Table of Contents
Preface; How This Book Is Organized; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Using Code Examples; We’d Like to Hear from You; Getting Started; Chapter 1: Where Do I Start?; 1.1 Where Do I Start?; 1.2 What Does a Web Designer Do?; 1.3 What Languages Do I Need to Learn?; 1.4 What Do I Need to Buy?; 1.5 What You’ve Learned; 1.6 Test Yourself; Chapter 2: How the Web Works; 2.1 The Internet Versus the Web; 2.2 Serving Up Your Information; 2.3 A Word About Browsers; 2.4 Web Page Addresses (URLs); 2.5 The Anatomy of a Web Page; 2.6 Putting It All Together; 2.7 Test Yourself; Chapter 3: Some Big Concepts You Need to Know; 3.1 A Dizzying Multitude of Devices; 3.2 Sticking with the Standards; 3.3 Progressive Enhancement; 3.4 Responsive Web Design; 3.5 One Web for All (Accessibility); 3.6 The Need for Speed (Site Performance); 3.7 Test Yourself; HTML Markup for Structure; Chapter 4: Creating a Simple Page: (HTML Overview); 4.1 A Web Page, Step by Step; 4.2 Before We Begin, Launch a Text Editor; 4.3 Step 1: Start with Content; 4.4 Step 2: Give the Document Structure; 4.5 Step 3: Identify Text Elements; 4.6 Step 4: Add an Image; 4.7 Step 5: Change the Look with a Style Sheet; 4.8 When Good Pages Go Bad; 4.9 Validating Your Documents; 4.10 Test Yourself; 4.11 Element Review: Document Structure; Chapter 5: Marking Up Text; 5.1 Paragraphs; 5.2 Headings; 5.3 Lists; 5.4 More Content Elements; 5.5 Organizing Page Content; 5.6 The Inline Element Roundup; 5.7 Generic Elements (div and span); 5.8 Some Special Characters; 5.9 Putting It All Together; 5.10 Test Yourself; 5.11 Element Review: Text; Chapter 6: Adding Links; 6.1 The href Attribute; 6.2 Linking to Pages on the Web; 6.3 Linking Within Your Own Site; 6.4 Targeting a New Browser Window; 6.5 Mail Links; 6.6 Telephone Links; 6.7 Test Yourself; 6.8 Element Review: Links; Chapter 7: Adding Images; 7.1 First, a Word on Image Formats; 7.2 The img Element; 7.3 A Window in a Window; 7.4 Test Yourself; 7.5 Element Review: Images; Chapter 8: Table Markup; 8.1 How Tables Are Used; 8.2 Minimal Table Structure; 8.3 Table Headers; 8.4 Spanning Cells; 8.5 Table Accessibility; 8.6 Wrapping Up Tables; 8.7 Test Yourself; 8.8 Element Review: Tables; Chapter 9: Forms; 9.1 How Forms Work; 9.2 The form Element; 9.3 Variables and Content; 9.4 The Great Form Control Roundup; 9.5 Form Accessibility Features; 9.6 Form Layout and Design; 9.7 Test Yourself; 9.8 Element Review: Forms; Chapter 10: What’s Up, HTML5?; 10.1 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to XHTML 2; 10.2 In the Markup Department; 10.3 Meet the APIs; 10.4 Video and Audio; 10.5 Canvas; 10.6 Final Word; 10.7 Test Yourself; CSS for Presentation; Chapter 11: Cascading Style Sheets Orientation; 11.1 The Benefits of CSS; 11.2 How Style Sheets Work; 11.3 The Big Concepts; 11.4 Moving Forward with CSS; 11.5 Test Yourself; Chapter 12: Formatting Text: (Plus More selectors); 12.1 The Font Properties; 12.2 Changing Text Color; 12.3 A Few More Selector Types; 12.4 Text Line Adjustments; 12.5 Underlines and Other “Decorations”; 12.6 Changing Capitalization; 12.7 Spaced Out; 12.8 Text Shadow; 12.9 Changing List Bullets and Numbers; 12.10 Test Yourself; 12.11 CSS Review: Font and Text Properties; Chapter 13: Colors and Backgrounds: (Plus Even