Provides insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. This book discusses why people really leave Web sites; making sites usable and accessible; and, surviving executive design whims. It offers help for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing.

Part tutorial and part reference, this book helps you develop new JavaScript skills by building on your basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and the Web in general. It includes scripting Flash with JavaScript, HTTP and Ajax, DOM, SVG, XML, and web services and also serves as a detailed reference for the more experienced web developers.

Provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a review of the various aspects of CSS 2.1. This book covers Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's improved browser, and also includes content on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more.

Shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale and maintainable web sites that are easy to navigate. This book discusses blueprints, wireframes and the role of diagrams in the design phase. It addresses emerging technologies while maintaining its focus on fundamentals.

Covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers. This work demonstrates how web standards are driving search engine friendliness ( findability ) and Web 2.0 applications that have reinvigorated the medium and the online marketplace. It also includes techniques to make CSS layouts work better across multiple browsers.

Aims to teach you to develop dynamic, secure, commerical Web sites. This fourth edition reflects the changing landscape of MySQL and PHP. It incorporates changes in the 5.1 specs of PHP and MySQL. It also covers topics such as Ajax, social networking sites, security concerns, and the PEAR repository of PHP extensions and applications.

Provides a variety of projects that teach you how to use CSS and why particular methods were chosen. This work also features a web site which includes all the files needed to complete the tutorials.

Deals with content and page design, designing for ease of navigation and users with disabilities. This book presents a series of principles which show: that web users want to find what they're after quickly; and, that if they don't know what they're after, they want to browse quickly and access information they come across in a logical manner.

This text puts a fast-paced introduction, detailed reference section, and quick reference guide to each technology all within easy reach. It aims to provide useful information a Webmaster needs daily, whatever the technology, including: HTML; CSS; XML; CGI; JavaScript; HTTP; PHP; and Apache.

Offers information that web designers and developers need to implement CSS across various browsers. This book includes: an introduction to the concepts of CSS; an alphabetical reference to various CSS 2.1 selectors and properties; and a chart displaying information about CSS support for various style elements and their cross-browser compatibility.

Provides an overview of the requirements of designing for the Web. This book can be used as a reference for (X)HTML and Cascading Style Sheets.

Filled with information on web specifications and browser features, this title presents a resource for HTML, XHTML, CSS, Document Object Model (DOM), and JavaScript development. It also provides references for the tags, attributes, objects, properties, methods, and events of HTML, XHTML, CSS, DOM, and core JavaScript.

When it comes to creating websites, the PHP scripting language is truly a red-hot property. This book contains chapters that show you how to generate dynamic images, create PDF files, and parse XML files with PHP. It offers coverage of common PHP web application techniques, such as form processing and validation, session tracking, and cookies.

Provides hundreds of practical examples with CSS code recipes that you can use to format your web pages. This work is arranged in a quick-lookup format for easy reference. It also explains the behavior of browsers.

Proving that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this work uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create progressive CSS-based Web sites. It uses the Zen Garden sites as examples of how CSS design techniques and approaches can be applied to specific Web challenges.

Ruby 1.9 is the latest version of Ruby. It has many compelling features, including multinationalization support, new block scoping, and better performance. At the same time, the current Ruby 1.8 is still being maintained and is widely used.

This text is based around the rich offerings of PEAR. Several of these, including the Template package and the database-independent query API, are fully integrated into examples and thoroughly described in the text. In addition, through a complex sample application all the important techniques of dynamic content are introduced.

This handy guide offers a complete overview of the core Java language and client-side scripting environment, as well as quick-reference material on core and client-side objects, methods, and properties.

Includes 10 projects designed to encourage you to incorporate CSS into your sites and take advantage of the design flexibility, increased accessibility, decreased page weight, and cool visual effects CSS offers. It covers various topics which include converting an HTML-based design to a pure positioning layout; styling a photo gallery; and others.

The co-creators of CSS explain the hows and whys, and ins and outs of the visual formatting language. It a guide to CSS, today's indispensable standard for controlling the appearance of any Web or XML document. Apart from showing how to use every significant CSS 1 and 2.x feature, this book includes topics like Mastering essential CSS concepts.