Chapter 1 Hypertext at the Core
The Web Without Links
URIs

Chapter 2 Working with HTML Markup
HTML Syntax
Rendering Modes, Flavors of HTML, and Document Type Declarations
Beautiful Parts: Universal Attributes
Separating Content, Structure, Presentation, and Behavior
Browsers, Parsing, and Rendering

Chapter 3 CSS Overview
Connecting Stylesheets to HTML Documents
Choosing the Elements You Want to Style: Writing Selectors
Rule Conflicts, Priority, and Precedence
CSS Property and Value Survey
CSS Units
Key CSS Layout Properties

Chapter 4 Developing a Healthy Relationship with Standards
The Broad Landscape of Web-Related Standards
Why Web Standards?
Taking the Middle Road: Standards-Friendliness

Chapter 5 Effective Style and Structure
The Four Habits of Effective Stylists
CSS Zen and the Stylist’s Experience
Information Architecture and Web Usability

Chapter 6 Solving the Puzzle of CSS Layout
The CSS Box Model and Element Size Control
Quirks Mode and Strict Mode
auto Values
Margins, Borders, and Padding
Element Flow
Using the display Property to Change an Element’s Flow
The float and clear Properties
Implementing Multicolumn Layouts
CSS Positioning Properties
The visibility and z-index Properties
Obtaining Precise Navigation Source Order and Layout
Layout Types and Canvas Grids

Chapter 7 Working with Lists
Ordered and Unordered Lists
Other Uses for Lists
Styling Navigation Elements
Definition Lists

Chapter Headings, Hyperlinks, Inline Elements, and Quotations
Headings and Good Writing
Styling Heading Elements
Link Markup
Styling Links
Adding Semantic Value with Inline Elements
Quotations

Chapter 9 Colors and Backgrounds
Color Theory and Web Color Practice
CSS Backgrounds
Composing Background Images
Bitmapped Copy and Fahrner Image Replacement
Reducing Server Load with Sprites

Chapter 10 (Data) Tables
The Disadvantages of Layout Tables
The Parts of a Data Table
Composing Cells
Table Headers, Footers, and Heading Cells

Chapter 11 Images and Multimedia
Replaced Elements
Preparing Images for Production
Image Production
Working with Color Profiles
Image Optimization
Publishing Images
Styling Images and Plug-in Content
Adding Motion and Sound: Using SWFObject to Insert Flash Videos and Presentations
Inserting Unwrapped Multimedia

Chapter 12 Web Typography
A Brief History of Letterforms
A Visual Glossary of Typography
Aliasing and Anti-Aliasing
Type Styles, Readability, and Legibility
Sizing Type
Working with Typefaces and Fonts
Character Encoding in Brief
Creating Balanced Type Treatments
Typographical Miscellany in CSS
The Practice of Good Web Typography

Chapter 13 Clean and Accessible Forms
Building Effective Forms
Assessment and Structure
Basic Form Structure, Presentation, and Behavior
Prototyping and Layout
Required Fields and Other Submission Constraints
Creating Accessible Forms
Form Features in HTML5

Chapter 14 The Bad Parts
The Numbing Nature of Internet Explorer (Especially IE 6)
Systemic Ugliness
HTML's Bad Neighborhoods and Cul-de-Sacs
CSS Travesties
The Awful Parts
Picking Up the Pieces

Appendix URIs, Client-Server Architecture, and HTTP
The Underlying Client-Server Architecture
What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP
MIME Types, in Brief
Controlling Request Volume

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