Présentation de l'éditeur
Web Desigrn in a Nutsbell contains the nitty-gritty on everything you need to know to design web pages. It's the good stuff, without the fluff, written and organized so that answers can be found quickly. This completely revised and expanded second edition is chock-full of information about the wide range of front-end technologies and techniques from which web designers and authors must draw. Web Design in a Nutsbell is an excellent reference for HTMI, 4.01 tags (including tables, frames, forets, color, and Cascading Style Sheets), with special attention given to browser support, platform idiosyncrasies, and standards. You'll also find lots of updated information on using graphics, multimedia, audio and video, and advanced technologies such as Dynamic HTML, JavaScript, and XML, and there are new chapters on XHTML, WML, and SMIL. This book is an indispensable tool for web designers and authors of all levels. The second edition of Web Design in a Nutsbell includes: Discussions of the web environnent, including monitors and browsers, printing from the Web, accessibility, and internationalization ; A complete reference to HTML, and Server Side Includes, including up-to-date browser support (Netscape 6, IE 5.5, and Opera 5) for evety tag and attributs ; Updated chapters on creating GIF, animated GIF, JPEG, and PNG graphics, including designing with the Web Palette ; Information on multimedia and interactivity, including audio, video, Flash 5 and Sluxkwave, and a new chapter on SMIL ; A revised tutorial and reference on Cascading Style Sheets ; Appendixes detailing HTML, tags, attributes, deprecated tags, proprietary tags, CSS compatibility and support, and character entities.
Biographie de l'auteur
Jennifer Niederst was one of the first Web designers. As the designer of O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial Web site, she has been designing for the Web since 1993. Since then, she has been working almost exclusively on the Web, first as creative director of Songline Studios (a subsidiary of O'Reilly) where she designed the original interface for WebReview (webreview.com), and as a freelance designer and consultant since 1996. She is the author of Designing for the Web (O'Reilly, 1996), and has taught Web design at the Massachusetts College of Art and the Interactive Factory in Boston, MA. She has spoken at major design and Internet events including the GRAFILL conference (Geilo, Norway), Seybold Seminars, and the W3C International Expo. You can visit her site at http://www.littlechair.com/ or send her email
[email protected].
