Impeccable Web Design - Enhancing Website Flexibility and Adaptability Using XHTML and CSS

Author: Eric DeLony
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: ★New work from Web design master Dan Cederholm ★Amazon's five-star bestseller ★Provides design strategies based on Web standards ★Full-color printing, easy to use and learn
A website, no matter how visually beautiful or content-rich, is not truly successful if it cannot adapt to various browsing situations and cater to the widest possible user base. This book offers Web standards-based design strategies to help you create highly flexible, readable, and user-controlled websites. Each chapter begins by analyzing an example, explaining how to replace bloated, redundant code with concise HTML and CSS to create websites with extremely fast loading speeds and high adaptability. Then, the book combines all the page components discussed in each chapter to create a single-page template.
Main Content:
- Use keywords and percentages to set the size of page text, allowing users to control it.
- Provide a site navigation bar that can adapt to any size of text or any amount of content.
- Use floating objects to achieve a column effect.
- Ensure that page content remains readable even if images or CSS are missing.
- Separate the appearance from data tables and redefine it with CSS.
- Create a page layout that can be freely expanded or shrunk.