Brilliant HTML and CSS

Brilliant HTML & CSS is a visual quick reference book that teaches all that you need to know to create clean, forward-looking, standards-compliant, accessible Web sites using HTML & CSS. It will give you a solid grounding on the theory, coding skills, and best practices needed to use HTML & CSS to build sophisticated web pages – a complete reference for the beginner and intermediate user.

Summary

Brilliant HTML and CSS provides beginning Web designers and developers with the necessary theory, coding skills, and best practices to create clean, forward-looking, standards-compliant, accessible Web sites. The text reinforces the important distinction between structure and presentation and emphasizes the proper application of HTML tags and CSS properties from the opening chapter. Part I focuses on structural development, while Part II addresses presentation topics, and Part III offers advice about common design and navigation problems and the rationale behind their solutions. Upon finishing this book, a reader with no prior experience in Web design and development will be able to build sophisticated static pages. (An ideal companion to this book would be Brilliant JavaScript.) In keeping with the Brilliant series, the book uses a highly visual, task-based approach to achieve its objectives.

Brilliant Features

• Detailed index and troubleshooting guide to help you find exactly what you need to know

• Each task is presented on one or two pages

• Numbered steps guide you through each task or problem

• Numerous screenshots illustrate each step

• “See Also …” boxes point you to related tasks and information in the book

• “Did you know ?...” sections alert you to relevant expert tips, tricks and advice

 

What you need to know and how to do it

Brilliant guides allow you to find the information that you need easily and without fuss. Using a highly visual, step-by-step approach, Brilliant books will solve your technology problems and guide you through essential tasks, providing you with exactly what you need to know, just when you really need it.

Spend less time reading and more time doing with a visual step-by-step approach to HTML & CSS programming

brilliant HTML & CSS provides quick, easy-to-access information with

• Full colour design throughout
• Detailed Contents to help you find exactly what you need
• Practical tasks presented in short accessible sections
• Numbered steps to guide you through each task
• Numerous example screenshots
• Cross reference boxes pointing you to related tasks in the book, or completed exampled upon the website
• For your information sections alerting you to relevant tips, tricks and advice
• And a Troubleshooting guide to help you sort out the most common problems and queries

Brilliant HTML & CSS will enable you to create accessible, standards-compliant, websites – equipping you with knowledge on theory, coding skills, and best practice needed to build sophisticated Web pages. This book will show you how to

 

·        Understand and use HTML tags and attributes

·        Mark-up text, links, images, tables and forms

·        Get started with CSS

·        Work with Style Sheets and selectors

·        Format basic elements and font styles

·        Start using Web-safe colour in your pages

·        Understand and define Link States

·        Master spacing, borders and element sizing

·        Align and place elements within your page

·        Understand and organise your site structure

·        Perfect your site navigation

·        Take your website live!