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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Written by the author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web , this book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. It discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that make unlimited findability possible, and explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society.

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.

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.

No matter how visually appealing or content-packed a Web site may be, if it's not adaptable to a variety of situations and reaching the widest possible audience, it isn't really succeeding. In Bulletproof Web Desing, author and Web designer extraordinaire, Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control--key components

Puts what you need to know about HTML and XHTML at your fingertips. This work shows you how to: Use style sheets to control your document's appearance; Work with programmatically generated HTML; Create tables, both simple and complex; Design and build interactive forms and dynamic documents; Insert images, sound files, video, Java applets, and more

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.

Charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world - in which everything has a place - are upended. This book shows how people can reap rewards from the rise of digital knowledge.

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.

Updated to cover the changes in Apache's latest release, 2.0, as well as Apache 1.3, this useful guide discusses how to obtain, set up, secure, modify, and troubleshoot the Apache software on both Unix and Windows systems.

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.

Google universe includes features and services such as Google Maps, Google Talk, and Google Desktop.

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.

A guide for those who want to take their Web site(s) to next level and make usability a priority. Through the hundreds of real-world user tests and contemporary Web site critiques, it helps you learn about site design, user experience and usability testing, navigation and search capabilities, old guidelines and prioritizing usability issues.