Web Design In A Nutshell

Get ready to create your Web pages. This book has it all and is written in such a way that you will be able to find what you are looking for very quickly. When you find what you are looking for, you will be able to apply it to your page in a matter of minutes. This is because the book is so easy to read and follow along with that anyone should be able to create a We site using it.

This is not an HTML primer. That being said I want to tell you that the chapters that go over HTML, in this book, are very good and do show you how to lay out your page and your code so your pages will work and look great.

The chapter on using tables is very comprehensive. You will find tags here that you may not have seen in some of the other Web design books. There are so many things you can do with tables to make your pages look different. When you are through with this chapter you will know them all and have some really great looking pages as a result.

As with the chapter on tables, I think you will also be equally impressed with the chapter on frames. Frames are usually used for navigational purposes. They help your site's readers find their way around your site. There are many different ways to design them by adding links, JavaScript, scrolling and much more. Here you will learn to do these things to make your site more user friendly.

You will also learn all the other things you need to design a Web page. There is a chapter on creating forms, a section about adding color, and chapters for adding images, text and links. On top of all this you will also learn some of the more advanced things you need to know if you want to create really great sites.

Cascading Style Sheets are becoming very popular. No book on Web design would be complete without a chapter on how to create them. This book has such a chapter. Then you will go on to learn SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language), JavaScript, DHTML (Dynamic HTML), XML (Extensible Markup Language), XHTML, WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) and WML (Wireless Markup Language). There are also several chapters on adding graphics, audio and video and the different kinds of each.

Toward the end of the book are many different sections to help you find the things you need in a simple fashion. You will find here: HTML elements, attributes, deprecated HTML tags, proprietary tags, CSS support chart, character entities and a glossary.

This is a book you can not do without. Keep it on your desk as a quick reference when you are working on your Web site. The information in this book is invaluable to the modern Webmaster. Whether you are a beginner or have been designing sites for years, this book will help you at every step of the way.