If you’ve ever been curious about any of the multitude ofinternet acronyms, the web technologies they represent, and howthey can benefit you, this book is a great place to start. Thisbook covers all the necessary topics to get up and running with HTML, XHTML, and CSS while offering readers a guide to modern, standards-based design. Key tasks covered in the book includesetting up a Web page, reducing image resolution, creating radiobuttons, adding a hit counter, adding an embedded sound, addingcontent from other sites such as integrating a blog and creating an RSS feed. Large topics are broken into smaller, more approachablesub-topics that are clearly explained on two pages eliminating theback and forth page flipping required in other references. Arrangedso that skills build progressively throughout the book coupled withbold page headers it is simple to flip through and easily find anysection or topic you are looking for. Understandable withstraightforward terms that avoid intimidating and unexplainedjargon, this is a book that will benefit complete novices andadvanced users alike.While primarily focused on the technologies outlined in thetitle, this book goes on to provide tips on integrating with Google, Flickr, social bookmark sites and even creating andimplementing RSS feeds. Rest assured, each of these technologies isexplained with the benefits of each outlined. A serious resourcethat quickly and concisely gets to the point, this book helps yougain real skills that will have you online in short order. Best ofall, you can be confident that you are doing so the right way.HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint(TM) fordesigning effective Web pages offers visual learners a solidreference that employs straight forward examples to teach you tocreate and design Web pages with impact. ‘Apply It’ and ‘Extra’sidebars highlight useful tips and high-resolution screen shotsclearly illustrate each task while succinct explanations walk youthrough the examples. The associated website contains all theneeded code to learn HTML.
About the author
Rob Huddleston has been developing Web pages andapplications since 1994, and has been an instructor since 1999, teaching Web and graphic design to thousands of students. Hisclients have included the United States Bureau of Land Management;the United States Patent and Trademark Office; the State of California and many other federal, city and county agencies; the United States Army and Air Force; Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, Wells Fargo, Safeway, and Coca-Cola; software companiesincluding Oracle, Intuit, and Autodesk; the University of California, San Francisco State University, the University of Southern California; and hundreds of small businesses andnon-profit agencies. Rob is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Certified Expert, and Certified Developer, is an Adobe User Group Manager, and was named as an Adobe Community Expert for hisvolunteer work answering user questions in online forums. Rob livesin northern California with his wife and two children.Rob is the author of XML: Your visual blueprint to creatingexpert websites using XML, CSS, XHTML, and XSLT, published by Wiley Publishing in 2007. You can visit Rob’s blog atwww.robhuddleston.com.
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