HTML Mastery does all that and more, showing all of the HTML tags available, including less commonly used ones, where and how to use them, and clever styling and scripting techniques that you can employ to take advantage of them on your web site. It is totally standards compliant, up to date with modern web design techniques. Forms and tables are looked in particular detail, as there is so much that can be done with them.
In addition, the book also looks at some of the advanced semantic tools that look to further improve the usability and semantic value of your sites—an entire chapter is devoted to Microformats, and a nod is given to XHTML 2.0 and Web Applications 1.0—web standards of the future.
Summary of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Getting Started
- Chapter 2: Using the Right Tag for the Right Job
- Chapter 3: Table Mastery
- Chapter 4: Form Mastery
- Chapter 5: Purpose-Built Semantics: Microformats and Other Stories
- Chapter 6: Recognizing Semantics
- Chapter 7: Looking Ahead: XHTML 2.0 and Web Applications 1.0
- Appendix A: XHTML As XML
- Appendix B: Frames, and How to Avoid Them
Who is this book for?
The book is aimed at web designers and developers who have already mastered the basics of HTML and web design, but want to take their markup further, making it leaner and more semantically rich, for a more efficient, more usable/accessible web site.
Conclusion
In "HTML Mastery" the author covers HTML in an exhaustive manner. He will teach and discuss HTML in both terminology and definition and thus make you thinking far beyond HTML basics.
The book starts off with a much needed look at the terminology (tags, elements, attributes, inline, block, etc) that describes the pieces and parts of HTML. The author's choice to include (X)HTML terminology early on is a valuable look at the words that describe the language. This terminology chapter aids the reader's understanding of the author's words throughout the rest of the book.
With a base of (X)HTML terminology established, the author moves through the rest of the book hitting all the appropriate areas of discussion for the HTML professional (html or xhtml, semantics, professional tag practices, forms, and tables). The author can certainly be credited with expanding the information, and thus continuing the education of web professionals.
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"What tags you use to mark up changes to your document?"
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