Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML - by Craig Cook & David Schultz (Paperback)

About the Book

Incorporating practical examples that will show designers how to structure their data correctly using XHTML, along with styling and layout basics using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), this forward-thinking book contains the featured code and techniques that are standards compliant and demonstrate best practices.

Book Synopsis

Why another HTML book? The answer is that web development has changed with the advent of web standards, meaning that many old books are now obsolete. All the code and techniques contained within this book are strictly standards compliant and best practice, so the reader is not taught outdated, bad techniques, and their web pages will work properly in most web browsers, be lean and small in file size, accessible to web users with disabilities, and easily located by search engines such as Google. Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML uses practical examples to show readers how to structure data correctly using (X)HTML, and the basics of styling it and laying it out using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS, ) and adding dynamic behavior to it using JavaScript...as quickly as possible. It is also useful to more experienced web developers, with comprehensive reference tables at the back of the book.

Review Quotes

From the reviews:

"After reading this book, an average reader should be able to create a reasonably attractive Web page ... . The book explains the creation of Web pages using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XTML), cascading style sheets (CSS), and JavaScript. The book is concise and easy to read ... . Overall, I liked this book, and feel that it could be used in a general survey class on Web design and programming." (J. Miller, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2008)