合網絡開發人員和設計師，他們希望學習基於標準的技術，以改進他們的網站，使其更高效、更易訪問，並在多個瀏覽器和設備之間可轉移使用。