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Advanced Professional Web Design: Techniques & Templates
Advanced Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates (CSS & XHTML) is the must-have book for advanced designers who want to expand their skills and improve the quality of their designs. Learning CSS technology and continually improving your design and developer skills is becoming increasingly essential for every Web designer in today's marketplace.
This book teaches designers and developers how to bridge the knowledge gap from XHTML table-based design to full CSS-based design, and master the technologies and techniques needed. But the book isn't just about the theory behind design; it's about putting it into practice right away. It goes well beyond the authors' very successful Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates by providing advanced tools and techniques that teach how e-commerce and shopping carts work, explain the concept of database-driven sites, and show how to create relative sizing designs, among other important topics. The techniques are taught with an emphasis on CSS, including explanations, examples, and templates that go far beyond existing CSS documentation.
CONTENTS:
Preface; Ch. 1 Creating Database-Driven Sites: Terminology; How A Database-Driven Site Works; Global Files Frequently Used Server Side Functionality; Conditional Statements; Loops; Arrays; Variables; E-mailing; Forms; Ch. 2 Examples of Database Functionality Pages: General Page Layout with Includes; General Content Output; Recursive Pages; Mail Form; Dynamic Searches; Looping Content That is Dynamically Linked; Dynamic Menu Items; Ch. 3 Understanding Ecommerce Functionality: How The Ecommerce Process Works; Various Shopping Cart Options; Various Processing Options; How a Shopping Cart Works; Things to Consider; Ch. 4 Creating CSS Designs: CSS Design Versus XHTML Table Design; Linking to CSS Stylesheets; Including Print Stylesheets; Understanding CSS Terminology; Understanding the Namespace; Understanding the Box Model; When to Use Tables; Testing Designs in Various Browsers; Validating Code; Ch. 5 Tips and Tricks: Tantek Hack; Controlling Body Margins; Rendering the Tag Consistently; Not Duplicating Style Names; Nesting Divs; Repeating Background Colors; Repeating Background Image for Main Page; Setting Specific Margins in Lists; Replacing JavaScript Mouseovers; Using Hybrid CSS/XHTML Designs for Footers; Test Continually (open various in consistent order); Photoshop Tutorials; Replacing Photos; Resizing Photos; Changing Colors; Undoing/Redoing Actions; Ch. 6 Creating Relative Sizing Designs: Pros and Cons of Relative Sizing Versus Fixed; XHTML Example; CSS Example; Ch. 7 Case Study: Simple CSS Design; Ch. 8 Case Study: More Advanced CSS; Ch. 9 Case Study: Advanced CSS Design; Ch. 10 Customizing the Templates in the Book; Designs: CSS Designs (20 designs); XHTML Designs (80 designs); Signature Designs (10 designs); Pros and Cons of Using Signatures; E-newsletter Designs (10 Designs); Pros and Cons of E-newsletters; About the CD-ROM; Index
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