The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design

Table of contents

1. Title
2. Dedication
3. Contents at a Glance
4. Contents
5. About the Authors
6. About the Technical Reviewer
7. About the Cover Image Artist
8. Acknowledgments
9. Introduction
10. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Web Design
    1. A brief history of the Internet
    2. Why create a website?
    3. Audience requirements
    4. Web design overview
    5. Introducing HTML5
    6. Introducing CSS
    7. Creating boilerplates
    8. Working with website content
11. Chapter 2: Web Page Essentials
    1. Starting with the essentials
    2. HTML vs. XHTML
    3. Document defaults
    4. The head section
    5. The body section
    6. Web page backgrounds
    7. Closing your document
    8. Naming your files
    9. Commenting your work
    10. Quickly testing your code
    11. Web page essentials checklist
12. Chapter 3: Working With Type
    1. An introduction to typography
    2. Styling text the old-fashioned way (or, why we hate font tags)
    3. A new beginning: semantic markup
    4. Styling text using CSS
    5. Working with lists
13. Chapter 4: Working With Images
    1. Introduction
    2. Color theory
    3. Choosing formats for images
    4. Common web image gaffes
    5. Working with images in HTML
    6. Using CSS when working with images
14. Chapter 5: Using Links and Creating Navigation
    1. Introduction to web navigation
    2. Navigation types
    3. Creating and styling web page links
    4. Absolute links
    5. Links and images
    6. Enhancing links with JavaScript
    7. Creating navigation bars
    8. The dos and don’ts of web navigation
15. Chapter 6: Tables: How Nature (and the W3C) Intended
    1. The great table debate
    2. How tables work
    3. Creating accessible tables
    4. Styling a table
    5. Tables for layout
16. Chapter 7: Page Layouts with CSS
    1. Layout for the Web
    2. Workflow for CSS layouts
    3. CSS layouts: a single box
    4. Nesting boxes: boxouts
    5. Advanced layouts with multiple boxes and columns
    6. Scrollable content areas
17. Chapter 8: Getting User Feedback
    1. Introducing user feedback
    2. Working with forms
    3. CSS styling and layout for forms
    4. Sending feedback
    5. A layout for contact pages
    6. Using microformats to enhance contact information
    7. Contact details structure redux
18. Chapter 9: Dealing with Browser Quirks
    1. The final test
    2. Weeding out common errors
    3. A browser test suite
    4. Dealing with Internet Explorer bugs
    5. Supporting legacy browsers
19. Chapter 10: Putting Everything Together
    1. Putting the pieces together
    2. Managing style sheets
    3. Creating a portfolio layout
    4. Creating a business website
    5. Creating a blog layout
    6. Working with style sheets for print
20. Appendix A: An HTML5 reference
    1. Standard attributes
    2. Event attributes
    3. HTML5 elements and attributes
21. Appendix B: Web Color Reference
    1. Color values
    2. Color names
22. Appendix C: ENTITIES reference
    1. Characters used in HTML5
    2. Punctuation characters and symbols
    3. Characters for European languages
    4. Currency signs
    5. Mathematical, technical, and Greek characters
    6. Arrows, lozenge, and card suits
    7. Converting the nonstandard Microsoft set
23. Appendix D: CSS Reference
    1. The CSS box model
    2. Common CSS values
    3. CSS properties and values
    4. Basic selectors
    5. Pseudo-classes
    6. Pseudo-elements
    7. CSS boilerplates and management
24. Index