More Selectors and External Style Sheets); 13.1 Specifying Color Values; 13.2 Foreground Color; 13.3 Background Color; 13.4 Playing with Opacity; 13.5 Introducing...Pseudo-Class Selectors; 13.6 Pseudo-Element Selectors; 13.7 Attribute Selectors; 13.8 Background Images; 13.9 The Shorthand background Property; 13.10 Like a Rainbow (Gradients); 13.11 Finally, External Style Sheets; 13.12 Test Yourself; 13.13 CSS Review: Color and Background Properties; Chapter 14: Thinking Inside the Box: (Padding, Borders, and Margins); 14.1 The Element Box; 14.2 Specifying Box Dimensions; 14.3 Padding; 14.4 Borders; 14.5 Margins; 14.6 Assigning Display Roles; 14.7 Adding Drop Shadows to Boxes; 14.8 Test Yourself; 14.9 CSS Review: Basic Box Properties; Chapter 15: Floating and Positioning; 15.1 Normal Flow; 15.2 Floating; 15.3 Positioning Basics; 15.4 Relative Positioning; 15.5 Absolute Positioning; 15.6 Fixed Positioning; 15.7 Test Yourself; 15.8 CSS Review: Floating and Positioning Properties; Chapter 16: Page Layout with CSS; 16.1 Page Layout Strategies; 16.2 Page Layout Techniques; 16.3 Multicolumn Layouts Using Floats; 16.4 Positioned Layout; 16.5 Top-to-Bottom Column Backgrounds; 16.6 Test Yourself; Chapter 17: Transitions, Transforms, and Animation; 17.1 Ease-y Does It (CSS Transitions); 17.2 CSS Transforms; 17.3 Keyframe Animation; 17.4 Test Yourself; 17.5 CSS Review: Transitions, Transforms, and Animation; Chapter 18: CSS Techniques; 18.1 A Clean Slate (CSS Reset); 18.2 Image Replacement Techniques; 18.3 CSS Sprites; 18.4 Styling Forms; 18.5 Styling Tables; 18.6 Basic Responsive Web Design; 18.7 Wrapping Up Style Sheets; 18.8 Test Yourself; 18.9 CSS Review: Table Properties; JavaScript for Behaviors; Chapter 19: Introduction to JavaScript; 19.1 What Is JavaScript?; 19.2 Adding JavaScript to a Page; 19.3 The Anatomy of a Script; 19.4 The Browser Object; 19.5 Events; 19.6 Putting It All Together; 19.7 Test Yourself; Chapter 20: Using JavaScript; 20.1 Meet the DOM; 20.2 Polyfills; 20.3 JavaScript Libraries; 20.4 Big Finish; 20.5 Test Yourself; Creating Web Graphics; Chapter 21: Web Graphics Basics; 21.1 Image Sources; 21.2 Meet the Formats; 21.3 Image Size and Resolution; 21.4 Working with Transparency; 21.5 Introduction to SVG; 21.6 Summing Up Images; 21.7 Test Yourself; Chapter 22: Lean and Mean Web Graphics; 22.1 General Image Optimization Strategies; 22.2 Optimizing GIFs; 22.3 Optimizing JPEGs; 22.4 Optimizing PNGs; 22.5 Optimize to File Size; 22.6 Optimization in Review; 22.7 Test Yourself; Answers; Chapter 1: Where Do I Start?; Chapter 2: How the Web Works; Chapter 3: Some Big Concepts You Need to Know; Chapter 4: Creating a Simple Page (HTML Overview); Chapter 5: Marking Up Text; Chapter 6: Adding Links; Chapter 7: Adding Images; Chapter 8: Basic Table Markup; Chapter 9: Forms; Chapter 10: What’s Up, HTML5?; Chapter 11: CSS Orientation; Chapter 12: Formatting Text; Chapter 13: Colors and Backgrounds; Chapter 14: Thinking Inside the Box; Chapter 15: Floating and Positioning; Chapter 16: Page Layout with CSS; Chapter 17: Transitions, Transforms, and Animation; Chapter 18: CSS Techniques; Chapter 19: Introduction to JavaScript; Chapter 20: Using JavaScript; Chapter 21: Web Graphics Basics; Chapter 22: Lean and Mean Web Graphics; CSS3 Selectors; Colophon;
