The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. An Introduction to Web Design

   • Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos

   Pages 1-28

3. Web Page Essentials

   • Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos

   Pages 29-61

4. Working With Type

   • Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos

   Pages 63-118

5. Working With Images

   • Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos

   Pages 119-144

6. Using Links and Creating Navigation

   • Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos

   Pages 145-226

7. Tables: How Nature (and the W3C) Intended

   • Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos

   Pages 227-248

8. Page Layouts with CSS

   • Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos

   Pages 249-306

9. Getting User Feedback

   • Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos

   Pages 307-342

10. Dealing with Browser Quirks

    • Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos

    Pages 343-355

11. Putting Everything Together

    • Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos

    Pages 357-386

12. Back Matter

    Pages 387-495

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The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design has been fully revised from its critically acclaimed first edition, and updated to include all of the new features and best practices of HTML5 and CSS3. This book reveals all you'll need to design great web sites that are standards-compliant, usable, and aesthetically pleasing, but it won't overwhelm you with waffle, theory, or obscure details!

You will find The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design invaluable at any stage of your career, with its mixture of practical tutorials and reference material. Beginners will quickly pick up the basics, while more experienced web designers and developers will keep returning to the book again and again to read up on techniques they may not have used for a while, or to look up properties, attributes and other details. This book is destined to become a close friend, adopting a permanent place on your desk.

The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design starts off with a brief introduction to the web and web design, before diving straight in to HTML5 and CSS3 basics, reusing code, and other best practices you can adopt. The book then focuses on the most important areas of a successful web site: typography, images, navigation, tables, layouts, forms and feedback (including ready-made PHP scripts) and browser quirks, hacks and bugs.

The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design is completely up-to-date, covering support of the newest standards in all the latest browsers, including IE 9 and Firefox 4. The last chapter of the book provides several case studies to dissect and learn from, including all the most popular web site archetypes—a blog, a store front, a corporate home page, and an online gallery. You'll also appreciate several detailed reference appendices covering CSS, HTML, color references, entities, and more—any details you need to look up will be close at hand.

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